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- [Options Open Guide and Workshops - Five Years and Growing!](https://collaborativeaging.com/2025/02/20/options-open-guide-and-workshops-five-years-and-growing/) - It is exciting to share 2024 Edition of the Options Open Guide, marked the beginning of our 5th year in action! Based on the contents of the Options Open Guide, we have led hundreds of workshops, community conversations, book club talks, and many different groups have joined our five-part workshop series. We have reached thousands
- [Conversational Workshops Open Up the Options!](https://collaborativeaging.com/2022/03/08/conversations-open-up-our-options/) - Over the last few years, our team at Collaborative Aging has been holding various types of virtual workshops and seminars about the Options Open guide. Our small group conversational workshops held in North America have been really well received. A couple of testimonials: When it comes to aging, most of us prefer to avoid the
- [Lessons on Aging in the Time of Covid: Keep Your Options Open!](https://collaborativeaging.com/2021/02/22/lessons-on-aging-in-the-time-of-covid-keep-your-options-open/) - The last twelve months of the global COVID pandemic have been a “game changer” in everybody’s lives. However, it has been especially devastating for seniors, particularly those living in residential or care facilities. This period of immense hardship and loss for seniors and their caregivers galvanized me to finish my book! I am proud to
- [PART 2: Two generations’ view on the aging process](https://collaborativeaging.com/2021/07/14/part-2-two-generations-view-on-the-aging-process/) - We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. --Gloria Steinem The aging process is a topic that many do not want to discuss. It is considered taboo, and if you bring up the topic with your peers, they may pour some more wine, or break
- [Two generations’ view on the aging process](https://collaborativeaging.com/2021/07/07/two-generations-view-on-the-aging-process/) - We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. --Gloria Steinem The aging process is a topic that many do not want to discuss. It is considered taboo, and if you bring up the topic with your peers, they may pour some more wine, or break
- [NEGLECT. ABUSE. CRISIS. REVIEW. REPEAT… IT'S TIME TO BREAK THE CYCLE](https://collaborativeaging.com/2020/05/27/neglect-abuse-crisis-review-repeat-its-time-to-break-the-cycle/) - May 27, 2020 For many years, the long-term care home system in Ontario, (and other provinces), has struggled with a host of systemic under-funding, physical design and staffing challenges in meeting the dramatically increasing health complexity, heavy care and medical requirements and mental health needs of their residents. Almost 70% of the residents in Long-Term Care
- [Priorities in the Time of COVID-19](https://collaborativeaging.com/2020/04/13/priorities-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - April 13, 2020, by Sue Lantz, Managing Director COVID-19 is causing ravaging damage to the people who live and work in various types of residential and institutional settings serving seniors and people with disabilities. The question is, why are we not going full force to protect these residents and the dedicated front-line staff who are
- [Compassion in the Time of COVID-19](https://collaborativeaging.com/2020/04/07/compassion-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - I read with dismay today's opinion article by Andre Picard in the Globe and Mail. The article chronicles the nightmares of COVID-19 for the residents, front-line staff and caregivers of seniors in the publicly-funded long-term care homes and also many retirement and senior residences as well. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-if-you-can-get-your-relatives-out-of-seniors-homes-try-to-do-so-as/ The article highlights the long-standing structural, funding, staff levels and
- [Marilyn's Home Modification Story: Proactive Planning to Age in the Place of Your Choice...](https://collaborativeaging.com/2018/11/26/marilyn-story-modifying-your-home-or-condo-to-age-in-the-place-of-your-choice/) - Marilyn's story is about proactive planning for Aging in Place by outfitting your home for accessibility and safety. Her wise planning choices are now enabling her to stay in the place that she loves. Here is her story... Marilyn and her late husband bought their condominium in mid-town Toronto in 2002. They had lived in
- [Co-Housing...Let's Drink to That!](https://collaborativeaging.com/2018/10/25/co-housing-lets-drink-to-that/) - What fun it was to participate in last weekend's workshop hosted by the Wine on the Porch Co-Housing Team in Toronto! All of the participants and speakers explored the benefits and challenges of creating a shared housing or co-housing community. We learned about real-life examples where people are living in a co-housing arrangement. Our facilitator
