Small Care Homes: Reimagining Long-Term Care

A different model of long-term care for a more personalized experience.

Long-term care in Canada is mostly made up of large, institutional facilities. They aren’t known as warm and inviting places to call home. But there is a growing movement for a culture change pushing for alternatives. In this episode of The Future Age podcast, host Zannat Reza explores a different model of long-term care, based on smaller homes with a more personalized experience.

Dawn Harsch, founder of ExquisiCare, joins Zannat to talk about why she decided to build small care homes, the benefits those homes offer, and the future of this model of care.

For more information and a list of resources go to TheFutureAge.ca.

Resources:

• ExquisiCare
• National Institute on Ageing: There’s No Place Like Home: Why Canada Must Priortize Small Care Home Models in its Provision of Long-Term Care
• The Green House Project
• Maisons des aînés
• Dawn Harsch | LinkedIn

Connect:

• Learn More: The Future Age
• LinkedIn: SE Health
• YouTube: SE Health
• Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter / X
• Connect w/ Zannat: LinkedIn

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (01:02) - Conception of ExquisiCare
• (02:44) - What Makes Small Care Homes Unique?
• (05:10) - Inside ExquisiCare’s Design
• (06:34) - Staffing Small Care Homes
• (07:16) - Innovations at ExquisiCare
• (09:48) - ExquisiCare Success Story
• (11:17) - Barriers to Small Care Homes
• (12:45) - Changing Government Mindsets
• (14:12) - Challenges in Neighborhood Integration
• (15:35) - Building and Expanding Small Care Homes
• (17:28) - Vision for the Future
• (18:23) - The Final Question
• (19:16) - Conclusion