Service offers:

• information on Alberta’s continuing care system and standards
• Alberta Health Services' Continuing Care Facility Directory
• setting standards for continuing care health services and accommodations
• receiving and handling complaints on continuing care facilities

Continuing care settings include:

• home and community care - health and personal care services and supports for clients of all ages, living in their home or other private residential settings
• supportive living accommodations - a type of continuing care accommodation where people can remain as independent as possible in a congregate setting with access to services that meet their changing needs
• continuing care homes - licensed settings that provide 24-hour publicly-funded health and personal care support on-site; includes care homes for people with various levels of medical needs who are unable to remain safely in a supportive living accommodation or at home and people who require specialized end-of-life care