Continuing Care Toronto
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Many Toronto retirement homes offer a continuum of care that ranges from independent living to long term care. This allows seniors to move into a home where they can age in place and not have to worry about moving again. If they move into a continuing care retirement residence while they are still independent, this choice wisely anticipates changes in the seniors' care needs.
Toronto Continuing Care Homes & Services
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The Briton House
Family-owned and operated, the Briton House is dedicated to the highest standards of service. Offering a full continuum of care, a variety of amenities and suites, home-cooked meals, and a 15,000 sq. ft. indoor garden.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Hazelton Place Retirement Residence
Luxury and quality is in every corner of Hazelton from its lobby to its inviting Bistro & Bar. Offering amenities and services, Hazelton makes it easy for you to define and enjoy your lifestyle.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Canterbury Place Retirement Residence
Canterbury Place offers a variety of suites styles in an elegant condo-like building for active adults & those needing assistance. We offer a unique healthcare program for our residents including palliative care.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Don Mills Retirement Residence
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Forestview Retirement Residence
Forestview Retirement Residence is North York's newest seniors' residence. We offer Independent Lifestyle and Full Service Assisted Living Accommodations and Services, plus Short Term and Respite Stays.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The Dunfield Retirement Residence
The Dunfield Retirement Residence has established a new standard in senior retirement living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) with 177 spacious apartments. Where people come to LIVE!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Baycrest Terraces
We are Toronto's Finest Kosher Retirement Residence. Located on the Baycrest campus in the heart of North York's Jewish community. Baycrest Terraces, "Where Life Thrives". Call us today for more information.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Metta Lifestyles Greenview Retirement
At Greenview Residence, we offer a complete range of care services in a welcoming environment. Whether it's our compassionate staff, fresh homemade meals, or exciting and engaging activities, you will truly feel at home.
Lifestyle Options: Assisted Living, Memory Care
Metta Lifestyles Queens Estate Retirement
At Queens Estate, we offer a complete range of care services in a welcoming environment. Whether it's our compassionate staff, fresh homemade meals, or exciting and engaging activities, you will truly feel at home.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Tapestry at Village Gate West
Tapestry at Village Gate West is an active aging community located in Toronto’s central Etobicoke neighbourhood, just minutes from the historic Village of Islington.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The Village of Humber Heights
The Village of Humber Heights in Etobicoke offers different levels of service from independent apartments with meals to assisted living to long-term care.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long-term care
New Horizons Tower
From gracious dining to new suites and lounges, residents are enjoying the new management and upgrades found at 1140 Bloor Street West, in the Heart of Bloordale Village.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Delmanor Prince Edward
Situated in a treed ravine setting overlooking the Humber River, Delmanor Prince Edward provides vistas that vary from the serenity of the adjacent valley to the resplendence of the Toronto downtown skyline!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Parkland on Eglinton West
Parkland on Eglinton West offers Lifestyle Apartments, All-Inclusive Lifestyle and Supportive Lifestyle options for seniors. Parkland makes it easy for you to do more of what you love!
Lifestyle Options: Apartments, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Chartwell Grenadier Retirement Residence
A safe and rewarding lifestyle in a Toronto seniors housing community you're proud to call home.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The following communities are just outside of Toronto proper
Metta Lifestyles McCowan Retirement Residence
McCowan Retirement Residence is a vibrant and family oriented retirement home located in Scarborough. With team members who have been here since we opened in 2004, you can expect a warm welcome and a feeling of home.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Four Elms Retirement Residence
Four Elms is an elegant Retirement Residence offering the finest in Senior Living. Choose a suite style that is perfect for you and enjoy an active lifestyle, fine dining and the company of good friends.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Richmond Hill Retirement Residence
Richmond Hill Retirement Residence offers full service including meals, housekeeping, active adult, independent and assisted living. Our focus is on maintaining good health, great food, new friends & lots of laughter!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Port Credit Residences
Port Credit Residence situated in the Mississauga area offers seniors a luxurious resort-inspired lifestyle. Enjoy an oversized pool, wellness centre, onsite physiotherapy, a movie theatre, library, spa/salon and more!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Evergreen Retirement Community
Stylish Mississauga retirement home offering independent, full-service and assisted living lifestyles, featuring a hair salon, onsite bistro and much more.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The Shores of Port Credit
The Shores is designed for vibrant living with the highest quality of personal care. Amenities include pool, fitness & exercise club, restaurant, bistro & cafe, a golf simulator lounge & wine cellar.
