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Recommendation 10:
Establish an expert panel of both academic and practice leaders in relational care to help shift assisted living from a philosophy of living at risk to a philosophy of relational care.
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
- Define and apply relational care principles to an assisted living environment;
- Outline a relational-care-planning process to be used with each resident when they enter an assisted living residence and a process for updating it at regular intervals;
- Describe the educational materials and quality-improvement processes needed to support a relational care framework and improve practice over time;
- Include strategies for ensuring that front-line staff and residents, and their family and friends, feel safe and respected in these processes; and
- Recommend how to facilitate the shift to relational care and processes for monitoring progress (i.e., through the inspection processes for assisted living residences).
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Recommendation 1:
Establish a preliminary legislative foundation as soon as possible that brings transparency, coherence and a measure of accountability to the process, as part of a broader long-term approach to legislative change.
Foundational legislation developed in full co-operation with Indigenous peoples will provide a transparent, coherent and binding path to implementation.
Bill C-262 is a logical starting place for this legislation, as it provides a confirmation of legal application in BC; a legislated requirement for an orderly, clear and transparent process of implementation; and a recognition of the need for oversight and accountability frameworks.
Establishment of legislation should be reflective of a new approach to litigation regarding Indigenous Rights: collaboration, not conflict.
Foundational legislation developed in full co-operation with Indigenous peoples will provide a transparent, coherent and binding path to implementation.
Bill C-262 is a logical starting place for this legislation, as it provides a confirmation of legal application in BC; a legislated requirement for an orderly, clear and transparent process of implementation; and a recognition of the need for oversight and accountability frameworks.
Establishment of legislation should be reflective of a new approach to litigation regarding Indigenous Rights: collaboration, not conflict.
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Recommendation 1:
Enhance the capacity of the assisted living registry to enforce the Community and Assisted Living Act by substantially increasing the number of assisted living investigators, and by developing policies that build on the inspection provisions in the act.
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These policies should:
- Mandate yearly inspections of all private-pay and publicly subsidized assisted living residences; and
- Mandate all publicly subsidized and private-pay assisted living residences to post clear and detailed information about how and where residents, families and staff can access the complaints process of the assisted living registry, including public reporting on compliance.
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Recommendation 4:
Develop tools that entrench an understanding, respect and appreciation of the UN Declaration in society at large.
For implementation to be successful, the general public must be able to participate in discourse about the UN Declaration at the same level as other pieces of foundational legislation such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Constitution Act, 1982).
To do so, human rights education needs to be implemented and tools need to be developed (including school-based curricula) to properly educate the Canadian public on the UN Declaration.
For implementation to be successful, the general public must be able to participate in discourse about the UN Declaration at the same level as other pieces of foundational legislation such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Constitution Act, 1982).
To do so, human rights education needs to be implemented and tools need to be developed (including school-based curricula) to properly educate the Canadian public on the UN Declaration.
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