Promoting Productive Partnerships among Colleges, Universities & Long-Term Care Homes

About

The Promoting Productive Partnerships among Colleges, Universities and Long-term Care Homes Community of Practice aims to improve health care by:

• Improving the integration of research and innovation in long-term care homes.
• Education of health science students in long-term care to improve care of seniors throughout the spectrum of health services.
• Responding to health human-resource challenges in long-term care homes.

The Community of Practice promotes and facilitates networking opportunities within the Ontario’s long-term care homes. It brings together those who have created partnerships to exchange strategies.

Membership

The membership of the CoP has grown significantly over the last year, and now includes over 80 members. Among them are paid and unpaid caregivers, researchers, policy makers, and educators.

Resources

Presentations from the Early Leaders Forum | Creating a Vision for Long-Term Care Homes as Centres of Learning held in Toronto on November 24, 2010:

• Creating a Vision for Long-Term Care Homes as Centres of Learning (S. Motiwala, K. Velji)
• Creating a Vision for Long Term Care as a Center of Learning: A New Horizon for Educational Research (J.K Leclair)
• Creating a Vision for Long-Term Care Homes as Centres of Learning:
  Options and Opportunities for Ontario (S. Motiwala, K. Velji)
• Developing a Vision for Long Term Care homes as Centres for Learning (Rose Bell)
• Elements of an Effective Innovation Strategy for Long Term Care in Ontario (The Conference Board of Canada)
• Inter-jurisdictional Perspectives on Long-Term Care Facilities as Learning Centres: Canada (L. W. Chambers)
• LTCHs as Centres of Learning & Applied Research:Sector Associations’ Perspective (C. Bisanz, D. Rubin)
• The Teaching Nursing Home (Paul Katz)
• The Teaching Nursing Home Model: Where evidence meets practice (Donelle Rivett)

• Notes from early leaders forum
• Final Report

Partners

The Ontario Interdisciplinary Council for Aging and Health, an affiliate of the Council of Ontario Universities

Contact

Dr. Ken Le Clair
Co-Lead

Providence Continuing Care Centre Queen’s University
613.548.5567 x5928
leclairk@providencecare.ca

Celia Hammond
Co-Lead
416.979.2165 x210
chammond@cou.on.ca