Canadian civic calendar
Canada Day, Terry Fox week, Grey Cup, Family Day, and provincial civic days with respectful notes for Truth and Reconciliation and Indigenous Peoples Day.
For Canadian long-term care and lodge recreation teams
Activity programming written for your calendar, your printer, and your residents.
BetterCare is a recreation activity library and weekly gentle calendar in Canadian English. Each activity includes purpose, materials, setup, steps, and adaptations for mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive needs. Packs stay low-ink. Room cards stay large-print. Provincial flavour is built in for Prairie, British Columbia, Ontario, and Atlantic teams.
63+ activities · 10 staff articles with PDFs · Dementia-safe defaults · CAD pricing
Built for Canadian care homes and lodge teams
Generic printable libraries are deep, but they assume a US holiday list and a colour printer budget. BetterCare starts with Thanksgiving in October, Remembrance on 11 November, Victoria Day in May, and room cards aides can run between rounds.
Printer-friendly by design
Page counts and ink levels on every handout. Black and white defaults. Cover photos optional.
Full activity sheets
Filter by category, province, dementia-safe, and room-bound. Open a program sheet with adaptations spelled out.
What your team receives each week
One cohesive pack per week, plus a growing library you can search anytime.
Weekly Canadian pack
PDF and web view themed to season and upcoming observances, with indoor backups when weather turns.
Searchable library
Group programs, crafts, movement, spiritual care, men's groups, handouts, and sensory ideas with dementia-safe language.
Staff resources
Articles on outbreak programming, low-ink printing, memory care language, and provincial flavour. Printable PDFs for huddles.
Compare BetterCare to Activity Connection, Golden Carers, and screen platforms
Voice your residents and families recognize
Warm, practical, and dignified. We write for recreation therapists and activity aides first, administrators second. Sister brand Hearth & Home Post serves residents with a weekly printed newspaper; BetterCare serves staff with programs and handouts. The teams often overlap, but the products stay separate.