Housing Options For Older Canadians

Supportive housing helps seniors in their daily living by combining a physical environment that is specifically designed to be safe, secure, enabling and home-like with support services such as meals, housekeeping and social and recreational activities. This document describes trends that indicate a growing demand for supportive housing, outlines the key components of supportive housing and provides success tips for supportive housing developers.

This guide is intended to help a wide variety of organizations (such as service clubs, religious & ethnic organizations, and neighbourhood groups) become more active in seniors' housing in their communities. Part 1 describes seniors' housing preferences & options and presents an overview of the way that seniors' housing is developed & managed in Canada. Part 2 contains a framework for action to help a group get organized, with advice on understanding community housing needs and how to raise funds to help finance community group activities. The final part reviews three broad approaches to meeting seniors' housing needs that could be used by community groups throughout Canada.

This book is a guide for individuals and organisations who want to design, develop, market, manage and sponsor housing for the "over-55" in Canada.