LIVING CLASSROOM

The Living Classroom is a partnership model that integrates education into a long-term care or retirement home to support workforce development in senior living. Students, faculty, and those living, visiting and working in the home engage in a culture of shared learning. The model was first implemented in Ontario through a partnership with Conestoga College, the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and Schlegel Villages... A second Living Classroom opened in 2015 at the Village at University Gates (Waterloo, Ontario), in partnership with the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. The LC at University Gates delivers both PSW and PN programming. The PN program was transferred from Riverside Glen... Who is going to be an advocate for residents and long-term care in the years to come? Our students! Those students that we mentor and support today - those are the people that will lead long-term care in the next decades. Those are the people I count on to build on what we have..

Primary location: Waterloo