Searching for Housing For Seniors

Social Housing. Phase 1: one and two bedroom apartments, Phase 2: one bedroom apartments including meals, housekeeping and laundry, Phase 3: one bedroom and bed sitting rooms including meals, housekeeping and laundry.

• Supportive Housing program available to tenants meeting the criteria.
• Rent geared to income available in all Phases to qualifying tenants.
• Designated Care Home with a smoke free policy.

Independent life-lease living options for seniors

• 45-apartment style and 20 bungalow-style units.
• Personal care and assistance with activities of daily living offered by Home and Community Support Services Central and Community Home Assistance to Seniors (CHATS) - click HERE to view the assistance offered
• Located next to Parkview Village Centre, which provides fitness / wellness centre, recreational activities, health seminars, café, barber/hairdresser shop, library, lounges, patios, and garden lots

Supportive Housing with capacity for 50 residents * Ratio of one personal support worker and one RPN per 50 residents. Services include:

• personal care
• homemaking
• laundry
• security checks
• meals
• medication reminders

Designated supportive housing building with 133, one and two-bedroom apartments with 24-hour on-site personal care and support services to assist frail seniors and adults with physical and multiple disabilities * units are wheelchair accessible and many are available for rent-geared-to income subsidies * support services such as
personal care, bathing, housekeeping and medical escorting are offered

Retirement and assisted living community home * respite available * primary clientele is seniors from the Sri Lankan Tamil community.

Services include:

• transportation to medical appointments or social gatherings
• meal preparation
• housekeeping and laundry
• companionship and personal care

Independent living options for seniors * 72 Life Lease Suites * one or two bedroom suites, exercise room in building, 3 stories, park like setting

COVID-19 -- maintain all essential services including supportive housing, assisted living, home care, transportation for essential visits, providing hot meals, frozen meals and food hampers to seniors and people needing isolation

• Transitional Care Centre -- regular service, visits (in person for family and caregiver with appointment)
• also available via phone/virtually telephone reassurance, supportive counselling and service coordination
• Family Health Organization, GAIN Community Team
• Adult Day Program -- in person and virtual care
• Diabetes Education Program -- assessment, consultation, group education
• Wellness and Community Development Program -- in person and virtual platform
• Vocational Training Centre -- in person and virtual platform

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Adult Day Program -- Monday-Friday 9:30 am-3:30 pm, weekday extended hours, Saturday 10 am-3 pm, available in Scarborough and Richmond Hill

• for persons 55 years and older with special needs, such as physical frailty or mild memory impairment, in need of supervised, structured setting
• social and recreation activities, lunch, snack
• personal care and health related services -- exercise, foot care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, massage therapy
• transportation available

Chinese Bereavement Services -- culturally specific bereavement services, individual support and self help group

• public education, seminars, workshops, information and referral

Chronic Disease Self Management Program -- 6 week workshop for adults with chronic medical conditions such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, asthma, bronchitis

• individual counselling with nurse, dietitian and social worker
• health and education workshops, seminars
• caregiver education and support
• information and referral
• workshop licensed by Self-Management Resource Centre

Community Outreach -- outreach programs for those living in seniors apartments and suburban areas, retirement groups,seniors self help groups

• community, wellness and health education
• caregiver support, volunteer development

Community support services -- escort to medical appointments, telephone security checks, friendly visiting, hospice visiting, grocery shopping, client intervention and assistance -- free

• congregate dining -- fee, subsidies available
• transportation -- fee
• referrals, follow up

Elder Abuse Prevention Program -- Chinese Elder Abuse Helpline 416-502-2321, elder abuse education, supportive counselling

Geriatric Assessment & Intervention Network (GAIN) Community Team -- wrap around supported care and services with individualized comprehensive geriatric assessment

• intensive case management, personalized care plan
• service navigation

Home care services -- home help, homemaking, respite care, palliative care -- fee

