A little help makes a big difference

There's no place like home. And despite the issues that come with age, a little bit of support is often all it takes to keep many seniors there.

"We have an aging population. If everybody needed to live in a long-term care residence and wanted to, the cost to society and government would be huge," says Kerby Centre CEO Larry Mathieson. "But the vast majority want to live at home and stay at home." He says a wide range of in-home supports available today make that more possible than it was decades ago, meaning more people "get to live how they want to live and age the way they want to age."

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