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Dealing with the Guilt of Moving a Loved One to a Retirement Community: When Promises Meet Reality
Few decisions in life are as emotionally complicated as moving a loved one into a retirement or memory care community — especially when that person can no longer make the decision for themselves due to cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s or dementia. What makes...
Let Them Choose: Why Your Loved One Should Pick Their Own Retirement Community — and Their Own Unit
Choosing a retirement community is a deeply personal decision—one that can shape the quality of someone’s life for years to come. Yet, too often, well-meaning family members take the lead, driven by their own vision of comfort, safety, and convenience. While...
Staying Safe in the Heat: How Older Adults Can Enjoy Summer with Confidence
Staying Safe in the Heat: How Older Adults Can Enjoy Summer with ConfidenceWhy seniors are more affected by heat—and what families and caregivers can do. As temperatures climb across Canada and the United States, healthcare experts are reminding families to take extra...
Helping a Loved One Transition to Retirement Living
A Guide for Families Supporting a loved one as they prepare to move into retirement living is a journey often markedby emotion, reflection, and many important conversations. It’s a significant life transition—notonly for the individual making the move, but also for...
The Journey to Senior Living: When and How to Start the Conversation
The Journey to Senior Living: When and How to Start the Conversation Deciding to move into a senior living community is a significant life transition that often comes with a mix of emotions—relief, uncertainty, fear, and hesitation. For many families, the most...
Needing a Rapid Response Solution
Needing a Rapid Response Solution AT Solva we’re great advocates for planning ahead and being as proactive as possible. We’re also great advocates for being able to stay in your home as long as it's healthy and safe. But sometimes, even with the best will in the...
Retirement Home Due Dilligence
Do Your Retirement Home Research Due Diligence! By Caroline Inman IN the more than 11 years that Solva has been supporting seniors and families here in Ottawa, we’ve conservatively helped many hundreds of ladies and gentlemen find their new retirement home. Our role...
Your ABC for Future Eldercare
I FIND it fascinating that as human beings we plan for life and we plan for death but we typically don’t plan for aging or more specifically advanced aging. This is short sighted, because advanced aging is when you really do want to have a voice and there are many...
Temporary Help Agencies Require a License to Operate
NEW rules from the provincial government from 1 July 2024 state companies in Ontario that provide temporary help to their clients, need to be licensed and many businesses and their clients are not aware! In our seniors housing and eldercare world, ‘temporary help’...
Considerations when moving to memory care in Ottawa
Considerations When Choosing Memory Care by Caroline Inman If your loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, or if you’re noticing brain change with them, it’s normal to wonder how they will continue to cope at home and what the future for care and support...