Welcome to Change LTC Now, where we advocate for transforming long-term care homes from institutions to homes. This change will enrich the quality of life for residents, families, and staff!
Our Mission
CARP Ottawa’s Advocacy Working Group on Long-term Care (CAWG) has been working with other like-minded provincial and local organizations to influence changing long-term care homes from institutions to homes. This means transitioning from the traditional, medical/task-oriented model of care to a person-centred approach, an approach where 12-16 residents live in a smaller home-like environment , and where residents, staff and families all live with the dignity and respect they deserve. See Institutions to Homes for more details.
CARP Ottawa is a local chapter of the Canadian Association for Retired
Persons – A new Vision for Aging, one of Canada’s largest advocacy
organizations with over 200,000 members, the majority of whom live in
Ontario.
Residents, Staff and Families Need Your Help
Make a difference! YOU – as concerned citizens and informal caregivers, have the power to motivate and champion the innovation needed to change long-term care homes from institutions to homes.
Recent Blog Posts
- Recording: If it doesn’t challenge you, it does not change you!On October 23rd 66 persons registered for the webinar, “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you”, learned about the cultural transformation which took place at the Osgoode Care …
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- Former Minister gives nod to innovative homes
In her recent book, A Physician in the Political Arena, Dr. Merrilee Fullerton lays out her vision of what she had hoped for in reforming the long-term care home system …Continue reading “Former Minister gives nod to innovative homes”
- Webinar: Creating Joyful LTC Homes: The Ireland ExperienceJoin us on November 13th from 12:00 to 1:00 to hear about the Ireland experience of moving toward more home-like, community models of care. To register click here