The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
Graduate Certificate in Retirement Communities ManagementOttawa, Canada
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 7,245
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Support the aging population - become a leader in this fast-growing industry.
The Retirement Communities Management Ontario College Graduate Certificate program provides the specialized skills and knowledge to help you meet the demand for skilled managers in the retirement communities field.
Learn from seasoned industry professionals. The program aligns curriculum with Ontario`s Retirement Homes Act, 2010, and prepares you for entry into this expanding field, or advancement within retirement communities.
Discover the organizational structures and day-to-day operations within the industry, including:
- Human Resources
- Recruitment
- Fiscal Management
- Resident Care
- Food service Operations
- Marketing
- Recreation Activities
- Legislation and Regulatory Bodies
Apply management skills related to all of these areas through activities, case studies, and industry work. Plan, implemented, and executed fiscal and operational strategies to optimize organizational efficiency. The focus also includes knowledge of resident care best practices.
A three-week field placement in the industry expands your real-world experience. During this time, you make valuable industry contacts.
Graduates may find positions in administration and/or sales and marketing in retirement communities, long-term care facilities, and hospitals.
Admissions
Curriculum
Level: 01
- HOS0031 Recreation/Lifestyle and Hospitality Management
- MGT0104 Retirement Community Management
- MGT0105 Financial and Business Management
- MGT0109 Human Resources Management
- MKT0014 Sales and Marketing for Retirement Communities
Level: 02
- ENL0075 Communication and Customer Services
- ENV0020 Environmental Services
- FLD0005 Field Placement: Retirement Community Management
- HOS0034 Resident Care Best Practices
- LAW0036 Retirement Communities Legislation and Regulatory Bodies
- MGT0106 Entrepreneurship
Program Outcome
Credential: Ontario College Graduate Certificate
Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:
- Plan and implement strategies and leadership practices in the retirement communities sector to enhance operations.
- Analyze, forecast, and budget revenue and expense targets, to recommend effective strategies for the organization.
- Develop and promote sales and marketing strategies to attract and retain suitable seniors to retirement communities.
- Design and implement facilities management, continuous quality improvement, life safety and environmental capacity plans, for the effective operation of a retirement community.
- Enhance employee and management relations in accordance with ethical standards, current laws, regulations and professional needs, to establish a human resource management framework.
- Identify and promote awareness of the psychological, physiological, social and spiritual needs of seniors.
- Assess, plan, and implement proper nutrition standards for residents.
- Communicate effectively with staff, family and residents to create a caring and inclusive environment.
- Coordinate and manage human and physical resources present in a retirement community.
- Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.
Career Opportunities
Graduates enhance their existing practice, expand career opportunities and remain current to work in the retirement community field. Graduates possessing previous related experience may find entry-level positions contributing to retirement communities as retirement community assistant managers, administrators or program leads in health related fields - administration, human resources management and long-term care associated non-clinical administration.
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