- [Are you a Boomer who is Thinking about Moving in the Next Few Years?](https://collaborativeaging.com/2018/07/31/are-you-a-boomer-who-is-thinking-about-moving-in-the-next-few-years/) - If your answer is YES, come to a workshop to learn more about the collaborative housing options that might work for you! Most of us know whether we can afford to rent or buy a place. But, we don’t know about the benefits and features of the full range of options, including co-operative rental housing
- [Family Caregivers Need More supports to Prevent Isolation and Burn Out!](https://collaborativeaging.com/2018/06/26/family-caregivers-urgently-need-more-supports-to-prevent-burn-out/) - According to a Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) report released today, the distress levels of informal (unpaid) caregivers of individuals with dementia are dramatically on the rise, and their own health is on the decline. The Alzheimer Society of York Region has just released a solution-oriented Framework to help plan vital changes in the
- [Starting the Conversation: "Where" and "How" we want to Age in Place](https://collaborativeaging.com/2017/06/29/starting-the-conversation-where-and-how-we-want-to-age-in-place/) - Aging in Place
- [A New Framework for Improving Supports to Caregivers](https://collaborativeaging.com/2017/06/09/a-new-framework-for-improving-supports-to-caregivers/) - Improving supports to caregivers and seniors to Age in Place
- [Living Longer at Home…It Takes Collaborative Planning](https://collaborativeaging.com/2017/03/30/living-longer-at-homeit-takes-collaborative-planning/) - In most surveys conducted in North America, seniors state a desire to age in the community and stay in their own home. Given our longer lifespans, this means living up to 25-30 years after retiring from formal paid work. Yet, during my career as a healthcare consultant within home and community care for seniors, I
- [Welcome to Collaborative Aging...](https://collaborativeaging.com/2016/09/29/testing-the-blog/) - Join in on a different conversation about boomers aging! By now, many of us who are in the baby boomer generation have helped our parents through the transitions of aging, and are now at a place where we realize that we would like a different experience. But, the question is “how”? What steps can we

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- [Home](https://collaborativeaging.com/) - Collaborative Aging provides educational resources to support seniors to proactively plan their aging, including co-designing innovative options for healthy aging.
- [News and Stories](https://collaborativeaging.com/news-and-stories/) - Follow us on Instagram at: optionsopenguide PURCHASE THE 2024 EDITION OF THE "OPTIONS OPEN" GUIDEBOOK: https://kkdpc.orderprintnow.com/ProductList.aspx?PortalId=41aa19de-a753-4762-8c9e-84f25fbc1e4f RECENT NATIONAL POLICY REPORTS: Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (A "NORC") Sue Lantz contributed to the 2022 National report in Canada on the NORC model called, "It's Time to Unleash the Power of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in Canada" https://norcinnovationcentre.ca/wp-content/uploads/NORC-Report-FINAL.pdf Citizen-Led
- [Options Open Guide](https://collaborativeaging.com/designs-for-health-2/) - Collaborative Aging specializes in designs for health and creating housing cooperatives. Contact us to learn how we can help those in need of care.
- [Concept](https://collaborativeaging.com/age-friendly-community-planning/) - Collaborative Aging specializes in Age Friendly Community Planning and Accessible Home Design. Contact us to learn how we can help your organization.
- [About Us](https://collaborativeaging.com/founder/) - Our Forward Looking Focus - Collaborative Aging offers educational and navigational services that help people discover future plans for aging well and balanced caregiving. We help individuals and families make informed decisions and navigate to the right arrangements, in a timely way. This proactive approach allows more agency over your choices, while also preventing problems
- [Workshops](https://collaborativeaging.com/caregiver-solutions/) - Collaborative Aging specializes in providing caregiver solutions and education. We create neighborhood networks for organizations to help plan for aging.
- [Contact](https://collaborativeaging.com/contact/) - For all enquiries including media: Email: sue@collaborativeaging.com Phone: 416-938-6064 Or connect via Linked In . Follow us on Instagram @optionsopenguide
- [Benefits](https://collaborativeaging.com/age-friendly-community-planning/benefits-3/) - Collaborative Aging specializes in Advance healthcare planning, helping people with health self management. Contact us to learn how we can help your organization.
- [Community-Led Housing and Networks](https://collaborativeaging.com/participate/) - Neighbourhood Networks, NORC model, Vertical Aging,

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