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a guide to long-term care placement

What is a long-term care home?

A long-term care home is a place for you to live safely, comfortably and with dignity when it becomes too difficult to live at home independently.

What services are provided in long-term care homes?

  • Nursing
  • Personal care assistance (for example: bathing, dressing, eating)
  • Specialized services such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy
  • Assistance with activities of daily living
  • Treatment and medication administration
  • Meals
  • Laundry services
  • Social/recreational/spiritual programs

How do I apply for long-term care?

The first step is to get in touch with Ontario Health atHome - an organization that coordinates local home and community care, long-term care placement, and services in the community.

Please call 310-2222 (no area code).  A care coordinator will advise you about your options and support you as you make important decisions related to eligibility, and application.

What are the steps of long-term care application? 

 

  1. Referral: You can work with a care coordinator to determine eligibility. You can refer yourself, or a referral can be made on your behalf by a family member, caregiver, physician, nurse or community worker.  If applying on behalf of someone, please talk openly and respectfully with the person who may need long-term care before applying.

  2. Visit the Homes: By visiting homes, or taking a virtual tour, you can get a better feel for the surroundings and the people who work and live in the home.

  3. Assessments and Forms: When you decide long-term care is right for you, a care coordinator will help you through the application process.

  4. Wait Lists and Wait Times: Before you can move into one of the long-term care homes you have selected you will likely need to wait until an appropriate bed for your care becomes available. During this time your care coordinator will continue to work with you to ensure your needs are being met until a long-term care bed becomes available.

  5. Bed Offer: Your care coordinator will contact you when an appropriate bed becomes available in one of your chosen homes.

  6. Admission Day: On moving day getting to the long-term care home, moving costs, and arrangements will be your responsibility. On the day of admission bring things you will need immediately, the rest of your non-essential items can be brought once you have settled in.
For more detailed information please click on the image below to review Ontario Health atHome's Guide to Placement in Long-Term Care Homes.

 

Transitioning from Hospital to Long-Term Care

In Ontario, you have a range of options to help you get the appropriate care you need when leaving hospital, including moving to long-term care.  To learn more about transitioning from a hospital stay to long-term care – how it will work and what you can expect please click here.

Respite Care

Dundas Manor does not offer respite care.  The following homes in our area do: