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
- Reminder: Please register for webinar on Nov 13: 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
- 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
- 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