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Retirement home Posts

CARP’s Sprinkler Retrofit Campaign Update

February 26, 2015

What has happened since the fire tragedy of L’Isle Verte nursing home: CARP Update In the weeks prior to the ...

Not Just a Bed – A Home

August 9, 2014

As we age and become more fragile, our needs can become too great to stay where we would prefer to be - in our own ...

Moving your Parents into a Retirement Residence

June 26, 2014

CARP ETOBICOKE PRESENTATION - St. George's Golf Club. LIFE INTERRUPTED - MOVING YOUR PARENTS. Challenges of Change ...

Ask an MD-PhD: Extending Life, Not Misery

December 6, 2013

 Most of us assume that aging equals illness. To be honest about it, we don’t usually put it that bluntly and we ...

How One Group of Seniors Bucked Convention and Avoided the Retirement Home

August 9, 2013

Seniors in Boston's Beacon Hill enjoy each other's company at a social organized by a nonprofit they created to help ...

Caregiver’s Diary: Life At Serenity Towers

April 19, 2012

Life At Serenity Towers Youngest sister is my widowed 88 year old father’s caregiver; I’m just an occasional ...

Licensing of Ontario retirement homes begins

April 18, 2012

This article was published by The Toronto Star on April 16th 2012.  To see this article and other related articles ...

Kindergarten in a retirement home proves a hit with young and old

January 13, 2012

This article was initially published in the Globe and Mail on December 30th 2011.  To view the story on the Globe and ...

Caregiver’s Diary: Home At Last

December 21, 2011

I just got an e-mail from youngest sister, with a one-word subject line - “settled”. It was the best news I had ...

Caregiver's Diary: Home At Last

December 21, 2011

I just got an e-mail from youngest sister, with a one-word subject line - “settled”. It was the best news I had ...