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Quebec government announces $2.6B investment to revamp seniors' homes

The buildings are purposefully designed not to resemble hospitals, with nursing stations as hidden as possible. There will also be outdoor spaces and common areas dedicated to caregivers.

Larger, single rooms with private bathrooms will be standard in new CHSLDs

An artist's conception of the new style of facility. More than 2,500 existing residences will be renovated or demolished as part of the $2.6 billion project. (Ministre de la Sant et des Services sociaux)

Seniors residences and long-term care facilities across Quebec will be getting a facelift, the province's seniors' minister announced Tuesday.

Marguerite Blais, the minister responsible for seniors and informal caregivers, said that more than 2,500 of the facilities, known in French as CHSLDs, will be renovated or rebuilt to "better adapt" to the needs of seniors and staff.

The project will cost an estimated $2.6 billion.

An individual block within a facility will contain twelve units with common areas, housing residents who share similar characteristics and interests." (Ministre de la Sant et des Services sociaux)

The facilities are meant for seniors with a "moderate" loss of autonomy, until they lack "major" autonomy.

The new spaces will have larger single rooms with a private washroom and adapted showers. One block within a facilitywill be comprised of living units housing 12 residents who share "similar characteristics and interests."

The buildings are purposefully designed not to resemble hospitals, with nursing stations as hidden as possible. There will also be outdoor spaces and common areas dedicated to caregivers.

The new spaces will have larger, single rooms with a private washroom and adapted shower. (Ministre de la Sant et des Services sociaux)

The "more attractive and functional" work environments are also intended to help the chronically short-staffed CHSLDs retain employees.

"We will provide a real living environment for the people who live there, and for the staff who work there," Blais said in a statement.

The new project is set to create an additional 2,600 places by 2022, Blais said.