Lifestyle Options: Apartments, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Credit River
Credit River is a 6-storey condo style residence, with an array of well-appointed suite styles to choose from and our highly-skilled health care professionals are available around the clock if you need them.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Sifton - Erinview
Located in the heart of Mississauga, Erinview offers an atmosphere of worry-free, comfortable living with personalized support in the presence of good friends.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Aspira Bolton Mills Retirement Living
A short drive from the Nashville Conservation Reserve and surrounded by golf courses, Aspira Bolton Mills is perfect for anyone who loves the outdoors.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Stouffville Creek Retirement Residence
Stouffville Creek is a cozy & comfortable place to call home. Everyone is on a first name basis, and the food is exceptional. A short drive north of Toronto, close to major highways, shops, stores & nature trails.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The Village of Erin Meadows
Mississauga's unique continuum of care concept featuring Independent Living Suites, Retirement Apartments, Full Service Suites with walk out patios, Assisted Care, Memory Care and Long Term Care.
Lifestyle Options: Apartments, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
The Roxborough Retirement Residence
You'll feel warmth as soon as you walk through the door. The Roxborough Retirement Residence is both elegant and cozy with a dedicated and caring staff that go above and beyond for your well-being and happiness.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
The Village of Taunton Mills
The Village of Taunton Mills in Whitby presents several levels of service from seniors' apartments with meals to assisted living to long-term care.
Lifestyle Options: Apartments, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
The Village of Tansley Woods
At The Village of Tansley Woods we offer the full continuum of care - Independent Living Suites, Retirement Apartments, Full Service Retirement Suites, Assisted Care, Memory Care and Long Term Care all in one village.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long-term care
Retirement Suites By The Lake
Part of Scarborough history - located in the Bluffs/Beaches neighbourhood, where the White Castle Inn used to stand. Respite recovery, trial stays and winter retreats are all available, to help meet your wants and needs!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Shepherd Terrace
Shepherd Terrace offers a variety of independent and assisted living suites within the renowned Shepherd Village. With its long history of providing caring service you’ll love the amenities and the excellent services.
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
Home Care companies in East York,Etobicoke,North York,Toronto and area.
Qualicare
Qualicare offers reliable and consistent caregivers and nursing for patients with medical, dementia, and mobility challenges. We also support people during and after hospital stays and within assisted living residences.
Lifestyle Options: Respite care, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long-term care, Home Care
Nurse Next Door Toronto Beaches
Nurse Next Door Toronto Beaches provides compassionate 24 hour personalized senior care services with bonded, registered & licensed Nurses / RPN's, in your home, hospital, rehab, LTC & retirement communities.
Lifestyle Options: Respite care, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long-term care, Home Care
A closer look at continuous care communities
The care offered in these homes will include independent or assisted living, and will extend to things like catheter care and other tube care. A number of these progressive-minded communities have long term care facilities onsite or conveniently nearby. A number of recent developments in the Greater Toronto Area stand as excellent examples of planned communities where seniors can move in when they are still very independent and can age in place, as further kinds of care are also available onsite. Parkland on the Glen in Mississauga is one uniquely flexible environment where people can purchase condo ownership and live independently then move lager to a dedicated assisted floor in the same building.
These continuing care communities contrast with other retirement residences in the city that focus on a specific type of care. For example, Delmanor Prince Edward in Etobicoke focuses mainly on independent living. A number of newer facilities springing up in Toronto and elsewhere in the GTA are designed for memory care and are focused exclusively on care for dementia. Many long-term care communities throughout the city are also stand alone.
There are some great advantages offered by a continuum of all levels of care on one campus. Continuing care communities create a village-style atmosphere where people of many different abilities can all congregate. They also allow couples to remain in close proximity, though their care needs may be very different from each other.
As the population of Toronto (and every city) ages, there are increasingly distinctive, smarter, integrative approaches to care and community. Active lifestyle communities are adapting their model to allow for care to be provided to community members as they age. Large, new planned communities look ahead to the coming age crunch, and are built likewise. For example, health care facilities may be part of a planned bungalow community tailored to those 55 and older. In its own way, this type of community might be considered next generation "continuing care."
What is continuing care?
Continuing care is defined differently by different authorities. The definition we are working with is a continuum of senior care offered under one roof, ranging ideally from independent living to long term care. The phrase "complex continuing care" is used by some other health authorities to mean something distinct (see our glossary). Still, some health care facilities within retirement communities offer rehabilitation and ongoing care for clients with chronic conditions ranging from stroke recovery to diabetes to recovery from other surgeries. This convalescent continuing care is considered a non-permanent stay. As the health care and senior care industries evolve, expect to see more of this integrated approach to care, rehabilitation, and senior living.
The phrase is also used by home care service providers to define the service they offer.
Continuing care at home, in Toronto
A number of Toronto home care agencies offer continuing care at home. In this case, health services are delivered in the home, allowing seniors to remain independent in their own house, while having basic care needs covered. In Toronto and elsewhere in the province, the LHIN has difficulty keeping up with demand, so they welcome the idea of seniors hiring private home care.
This care may be a continuation of previous health care offered in a hospital or clinical setting. Care services available include care with bathing, dressing, transferring and other help within the home. There are further advantages to this, including companionship services, like grocery shopping and even simple things like going for walks. This type of care in the home is encouraging for seniors, allowing them to continue healing. Many people find this to be a "best of both worlds" scenario, where they get the care they need but remain in the home they love.