Family Council

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY COUNCIL PORTAL

Family Council is an independent and voluntary body composed of family members, caregiver friends, and legal representatives of residents. Our primary focus is to advocate for the delivery of quality resident and family centered care.
Family Council Terms of Reference
Family Council Code of Conduct  
Connect with us: lb.familycouncil@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone who attended our January 2024 Family Council Meeting!
Minutes attached.

Date: Thursday, March 21 2024
Time: 7:00 PM Pacific Time
Place: Virtual
Special Guest: Mali Elliot, Long-Term Care Clinical Resource Nurse, Vancouver Community Palliative Care Program. We will explore integrating a palliative approach by having conversations early (ipace).

Mali’s Bio: I would like to introduce to you Mali Elliot who is working in VCH as the Long Term Care Palliative Care resource Nurse.
Mali has primarily worked in the settings of Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplants from 1992-2018. From 2018, Mali then moved to palliative care work in the community, in addition to working with geriatric mental health clients in the STAT Centre unit at UBC Hospital. Mali’s roles has been varied, including frontline nursing, peer mentor, educator researcher, manager.

Mali has a passion for educating residents, family members and care teams re: palliative care and believes that the more education people have access to, the better prepared they are for life an for the stages of death and dying.

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Documents attached:
Telephone Directory for Families
LBHH Organizational Chart
February 13 2024 Draft minutes

Let us know what type of presentation and/or topics you would like us to include in our meetings.
We leave time for personal sharing. Many personal stories are shared, which often are commonly experienced.

With our collective experiences, many well-thought-out ideas and solutions emerge. In turn, we are able to bring these suggestions to Senior Leadership for their consideration.

 “Peer Support Corner”
One Family Member wrote to Family Council with this excellent reference:
“The book, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands, by Dasha Kiper (2023), has been tremendously helpful to me in understanding dementia’s challenges, with a focus on caregivers. Maybe others will find it helpful, too.

The book was reviewed by many major publications, and Tablet Magazine published the foreword by Norman Doidge https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/travelers-to-unimaginable-lands
Dasha Kiper was interviewed by David Hyde Pierce (Niles from sitcom Frasier), at a New York Public Library event, video at https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/04/13/dashakiper. The book is available for checkout at the Vancouver Public Library, and is widely available for purchase. It is well written and easy to read as it is divided into case stories. Ms. Kiper weaves a lot of current research on how the brain works, to explain the range of emotions that caregivers feel and why we react the way we do.”

Please share a resource that has helped you: lb.familycouncil@gmail.com

Continue your advocacy and support for improved long-term care in BC:
Get to know your regional association of family councils: Vancouver Coastal Association of Family Councils (VCAFC)
https://www.facebook.com/VCAFC  Email: vcafc.regional@gmail.com 

Get to know your provincial association of family councils:
Independent Long-Term Care Councils Association BC (ILTCCABC) https://iltccabc.ca/ 
Consider volunteering to support the movement for improvement in long-term care across BC.

We look forward to seeing you virtually on Thursday, March 21 2024 at 7PM

Family Council Executive              
Lisa Dawson, Co-Chair                                  
Fran Harrison, Co-Chair
Cassandra Siebel,  Co-Chair
Evan Sahmet, Vice  Co-Chair
Rahim Meghji, Treasurer

RESOURCES:

Family Council Terms of References and Supporting Documents

Recreation Calendar

Family Council Minutes

2024

January
February

For the Louis Brier Family Council Minutes Archive:

References

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