Sustaining Small Homes for Decades

Suellen Beatty is a pioneer of person-directed care and small-home living in Canada. During her decades-long career at the Sherbrooke Community Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Beatty worked tirelessly to always go above and beyond even the basics of person-directed care practices, building a community where residents actually want to live, and caregivers actually want to work — with the more than 90% retention rate to prove it. Beatty joins the podcast this week to discuss how she helped turn Sherbrooke into a national standard for eldercare — as well as intergenerational education — north of the border. Learn more about Sherbrooke: https://www.sherbrookecommunitycentre.ca/ Read the recent Canadian small-home report: https://www.niageing.ca/small-care-homes