life of Thompson adult home

Thompson's adult home for physically and mentally disabled adults is run by Harold Thompson and his family. This home has been there since 1999 in Albany Oregon. he knew he wanted to be an adult care homeowner when he was a manager at another care home and he really enjoyed working there with the community and the people in the homes. at his care home, he has six employees, two of whom are his children. 

Harold tries spending about half of the week at the group home and some extra times on the weekends with the guys. they do lots of trips with the homes including going to Florida many amusement parks, san Francisco, zoos, aquariums, seatle, and many more places. Harold took the patients to watch a bike race and helped clean up after the race by picking up all the tossed water bottles. 

a lot of issues he handles at this home are staffing challenges, behavioral issues, lots of documentation that are required by the state and county, and serving medically fragile populations. he has six patients who live in the house full time with many different disabilities from fully functioning to not. 

there are a lot of rules and regulations of having an adult home, there are of lot of training requirement for the staff and employees. everyone who works there must go threw a background check, a basic knowledge test and they have to swear to notify the authorities about any abuse. all significant incidents must be reported through a state website and verified by the case manager. 

some regulations are that windows and doors must be safe for each resident and updated regularly. a yearly plan has to be developed for each resident and updated regularly. all medications must be locked up and signed for each time it is given. the whole home is required to have fire extinguishers, smoke detector alarms, a floor plan, house rules, a menu, and staff schedule.

watching Harold Thompson working with the patients was very enlightening to watch how to take care of people with many conditions and many different ages. I really liked following Harold around and asking questions about how he wanted to start this business in the first place.