Category: senior adjustment
Moving To a Retirement Community? How To Cope With Change
Jun 27, 2011
Moving to a retirement residence can be stressful but it usually improves your life. ComfortLife.ca showcases the best residences and helps you make the change.
I Just Moved To A Retirement Community - How Do The Meals Work?
Jul 11, 2011
You’ve organized your suite and it feels quite comfortable. You’ve strolled the grounds enough to know your way around. There’s just one more area to conquer—the dining room.
How To Choose A Retirement Community
Jul 20, 2011Making the decision to move into a retirement community is usually a difficult one to make for retirees and for their families. Even more difficult, is the laborious process of visiting and evaluating the many different retirement communities and trying to decide which one is for you! They all look great and have various levels of services and facilities that its very easy to get caught up in the glitter and gold.
The Cost of Living And Retiring At Home
Jul 25, 2011"Living at home is free, why move?" is the most common mindset when seniors are asked about the option of moving to a retirement community. But is aging at home really free? With the unforeseen costs of in-home care assistance, home retro fitting or transportation assistance, many retirees may not realize that aging at home is not as "free" as believed especially if unanticipated health issues were to arise.
What You Need to Know about Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance
Aug 15, 2011
What is long-term care insurance, and why is it important? Statistics tell us that:
- 75% of those over 65 will need a caregiver or facility services
- 40% of people who are under 65 are either on or will be using long-term care benefits for periods of time due to accidents or illness.
When we are younger, we think we are invincible.
New Options Under The CPP Rules
Aug 29, 2011
New rules that are being phased in between now and 2016 for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will give people greater flexibility to choose when they want to begin receiving CPP benefits and on how long they can contribute to CPP after age 60. Here are some thing that you should know!
