Quality of Life in Long-term Care - What Will It Take?
Hear the radio interview with Dr. Penny MacCourt, ARRBC Chair, speaking about the development and ongoing work of ARRC. Penny was a featured guest on Senior Moments, a CFIS radio show (93.1 FM) broadcast from Prince George and hosted by Dawn Hemingway, an ARRC leadership team member
Listen Here: Seniors Moments Interview
A Monthly Webinar Series facilitated by ARRC (Action for Reform of Residential Care) B.C.
June 2023 - June 2024
All Webinars 7.00 - 8:00 pm
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Description |
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| July 26 | Lessons Learned in Therapeutic Recreation During COVID-19 | Jenna Johnstone- BC Therapeutic Recreation Association | This webinar will discuss, from the perspective of front-line staff, how COVID revealed and exacerbated the impact of system issues on recreation services and resident quality of life, and what needs to change.
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| Aug 23 | What’s for Dinner? Unpacking Food and Nutrition in Long Term Care | Shauna Prouten, RD IFNCP - Gerontology Nutrition Society BC |
In this thought-provoking webinar, Shauna will use the example of a resident in care to highlight how the current Long Term Care Regulations in BC fail to support residents in accessing consistent, high quality, nutritious food that meets their health and cultural needs.
Zoom link for August 23 Webinar
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| Sept 27 | Cared for and Cared About: Nursing in LTC | Michelle Sordal, BSN - BC Nurses Union | This webinar will consider the role of nurses in long term care - reflecting on the care they currently provide in increasingly complex and challenging circumstances while offering a vision of what nursing care could look like with appropriate nurse-to-resident ratios. Zoom link for September 27 Webinar |
| Oct 25 | Transitions to LTC- The Family Experience | Wendy Johnstone | Join Wendy Johnstone to learn about the complexity and challenges families face when relocating a family member into long term care. With a Master’s Degree in Gerontology and 20 years’ experience working with family caregivers and seniors, Wendy brings her education and lived experience to her work with FCBC, first as a caregiver coach, content writer and lead for an innovative social prescribing program for caregivers to her new role as Director of Programs and Innovation. Zoom link for October 25 Webinar |
| Nov 22 | Quality of Life in LTC- the Seniors Advocate’s Perspective | Isobel Mackenzie, Office of the Seniors Advocate | This webinar with BC Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, will draw on the findings of her recently released report on the experiences of residents living in long-term care in 294 publicly subsidized homes across BC in 2022-2023. Zoom link for November 22 Webinar |
| Jan 10 | Strengthening LTC Communities from Within- Residents and Families. Make A Difference with What They Have- Their Voices | ILTCCABC -Independent Long Term Care Councils Association of BC | ILTCCABC hopes this webinar will build on the awareness among the public about ongoing issues in long-term care homes that compromise quality of life for residents. Our hope is that our building awareness and offering up recommendations will result in change and improvement to resident and family experience. We also hope our results will inspire others to get involved and put pressure on politicians and the government to address these concerns by advocating for system reform. Zoom link for January 10, 2024 Webinar |
| Feb 7 | It's my home! Working together to ensure Long Term Care truly is home | BC Association of Social Workers | Hosted by members of the BC Association of Social Workers' Seniors Community of Practice, this session is a personal, first-person invitation to imagine Long Term Care as ‘home’. Imagine having real choices, having social work support at key times, residents being truly known, valued, and listened to, and connected to those near and dear. Please join us in this visioning of what is possible.” Zoom link for February 7, 2024 Webinar |
| March 6 | Communication and Swallowing Health in Residential Care | Speech & Hearing BC - Dr. Richard Welland, Speech-Language Pathologist | Speech and Hearing British Columbia is the provincial association that represents speech-language pathologists and audiologists and that advocates for people with speech, language, swallowing, and hearing disabilities in BC Zoom link for March 6, 2024 Webinar |
| April 10 | Neglect and Abuse in LTC | Dr Gloria Gutman | Internationally recognized forms of elder maltreatment include psychological, physical, sexual and financal abuse as well as neglect. This talk will review what we know about rates, victims, and perpetrators as well as discuss resident-resident aggression and homicide which tend, more than the other forms of maltreatment, to be taboo topics. Zoom link for April 10, 2024 Webinar |
| May 8 | Dementia and LTC – Current Challenges | Gerontological Nurses Association - Dr.Shelley Canning | The concept of "Person-Centred Care" has been central to the scholarship and education related to people living with dementia in LTC. It is often embedded in the mission and values statements of LTC homes. However, meaningful uptake of person-centred care practices remains difficult. The prospect of multiple re-builds of LTC homes in BC presents an opportunity to examine current dementia care practices and imagine what might be possible. What are the pressures/constraints? Is person-centred care a possibility? Should it still be the goal? Zoom link for May 8, 2024 Webinar |
| June 5 | BC Long-Term Care Quality Initiative | Amanda Leddy | TBA |
MISS THE WEBINAR? - view the presentation and notes here:
Notes from June Webinar:
Notes June 28 Webinar: Taking Action to Create a Better Future in LTC That Supports Quality of Life
Notes from July Webinar:
Notes July 26 Webinar: Lessons Learned in Therapeutic Recreation During COVID-19
Notes from August Webinar:
Notes August 23: What’s for Dinner? Unpacking Food and Nutrition in Long Term Care
Notes from September 2023 Webinar:
Notes September 27: Care for and Cared About: Nursing in Long Term Care
Notes from October 2023 Webinar:
Notes October 25: Transitions to LTC- The Family Experience
Notes from November 2023 Webinar:
Notes November 22: Quality of Life in Long-term Care – the Seniors Advocate’s Perspective
Notes from January 2024 Webinar:
Notes from February 2024 Webinar:
It's my home! Working together to ensure Long Term Care truly is home
Notes from March 2024 Webinar:
Communication and Swallowing Health in Long-term Care
Video from July 26 Webinar - Lessons Learned in Therapeutic Recreation During COVID-19
Video from August 23 Webinar - What's for Dinner? Unpacking Food and Nutrition in Long Term Care
Video from September 27 Webinar - Cared for and Cared About: Nursing in Long Term Care
Video from October Webinar - Transitions to LTC- The Family Experience
Video from November 22 Webinar - Quality of Life in LTC- the Seniors Advocate’s Perspective
Video from January 10 2024 Webinar - Strengthening LTC Communities from Within- Residents and Families. Make A Difference with What They Have- Their Voices
Video from February 7 2024 Webinar - It's my home! Working together to ensure Long Term Care truly is home
Video from March 6 2024 Webinar - Communication and Swallowing Health in Residential Care
April 10, 2024 Webinar - no video, see slides below
Neglect and Abuse in LTC - Dr. Glora Gutman
Issues
Following are some of the issues ARRCBC is concerned about and will be addressing through advocacy
- COVID-19 has exposed degradation of care to seniors and instability of the workforce
- Privatization and deregulation have eroded the care seniors receive
- Government-funded profit-making LTC facilities profit at a cost to seniors, front-line workers and taxpayers
- Working short staffed has become routine
- The number of direct-care hours per resident is neither standardized nor regulated
- LTC facilities aren’t accountable for how direct-care funding is spent
- Government-funded profit-making LTC facilities profit by not providing the number of hours of direct care for which they are funded
- Front line staff are under-payed and over-worked - leading to high turn-over and employment in multiple facilities
- Food, laundry and other services are often contracted out to the lowest bidder
- There isn’t an effective monitoring system to identify sub-standard care in LTC facilities, nor enforceable consequences
- Family members/councils are often the first to identify inadequate care but don’t know how to complain or are intimidated
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