Program Information
Purpose
Project Selection
Program Criteria
Target Population and Facility Type
Eligible Organizations
Funding
Detailed Project Proposals
The purpose of the Rural Affordable Supportive Living Program is to provide affordable supportive living options to accommodate persons with high health care needs that would benefit from a more appropriate alternative to long-term care accommodation and to promote options for aging in the community.
The program is limited to the development of projects outside of the municipal boundaries of the cities of Edmonton and Calgary.
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The evaluation and selection of proposed projects from interested organizations will be based on the submission of detailed proposals from proponents.
Submissions will be made to Alberta Seniors and Community Supports.
Priority will be given to projects that address regional health authority continuing care service plans and community plans for meeting the health and personal care needs of seniors and persons with disabilities in supportive living settings
[ Back to top ]Each project must comply with all of the following program criteria:
- The project must be located outside of the municipal boundaries of the cities of Edmonton and Calgary.
- The housing proponent must be a non-profit voluntary or private sector organization, local housing authority or management body, community group, municipality or some combination thereof.
- The housing proponent must own or lease the proposed supportive living project.
- The project must provide supportive living spaces and services capable of accommodating persons who require assistance with many daily activities, may need unscheduled personal assistance, and require assistance to participate in social, recreational and rehabilitation programs.
- The rates charged to residents must be affordable for low and moderate income Albertans.
- The project must be clearly defined and financially sustainable in the longer term. The housing proponent must clearly show a commitment and capability to manage the cost of developing, financing, maintaining and operating the project.
- The project must be able to demonstrate that it is financially sustainable in the longer term based on forecast expenses and revenues.
- The project must benefit residents of the community and/or regional health
authority in one or more of the following ways:
- By achieving a more appropriate mix of facility-based and supportive living accommodation in the community through a reduction in current long-term care bed capacity.
- By addressing current inequities in the distribution of continuing care accommodation within the regional health authority by improving access to services in a community that is relatively under-serviced.
- By decreasing the waiting time for continuing care placement in the health region.
- By providing residents of existing facilities an improved standard of accommodation that is capable of safely meeting their higher care needs.
Target Population and Facility Type
Proposed projects must involve the development of a new facility or the modification of an existing facility to provide supportive living spaces capable of accommodating persons with high health and personal care needs.
The following facility types are candidates for funding:
- Designated Assisted Living (DAL), where resident's health needs are more complex than residents in traditional supportive living and who would otherwise require placement in a long-term care facility. Residents are placed into DAL facilities by regional health authorities based on their assessed health and personal care needs.
- Facilities where resident's health needs are more complex than residents in traditional supportive housing living such as seniors' lodges, but where providers are responsible for move in and move out decisions. Typically there is an operational agreement in place with a regional health authority to provide home care services.
- Combinations of the above two facility types with other appropriate facility types (e.g. a nursing home or lodge) may also be considered.
- Management bodies established under the Alberta Housing Act,
- Non-profit organizations incorporated under the Societies Act, Part 9 of the Companies Act, or the Cooperatives Act,
- Private organizations incorporated under the Companies Act or Business Corporations Act.
- Municipalities,
- Other organizations at the discretion of the Minister of Seniors and Community Supports.
Program funds will be used to provide a provincial contribution towards the initial capital cost of supportive living projects.
The provincial contribution under this program will be limited to a maximum of 50 per cent of the total initial capital cost of the project.
Funding will be on a project-by-project basis. The department will endeavour to allocate funds equitably to all areas of the province.
