Case Studies and Promising Practices

These reports are publicly available and intended to highlight intervention opportunities for improving the experience of care with those who live and work in LTC, and their families.

We worked with essential care partners and patients to bring evidence to life and to busted myths through stories that show how essential care partners benefit care, experience, safety and outcomes, including during COVID-19.

PATIENT podcast is a non-fiction medical drama told through patients’ eyes.

This is a collection of stories from healthcare providers.

The Community Action and Resources Empowering Seniors (CARES) program supports seniors to age well and live a higher quality of life within their community for longer.

Denmark is known globally for its advanced in-home and community-based health and social care systems, designed to support older adults and enable aging in place.

Nursing Home Without Walls (NHWW) was created by Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, PhD, the Université de Moncton’s Health Research Chair in Population Aging, director of the Centre for Aging Research and full professor in the School of Nursing. Beginning as a pilot program in 2019, NHWW launched in four nursing homes located in Port Elgin, Lamèque, Paquetville and Inkerman, rural communities in New Brunswick.

The NORC Innovation Centre (NIC) has created a pioneering aging-in-place model called the NORC program that is designed to enhance quality of life, social connection, personal well-being and access to healthcare for older adults. NORC, which stands for “naturally occurring retirement community,” refers to geographic areas – often residential buildings such as condos, co-ops and apartments – that were not originally planned for older adults but have naturally evolved to house a significant proportion of them.

Better at Home is a seniors-focused and community-centered program developed by Healthy Aging at United Way British Columbia (BC) in partnership with the province and organizations in the community-based seniors’ service (CBSS) sector. The program’s origins date to 2006 and the call by the Premier’s Council on Aging and Seniors’ Issues for a non-medical home support program that would enable older adults to remain living independently, with dignity, in their homes and local communities.