Tools and Guidance for Proactive Leadership

Ontario is working to rapidly build out and update its long-term care beds, and this timely series is designed to help leaders harness this opportunity to deliver even better care to residents, with sessions in dementia design, redevelopment and project funding.
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Summary

  • Research-Informed Dementia Design

    Join gerontologist and dementia care expert Gail Elliot to learn how to create homelike spaces for residents with dementia, using the evidence-based DementiAbility Methods.

  • Rockwood Terrace Redevelopment

    Meet the LTC leaders, architects and project managers behind Rockwood Terrace's ambitious redevelopment project, designed to facilitate compassionate, person-centred care.

  • Greenlight That Project!

    Looking to secure funding for a redeveloment project? Get strategic advice for building a business case, securing stakeholder support, meeting funding application requirements and more.

Course Curriculum

This course was recorded live online in March 2024. It includes 4.5 hours of on-demand course content.

  1. 1

    • Truly Like Home: Research-Informed Dementia Design (1h 30m)

    • Rockwood Terrace: Revitalizing Our Home for Person-Centred Care (1h 30m)

    • Greenlight that Project: Getting Your LTC Redevelopment Approved (1h 30m)

    • Ready to Develop: Evolving Standards, Fresh Ideas Feedback

Instructors

Gail Elliot

Gerontologist and Dementia Specialist, DementiAbility Enterprises Inc.

Gail Elliot is passionate about changing the face of dementia. For Gail, there is nothing more rewarding than hearing success stories from people working in long-term care environments, community settings, hospitals and other venues where families and professionals support people living with dementia. She enjoys hearing about the “miracles” that are shared by care partners around the globe and loves to witness how teams and organizations are working together to adopt DementiAbility as their new culture of care. Gail leads with breadth, depth and compassion and inspires care partners to use evidence-informed practices to transform the lives of people living with dementia.

Carly Ellis

Director, EnterpriseHealth, Enterprise Canada

At EnterpriseHealth, Carly leads strategic planning processes from inception to implementation to ensure our clients are always ahead of ever-evolving health system. Carly specializes in in supporting senior leaders and boards work through complex problems and engage their communities while also bridging the gap between operations, communications and government advocacy.   She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Queen’s University’s School of Public Policy and an Honours degree in Health Sciences with a minor in Political Sciences from the University of Western Ontario.

Andrew Rodrigues

Seniors and LTC Advisor, Colliers Project Leaders

Since joining Colliers Project Leaders in 2017, Andrew has worked on numerous long-term care redevelopment projects including Bruyère Comples & Continuing Care and the Prescott-Russell Residence. He has a passion for healthcare which he combines with is engineering knowledge, project management and advisory services expertise to deliver LTC mandates.

Jennifer Cornell

Director of Long Term Care, Corporation of the County of Grey

Jennifer is responsible for three long-term care communities: Lee Manor in Owen Sound, Grey Gables in Markdale, and Rockwood Terrace in Durham. She is a respected long term care and health system leader with over twenty years of progressively senior leadership roles. Jennifer is a transformational leader focused on quality care and service initiatives, team development and growth.

Deborah Wadsworth

Senior Project Architect, Kasian Architecture Inc.

Jamie Cook

Principal, Healthcare, Colliers Project Leaders

Investment

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Testimonials

"It was very helpful to gain a perspective on what the government is working on in relieving the financial pressure of building and operating Long-Term Care."

2024 Participant