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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...
Knowledge and Understanding is Everything by Caroline Inman In our last article we discussed important factors to consider when choosing your Seniors’ Housing Advisor. This included understanding how they worked, whether they offered a free or paid for service,...
How to Select a Senior Living Advisor
What You Need to Know when Selecting a Senior Living Advisor As our population ages, so grows the senior housing sector. Over the coming years, you will doubtless see an assortment of new options, lifestyles and care offerings from retirement homes, senior...
Short Term, Respite or Permanent Stays
Short term, Respite and Permanent Stays by Caroline Inman Although not a hotel, a retirement home can provide temporary, short stays if needed. Here’s a look at why you might need one and what the difference is to being a permanent resident. Retirement homes...
Is There a ‘Right Age’ for Retirement Living?
Is There a ‘Right Age’ for Retirement Living? By Caroline Inman IN a nutshell, we don’t think so; it’s all about YOU! For the most part, retirement homes are for the over 65s. There is an Ontario law which came into practice in 2010 - The Retirement Homes Act -...