Long-Term Care

Change LTC Now What does emotion based care look like? Human dignity. Institutions to homes. https://changeltcnow.ca/

Nicknamed the villagers, the residents of privately owned Langley Village (BC) live in a setting where everything is done to recreate a normal living environment. Langley Village was the first village for people living with dementia in Canada.  Institutions to homes.  Change long term care now. https://changeltcnow.ca/

In late January 2025,  CARP Ottawa submitted a letter to the editor, the Ottawa Citizen on the need to fix Ontario’s long-term care home system.  Below is the letter to the editor, published on February 1st, 2025. “I would like to commend Lise Cloutier-Steele for her article on Ontario’s long-neglected long-term care home system. The

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 on the work you are doing to improve the care for residents in Ontario’s Long Term Care Homes (LTCH). Your recent announcement of investing $9 million over three years to train

Judy 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 live, not just where people work, when looking at how to make the space a more familiar environment. Click here to read more