Everything About Residents Involves Residents: A Co-Designed Toolkit Inspiring Resident Engagement in Long-Term Care Homes

Engagement: It starts with yes!

Informed by direct feedback from long-term care home Administrators and Executive Directors, and developed in collaboration with residents, OARC’s research-informed toolkit supports and inspires new ways of thinking and doing with residents, with a focus on home operations. The toolkit has been designed to meet teams wherever they are on their quality improvement and culture change journey.

Complete with practical tips, tools, and guides, this toolkit will help inspire confidence in both residents and home leadership to work together in shaping a home that benefits everyone.

Download the toolkit here

Who is the toolkit for? This partnership resource is intended to be used by LTC Home leadership and residents.

Why use the toolkit? Transform home culture by meaningfully engaging residents in key operational and decision‑making activities.

Learn more about the OARC’s nationally-funded research project that supported the development of our toolkit here.

Upcoming Webinars to support toolkit implementation:

Attend one of three upcoming webinars and gain an in-depth understanding of how this toolkit can be used today to unlock collaborative opportunities in the home.

Applying Tools for Transformation: OARC’s Resident Engagement Toolkit Workshop!

A hands-on workshop walking participants through the toolkit using scenario-based applications.
Access webinar recording here.

Shaping the Place Called Home: A Co-designed Toolkit for Resident Engagement in Long-term Care Homes

Hosted by Perley Health’s Centre of Excellence in Frailty‑Informed Care, this session focused on OARC’s research that led to the development of a resident engagement toolkit. It helped participants gain a deeper understanding of resident engagement and adapt approaches to meet their long‑term care needs. Recording coming soon!

Everything About Residents Involves Residents: An Introduction to OARC’s New Resident Engagement Toolkit

Update description to read: Designed for a resident audience, this webinar walked participants through the content of OARC’s new Resident Engagement Toolkit. Access webinar recording here.