Improving Quality of Life in LTC Report
Improving Quality of Life in LTC - A Way Forward LTC Full Report to the BC Minister of Health
Resources
A Monthly Webinar Series facilitated by ARRC (Action for Reform of Residential Care) B.C.
Go to the Issues/Education page for the list of upcoming Webminars for June 2023 - June 2024
ARRC Curated Extensive Media and Resources list
Check our curated extensive media and resources list to new articles reporting issues and concerns about care of residents in long term care facilities for the period January 2020 to December 2022- 127 pages of links - this is no longer updated:
COVID and Long Term Care
Media and Resource Links, 2022
Accessing Health Services Not Covered By MSP - A Resource Guide for BC Seniors
Residents' Bill of Rights - Community Care and Assisted Living Act
Alzheimer Society Bill of Rights for Persons Living With Dementia
Social connection in residents of long-term care homes: mental health impacts and strategies during COVID-19 (Event Recording)
Heat-Related Illnesses - What to Look for and What to Do
Reports
Every Voice Counts: Long-Term Care Resident and Visitor Survey Results - Report released November 16 2023
Every Voice Counts
Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia - It’s Time to Act: A Review of Assisted Living in B.C. - Report released June 28, 2023
- It’s Time to Act: A Review of Assisted Living in B.C.
Following a comprehensive review of the province’s assisted living services, the BC Seniors Advocate is calling on government to address the current confusing legislative landscape to protect seniors from significant rent and service fee increases, improve oversight and reporting, and address affordability challenges.
Supporting Mental Health and Well-Being in Community Residential Care Settings. MacCourt, P. (2021) for Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, ON.
Supporting-Mental-Health-and-Well-Being-in-Community-Residential-Care-Settings
The aim of this report is to develop a comprehensive guidance with recommendations to support the mental health and well-being of people living in community residential care settings, and that could provide a framework for a new national standard. Policies and practices to facilitate a positive residential care environment for residents, families, and staff are outlined while recognizing that the government has a responsibility for funding facilities and for building and adequately supporting a workforce, sufficient in number, and with the diverse skills and knowledge required to meet the holistic and complex needs of our most vulnerable citizens.
Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia - Staying Apart to Stay Safe: The Impact of Visit Restrictions on Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Survey November 2020
- Staying Apart to Stay Safe: The Impact of Visit Restrictions on Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Survey
Every Voice Counts: Long-Term Care Resident and Visitor Survey Results 2023
Every Voice Counts
Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia - A Billion Reasons to Care - the first provincial review of the $1.4 billion-dollar contracted long-term care sector in British Columbia.February 2020
Office of the Advocate BC Report
Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia - Monitoring Seniors Services 2019
Office of the Advocate BC Report
The Office of the Ombudsperson report- Best of Care Getting it Right for Seniors in B.C. (update Part 2)
Islandhealth Accountability
Royal Society Restoring Trust
Overview of Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care This Policy Briefing Report on Long-Term Care focuses on the workforce. The report begins by reviewing the research context and policy environment in Canada’s long-term care sector before the arrival of COVID-19. It summarizes the existing knowledge base for far-sighted and integrated solutions to challenges in the long-term care sector. The report then outlines profound, long-standing deficiencies in the long-term care sector that contributed to the magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis. Equally important contributors to this crisis are the characteristics of the older adults living in nursing homes, their caregivers and the physical environment of nursing homes.
Just Imagine—this is how things would look if every facility implemented person-centred care.
The Look and Feeling of Person Centred Care
Working Together to put Living First. A Guidebook to Change the Culture of Aging in Long-Term Care, Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging, 2015. www.the-ria.ca
APPENDICES Working Together to put Living First. A Guidebook to Change the Culture of Aging in Long-Term Care
Miscellaneous
Independent Long-Term Care Councils Association of BC (ILTCCABC)
A Remarkable Milestone for Family Councils in Long-Term Care Homes in BC
Nov 3, 2022, in a public media release, the BC Ministry of Health (MoH) announced new residential care regulations re operations of family councils in long-term care (LTC) homes. A family council is made up of Residents’ family members and representatives.
Read it here:
A Remarkable MilestoneVancouver Island Association Family Councils
A Family Council is a self-determining, democratic body composed of friends, family members, or persons of importance to residents in long term residential care.
Formally established in 2010, the Vancouver Island Association of Family Councils (VIAFC) represents member Councils from residential care facilities throughout Island Health (Authority).
Federal Party Platforms LTC for Election 2021 compiled by a ARRCBC member
Party Platforms LTC 2021
Complaints and Concerns
Island Health Licensing Officers
Nanaimo: (250)-739-5800
Courtenay: (250)-331-8620
Campbell River: (250)-850-2110
Victoria: (250)-519-3401
See the Vancouver Island Family Council site for more detailed information for the complaint process
Vancouver Island Association Family Councils
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