Understanding an older adult’s preferences is a cornerstone for person-centered care. On this page, you’ll find an array of resources to help your community or program establish a system to assess the preferences of older adults receiving long-term services and supports.
Getting Started with Preference Assessment
Resources to familiarize you and your community with preferences
Why Preferences Matter
View this three-minute video to learn why preferences matter to promote quality of life for older adults receiving long-term services and supports.
Why Preferences Matter
What is the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI)?
This tip sheet introduces the PELI and explains how to use the tool in long-term services and supports. Learn about benefits of the PELI and its development as a scientifically validated assessment questionnaire recognized by leading organizations.
What is the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI)?
PELI—How to Get Started
This tip sheet explains how to launch a PELI team and begin using the tool to learn about the preferences of older adults in your community as well as to personalize and improve the quality of daily care.
PELI—How to Get Started
Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory: FAQs
This webinar introduces the PELI-Can project for Ohio nursing homes, and presents tips and resources to assist in using the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) to learn about resident […]
Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory: FAQs
Sample PELI Policy
This sample policy can be adapted to formalize how your organization will use the PELI.
Sample PELI Policy
Top Preferences Across LTSS Settings
What are the top preferences of older adults receiving long-term services and supports? Do preferences differ by care setting? The answers to these questions provide a starting point to enhance person-centered care.
Top Preferences Across LTSS Settings
Preference Assessment Questionnaires
Scientifically validated and flexible Preferences for Everyday Living (PELI) questionnaires
PELI-Nursing Home Full Version 2.0
This PELI questionnaire consists of 72 questions asking older adults about their preferences in five areas of day-to-day life: social contact, personal development, leisure, living environment and daily routine. Providers […]
PELI-Nursing Home Full Version 2.0
PELI-Nursing Home-MDS 3.0 Section F-Version 2.0
This PELI questionnaire asks nursing home residents about 16 preferences for daily living that are consistent with the CMS Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0. The PELI supplements the MDS by delving into specific aspects of resident preferences.
PELI-Nursing Home-MDS 3.0 Section F-Version 2.0
ComPASS-16 2.0 Printable Questionnaire
If you don’t have ready access to a laptop or tablet, you can print the ComPASS-16 2.0 interview questionnaire by downloading and printing the paper version of the questionnaire below. […]
ComPASS-16 2.0 Printable Questionnaire
PELI PAL Cards: 8-Item MDS 3.0 Section F Interview
This version of the PELI PAL Card Interview contains the eight MDS activity and leisure items with additional follow-up questions. It should be noted that all previous PAL Card work has been done with the full 34-item PELI PAL Card Interview and it may be difficult to create a PAL Card from the limited information this version provides.
PELI PAL Cards: 8-Item MDS 3.0 Section F Interview
Rainbow PELI-NH-Full Version 2.0
This PELI questionnaire consists of 72 questions asking older adults about their preferences for daily life. The Rainbow PELI contains questions that specifically address the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older adults living in nursing homes.
Rainbow PELI-NH-Full Version 2.0
PELI Root Version (Preferences for Routine & Personal Care)
This PELI questionnaire asks individuals about 19 preferences for daily routine and personal care. This questionnaire is intended to be used to create the Daily Routine Preference Communication tool: ROOT […]
PELI Root Version (Preferences for Routine & Personal Care)
Mandarin Chinese PELI
This PELI questionnaire consists of 72 questions asking older adults about their preferences in five areas of day-to-day life in Mandarin Chinese. This questionnaire has been forward translated from English […]
Mandarin Chinese PELI
Korean PELI-K
What is the PELI-K?The PELI-K is the first tool specifically designed to assess the daily living preferences of Korean older adults. The new assessment instrument is based on the Preferences […]
Korean PELI-K
Conducting PELI Interviews
Guidelines and tips for preference interviews
Interview Tips
This tip sheet provides training “basics” for staff and volunteers who will conduct PELI preference interviews. Learn how to set up and begin interviews, record answers, and offer prompts to encourage full responses. Preference interviews are a chance to get to know individuals better and build meaningful relationships that improve quality of life and quality of care.
Interview Tips
Interviewing Older Adults Using The PELI Video Guide
About the Training Video This viewer’s guide accompanies the Preference-Based Living: Interviewing Older Adults Using the PELI training video developed by the Preference-Based Living team. This 22-minute video serves as […]
Interviewing Older Adults Using The PELI Video Guide
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
This tip sheet introduces a version of the PELI that your organization can adopt to raise awareness and address the unmet needs of LGBTQ+ older adults. Learn how to educate staff about inclusion and cultural sensitivity, as well as ways to implement the Rainbow PELI.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Engaging Family & Staff in Preference Assessment
Resources to help engage staff and family in preference assessment
When You Can’t Ask the Resident: Practice Guidelines for Asking Proxies About Resident Preferences
This webinar discusses how to involve a proxy, such as a family member or friend, for an individual who cannot participate fully in a PELI interview due to cognitive or communication impairment. […]
When You Can’t Ask the Resident: Practice Guidelines for Asking Proxies About Resident Preferences
Working with Proxies
When an older adult is unable to respond to PELI questions due to cognitive or communication limitations, a proxy – a family member or friend who knows the individual well – can help. This tip sheet discusses how to identify, reach out to and collect information from a proxy. Also, learn what to do if a family member or friend is not available to assist with preference assessment.
Working with Proxies
Helping Staff Engage
This tip sheet recommends strategies to build staff commitment in learning about individual preferences, encourage team communication — and most importantly, how to use preference information to enhance each older adult’s daily life. Also, find answers to common staff questions about preference based care.
Helping Staff Engage
Helping Staff Engage in Preference-Based Care
This webinar discusses practical strategies to build staff investment in learning about and fulfilling preferences for people receiving long-term services and supports. Also, the webinar presents related recent research findings […]
Helping Staff Engage in Preference-Based Care
