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
- ‘There’s No Place Like Home’
A Green House Dining Room (copied with permission) The National Institute on Aging released its recent report, “There’s No Place Like Home: Why Canada Must Prioritize Small Care Home Models … - Webinar: Champions of Change: From Institutions to Homes
Join us on January 15th from 12:00 to 1:00 to hear about why it is important for LTC Homes to change from institutions to homes, what this change looks like, …Continue reading “Webinar: Champions of Change: From Institutions to Homes”
- Ontario gives green light to training staff in emotion-based care models
Photo courtesy of Jarlette Health Services Dear Minister Kusendova, On behalf of CARP’s Advocacy Working Group on Long Term Care, we are writing to you today to express our congratulations …Continue reading “Ontario gives green light to training staff in emotion-based care models”