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
- Webinar: If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you!
Join us on October 23rd from 12:00 to 1:00 to hear about the Eden Alternative cultural transformation at the Osgoode Care Centre in Metcalfe, Ontario. To register click here - Recording: Social Connection and Quality of Life
On September 18th, nearly 100 persons registered for the webinar, “Social connection and quality of life: The Sonnet Study”. The participants learned about a research project that is investigating how …Continue reading “Recording: Social Connection and Quality of Life”
- New model of care coming to long-term care home in Thunder BayJudy Walters, behavioural support and butterfly lead at Pioneer Ridge Long-Term Care and Senior Services, says it’s important to keep in mind that long-term care homes are where residents …
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