How to use home equity in retirement is potentially as important a decision as what to do with your investment portfolio.
To use your HELOC wisely, you need to stick to a plan to pay it off fully, and avoid continually borrowing against your home equity. Important considerations for House Rich, Cash Poor Older Adults in Canada
What is a reverse mortgage?, costs, risks pros and cons from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.
Nice has compiled an online library of resources and information tools on Aging in Canada. Topics: caregiving, mental health, finance, legal, elder abuse, physical health & addiction.
Special Challenges for Parents who Are the Primary FTD Caregivers. When your spouse is diagnosed with a terminal, degenerative illness, you suffer relentless, devastating loss with no apparent resolution long before that person’s physical death.
The following room-by-room checklist can help you identify potential hazards in an older person’s home.
As a senior 65 years or older in New Brunswick, you could qualify for a tax credit to help with the cost of making your home safer and more accessible.
This guide (PDF) produced by the Canadian Government provides advice on how to prevent injuries by keeping your home, yourself and your environment as safe as you can.
Infographic showing potential changes to make a home easier and safer to live in for Older Adults.
Find out if you are eligible for a tax credit to help low- to moderate-income seniors with eligible medical expenses, including expenses that support aging at home.
In 2016, 93% of Canadian seniors were living in private households, while 7% were living in collective dwellings
How to accurately measure your blood pressure at home.
Similar to long-term care residence monitoring, the program will monitor older adults in their homes for medication adherence, fall detection, wandering, and vitals as needed.
Long-term care homes in Canada: How many and who owns them? The infographic includes information on homes where health care is either entirely or partially funded by the provincial or territorial government.
Presenter: Jane E. Meadus, Staff Lawyer & Institutional Advocate, The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness – whatever the diagnosis. Care can be provided wherever the client is living, whether at home, in hospice, an assisted living residence or a long-term care home.
Find, review and get in touch about research studies in Toronto from the comfort of your home.
Eligible senior homeowners can defer all or part of their municipal property taxes with a low-interest home equity loan.
The seniors' property tax deferment program allows you to postpone paying your property taxes. You can defer up to 75% of the assessed value of your home.
Aging in place means having the support and services to live safely and independently in your home and community for as long as you wish and are able.
The Senior Fuel Subsidy is a program that helps to offset the high cost of heating fuel for seniors who own and live in their homes.
Healthy Aging CORE (Collaborative Online Resources and Education)
We offer Information Tools and Online Resources based on 20 years of research into the challenges of aging in Canada.
Before an adult is admitted into a care facility, it is required by law that consent is obtained for their admission. An adult may be incapable of giving or refusing consent because they are unable to understand the information they are provided to make the decision.
If you are seeking medical assistance in dying you should speak with your doctor, nurse practitioner or local health authority’s care co-ordination service for medical assistance in dying.
Seniors infographic – 2021 From: Employment and Social Development Canada
Add your online resource, survey, video, announcement or event to the (NICE) National Initiative for Care of the Elderly website.
The primary source of income for older adults (65+) is provided by the Government of Canada through the Guaranteed Income Supplement and Old Age Security. To supplement these programs the Government of Alberta provides additional supports and services:
