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The draft can be viewed by going to the CMS website. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/mds30/ On that page there's an area called Development. Click on Development, Draft version of MDS 3.0 and you'll go to a pdf file. I love the proposed changes in the Activity section which can be found of page 28. Enjoy! Wendy

Hi...My backround was with children at summer camp. I went to college to be a Park Ranger, so I was a Recreation and Park Administration major. I fully planned on being outdoors. A twist of fate and a lost bet, turned me toward Therapeutics. My friend who had never worked with kids said she'd help me with my Girl Scout troop if I'd volunteer with her geriatrics group. That was my first exposure to the delights of working with the elderly. I ended up working at a nursing home part time during college as an evening/weekend Activity Assistant. I finished my degree in Recreation but my emphasis was in Therapeutics and concentration was in Geriatrics. I worked as an Activity Assistant/SSD for a year and then got a position as an AD which I kept for three years. I moved to California from Illinois and became a consultant in 1982. I taught the AD course in CA for 11 years and am still consulting in the So Cal area. All because I lost a bet :-D The classmate that I lost the bet to left the field and is working for Verizon in FL. We're still in touch.