Home is Best for seniors and their families

Home Is Best is a system-wide approach to health care involving home health staff, hospital nurses, physicians and home and community health workers working together to improve a senior’s journey across the health care system, starting with a hospital stay and ending with discharge to the most appropriate destination – whether that is rehabilitation, convalescent care, home with support, assisted living or residential care.

Under the Home Is Best umbrella, patients who no longer need to be in hospital are supported to safely return home to recover, or wait for placement in residential care or other options.

Home Health has hired more Home Health staff to help coordinate discharges from hospital to home, and is hiring more home support workers in the community as well as home care nurses and case managers.

Watch the video

Fraser Health has produced a video to inform seniors – as well as their loved ones and health care practitioners – how they can be supported to stay at home, and delay, or perhaps avoid entirely, moving to a residential care facility.

Through the experiences of two clients, the video brings to life the Home is Best philosophy that Fraser Health is pioneering in BC. According to this philosophy, home, not hospital or residential care, is the best place to continue to recover from an illness or injury, manage long-term conditions, and live out final days.

Print resources

In addition to the video, two written guides are available from the Fraser Health website.

Learn more about Home is Best

Visit the Home is Best page to learn more about this program