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Seniors Lodge Review Panel

The panel found ways to make the most of existing seniors lodge spaces and ensure seniors can age in their community.

Overview

The Seniors Lodge Review Panel provided opportunities for seniors housing advocates to share input to ensure Albertans living in lodges, and their families, have a voice in the process of reviewing the Seniors Lodge Program.

The lodge review explored ways to improve our lodge system’s efficiency and sustainability into the future.

The Seniors Lodge Program supports seniors who are capable of independent living with community supports to age in community. This review was identified as a priority during the 2020 Affordable Housing Review Panel, and supports a key action in government's Stronger Foundations affordable housing strategy.
 

Timeline

  • Open

  • Results under review

  • Completed

Who is listening

Ministry of Assisted Living and Social Services

Panel report

The Seniors Lodge Review Panel have produced a final report that includes 19 recommendations that propose a mix of legislative, regulatory and administrative changes to the lodge program. The recommendations are structured under 4 main themes:

  • Strengthening oversight to secure long-term sustainability.
  • Reforming the lodge funding model to manage operating deficits and capital investment.
  • Strengthen and improve lodge operations with goal of enhancing the lodge experience for residents.
  • Supporting actions to strengthen governance and provide operational support.

Read the Final report of the Lodge Program Review Panel.

Input received

Engagement sessions

Alberta Seniors and Community Housing Association (ASCHA) supported engagement activities to inform the Lodge Program Review, including establishing a member task force, surveying lodge operators and running regional engagement sessions for operators. 

Additional opportunities for engagement and consultation for municipalities, lodge residents and other interested stakeholders was led by Focus Consulting throughout the review.

Online survey

Albertans shared feedback on ways to improve our lodge system’s efficiency and sustainability into the future, through an online survey between March 26 to April 9, 2024.

Next steps

Work is underway to implement the recommendations. This includes establishing working groups in the fall with stakeholders – such as lodge operators and municipal representatives – to provide input on policy options to address the recommendations.

The government will continue to collaborate with lodge operators as legislative and administrative changes are implemented.

Panel members

  • Brandon Lunty, MLA for Leduc-Beaumont, Co-chair
  • Arlene Adamson, president, Alberta Seniors and Community Housing Association (ASCHA), Co-chair
  • Jennifer McCue, president and chief executive officer, Bethany Care Society
  • Lauren Ingalls, chief administrative officer, Westwinds Communities
  • Stacey Stilling, chief administrative officer, Mountain View Seniors Housing
  • Mariam Elghahuagi, manager of Healthy Aging Alberta, United Way of Calgary and Area
  • Marlys Jordan, chief administrative officer, Calgary Heritage Housing
  • Nancy Simmonds, chief administrative officer, Heartland Housing Foundation
  • Patricia Scantlebury-MacInnis, president and chief executive officer, Wood Buffalo Housing Corporation
  • Paul McLauchlin, president, Rural Municipalities Alberta
  • Robin James, vice-president south region, ASCHA
  • Shane Gauthier, chief executive officer, Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary
  • Shawn Gramlich, councillor, Slave Lake
  • Steve Madden, chief administrative officer, Grande Spirit Foundation
  • Tina Petrow, Director of Cities up to 500k, Alberta Municipalities

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