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Commitment: Long-term
Connection method: Hybrid
Open to Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland, Provincial Region, Patient partners across BC
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Project Aim: To reduce inappropriate and avoidable ED transfers, and to prevent unnecessary acute care admissions.
Patient population: Residents living in long-term care homes (LTC).
Commitment:
• An 8-month commitment, with approximately 2 hours of meetings and discussions per month
• Three 4-hour learning sessions (20-Oct-2025, 7-Jan-2026, 12-Mar-2026), in person at Vancouver, BC
Expectation:
• Provide input and recommendations on processes. If they can speak at learning session on lived experiences in the LTC Setting that would also be ideal but not required.
• Insights into the healthcare process from the patient’s, family, and caregiver perspective, including challenges, issues, risks, and suggestions on how to improve it. Needs from a family and caregiver perspective, resources, and ideas that can help improve quality of care in a LTC setting.
Level of Engagement
This opportunity is at the level of Involve on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.Eligibility
- Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
- Specific health care experiences [details below]
- Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
- Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
- An interest in improving health care services
- The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
- Patient partners with lived experience at Long-term care home; can be family and caregiver.
