Sharing the “stuff of life” at a Butterfly Care Home in the U.K
Do you know what the main difference is between Ontario’s institutional long-term care home model and the U.K.’s Butterfly Model just adopted by Malton Village Long-Term Care Home in Peel, Ontario?
Relationships, kindness and compassion
Sound familiar? That’s because the Butterfly Model is similar to the Hogewey and Eden Alternative models which were highlighted in previous blog posts.
- All of these 3 models allow time for staff to develop relationships with residents and families. Our current medical model of care in Ontario does not.
- The Butterfly model stresses a departure from “a culture of care that believes the best facilities can do for dementia patients is provide physical safety and hold them in a building” to “a transformation in the way people are cared for, with a focus on people’s emotions and the creation of homelike environments and everyday activities people enjoyed earlier in life”
After the success of its one year pilot project, Malton Village Long-Term Care Centre in Peel has become the first Butterfly Care Home in Ontario. Read more here.
Once the election is over, contact your MPPs again to urge them to consider these success stories. All the MPP posts are listed as vacant until the election is over.
AND PLEASE – encourage 3 or more of your contacts to “follow” our blog. Long-term care home residents need our help!