FLTCA Alignment: 19-Accommodation services
Ensuring an organized program of housekeeping, maintenance, and laundry services for linen and personal clothing of the residents. Ensuring the home, furnishings, and equipment are kept clean and sanitary, in a safe condition, and a good state of repair. Ensuring that residents’ linen and personal clothing is collected, sorted, cleaned, and delivered.
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Project ECHO Care for the Elderly
ECHO Care of the Elderly is an interactive, case-based, virtual education and telementoring series (offered over Zoom) aimed at connecting primary care providers, personal support workers and healthcare professionals working in long-term care (LTC) in Ontario to an interprofessional team of geriatric specialists through weekly videoconferencing sessions.
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Environmental Services
This page provides learning resources for anyone who trains environmental services (housekeeping) team members who will be working in long-term care (LTC). EVS team members play a vital role in supporting Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) and interacting with residents, particularly those living with dementia. The resources developed by the Ontario CLRI reflect and support…
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Resident Interaction for Environmental Services Team Members
Team members in long-term care, including maintenance, laundry, food service, and housekeeping teams, frequently interact with residents living with dementia or other complex, chronic health conditions. Without the right knowledge, they may not know how to properly respond to residents or unknowingly compromise resident safety. Our eLearning activity will enhance the impact of long-term care…
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Housekeeping as a Career
Housekeepers clean, disinfect, and do whatever else is needed to keep the building tidy and running well for those who live and work in the long-term care home.
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Environmental Service Careers
Do you like to keep things in order? Then consider a career in environmental services in long-term care.