Alberta Continuing Care Association

Together, we can do this. It’s been a very difficult year for everyone. The COVID-19 pandemic has tested us all particularly in the continuing care sector. Now, more than ever we need to remain strong together. Please continue to follow the public health orders in place designed to prevent further spread of COVID and to protect our vulnerable residents and those who care for them. Read more about provincial recommendations and guidelines here https://www.alberta.ca/protecting-residents-at-congregate-c #TruthAboutABCare

Let’s all do what we can to protect everyone in our community, particularly those living in long term care and those requiring home care. Learn more https://www.alberta.ca/protecting-residents-at-congregate-c #TruthAboutABCare

Read more about it here https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm #TruthAboutABCare

Wishing you all a beautiful Family Day and a heartfelt thank you to all the care providers who consider their residents and people for whom they care a part of their own families!

Who is standing up for our vulnerable citizens in continuing care? The ACCA is! Our role is to champion quality care for Alberta seniors. Learn more about our efforts as the voice for continuing care in Alberta at albertacontinuingcare.ca

The Alberta Continuing Care Association (ACCA) welcomes the good news that the province is expanding the rapid testing program to include long term care and designated supportive living providers in Alberta for the routine testing of asymptomatic staff. Read the full media statement or visit https://www.albertacontinuingcare.ca

October 1 is National Seniors' Day! Every day, seniors make valuable contributions to our families, workplaces and communities. National Seniors' Day is a great occasion to show appreciation and celebrate the seniors in all of our lives. Particularly as we all work together through the challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic that has so impacted us all. How will you be celebrating the seniors near and dear to you? Let us know! Pictured is Joseph Connors, 96 years young, having a welcome visit at home from his granddaughter and great granddaughter.

https://torontolife.com//the-post-pandemic-future-we-will/ What do you think of this opinion article from Dr. Sinha?

Welcome new ACCA Member Capsa Healthcare Canada (based in Toronto). Capsa has been an innovator for medication management and supplies organization and IT mobilization since 2000. Capsa offers a wide range of solutions for senior care, acute care, and pharmacy settings including infection control and COVID-19 response storage/organization, medication carts, mobile computing and telehealth workstations, automated dispensing cabinets for narcotics inventory, and prescription filling technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osygzmvXgL8&feature=youtu.be Please click to view a message from ACCA Board Chair Jennifer McCue.

June 1, 2020 The Alberta Continuing Care Association would like to comment on an Editorial Cartoon that appeared in the May 29, 2020 edition of the Calgary Herald which depicts steps leading up to a dumpster emblazoned with Nursing Home on the side. To say that this depiction is inappropriate is putting it lightly. The cartoon demonstrates a complete lack of compassion for residents and families whose loved ones reside within Continuing Care Facilities. The impact this cart...oon has on residents, loved ones and care providers, who have worked tirelessly to deliver quality and compassionate care services when and where they are needed, is immeasurable and totally unwarranted. Everyday, but especially during this Pandemic, one defining thread is the commitment of the highly dedicated, caring, and hard-working staff who work in support of Alberta’s seniors and most vulnerable citizens. The Alberta Continuing Care Association has been a vocal advocate for a comprehensive review of the continuing care system to address the current and future needs of Alberta’s seniors and persons with disabilities. The current Pandemic has highlighted chronic systemic issues that need to be addressed. To imply, however, that Albertans entering the continuing care system are getting into the equivalent of a garbage dumpster is a sign of ignorance and lack of compassion for this transition in the lives of thousands of Albertans a year and to the thousands of front-line care providers who have shown incredible commitment, risking their own health in working tirelessly to support Albertans, day-in and day-out. Our collective membership, speaking on behalf of 100 members that provide care for over 33,000 Alberta seniors, is disgusted by this editorial cartoon. Not only is it not funny, it is undeniably cruel, and the Calgary Herald should apologize for this insensitive depiction.