483.24 - Quality of Life
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Based on the comprehensive assessment of a resident and consistent with the resident’s needs and choices, the facility must provide the necessary care and services to ensure that a resident's abilities in activities of daily living do not diminish unless circumstances of the individual's clinical condition demonstrate that such diminution was unavoidable.
Source: CMS State Operations Manual, Appendix PP | 42 CFR § 483.24