Personal Care Program -- for seniors living in the community requiring higher level of care, care coordination, scheduled and unscheduled personal support workers' visit, security check

Transitional Care Respite Stay Program -- short stay transitional care for individuals recuperating from illness/hospitalization and respite (caregiver relief) -- fee

Integrated Dialysis Care Program -- Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses visit home peritoneal dialysis patients at their home

• health maintenance, nutritional counselling

Supportive housing services -- for seniors requiring higher level of care, 24 hour on site services at Alexandra Park Apartments and Tam O'Shanter Towers, emergency response services

Wellness and Social Program -- social, recreational and educational programs for persons 50 years and older, drop-in centre, friendship groups, interest classes, outings

Retirement Home Seniors Apartments and Life Lease Residence providing a Christian environment which meets the physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs or residents. Accommodation and services at:

• Shepherd Lodge and Shepherd Terrace Long Term Care Facilities (see separate entries)
• Shepherd Terrace Retirement Suites
• Shepherd Manor Seniors Apartments
• Shepherd Gardens Life Lease Residences. The home is a designated Pentecostal facility.

Services and Programs:

• Shepherd Gardens - Life Lease
• Shepherd Lodge - Long Term Care Home
• Shepherd Manor - Seniors Apartments
• Shepherd Terrace - Retirement Residence

Life lease facility * 115 one and two bedroom suites ranging in size from 679 to 1284 square feet * it is located close to hospitals, churches, Agincourt Court Mall, the public library and Tam O'Shanter Golf Course

Suites feature:

• living and dining room
• eat-in kitchen
• heated solarium
• storage and closet
• laundry closet with rough-in for clothes washer and dryer
• ensuite bathroom off of master bedroom
• heating and air conditioning
• mart-metered electrical service

Amenities include:

• Resident lounges and social rooms
• Games, exercise and reading rooms
• Main floor common room with kitchen
• Coin-operated laundry rooms on the second and fifth floors
• Workshop/crafts/hobby room
• Car wash bay
• Garbage chute and Recycling room
• Exercise and fitness rooms
• Bike and scooter storage
• Resident storage lockers
• Two elevators
• Security entrance system
• Underground parking
• TV monitored security surveillance in lobby and parking garage
• Lush landscaped grounds
• Wheelchair accessible common

263 seniors one and two bedroom apartments * 66 apartments available on a rent geared to income basis * building amenities include:

• lounge on each floor
• landscaped garden courtyard
• multi-purpose recreation room
• heated indoor swimming pool
• fitness room
• on-site hair salon
• coin-operated laundry rooms and library

Each apartment has a 4-piece bathroom with grab bars, kitchenette with a stove, refrigerator, sink and pantry (or separate kitchen in some rooms), convenient storage closet, private balcony, individual base-board heating thermostat, wall-to-wall carpeting, window drapes, wall sleeve for air conditioning unit, entry phone, and security channel viewing

Professional wellness services with access to numerous health services such as foot care, vision care, hearing, dental, ultrasound, dermatologist, dietician, massage therapy, Alzheimer Clinic and organized outings and events are also offered

144 Suites Retirement Residence offering independent and assisted living * Christian environment

Assisted Living (Floors 3-5) - Offers single and double occupancy suites, ranging from 215 to 590 square feet with three meals per day and snacks, weekly housekeeping and laundry of linens and towels, emergency response and some care included. Additional care support available for a fee.

Retirement Living (Second Floor) - Offers single and double occupancy suites ranging from 256 to 757 square feet with three meals per day and snacks, weekly housekeeping and laundry of linens and towels, and emergency response included. Care support available for additional fees.

Designated supportive housing building with 24-hour on-site personal care and support services to assist frail older adults 65 years and older and adults with physical, functional or cognitive concerns

Eligibility for clients to receive supportive housing services is determined by the inter RAI Community Health Assessment * health care professionals, both internal and external, can make referrals for service initiation * limited supportive housing client spaces available annually

Services include:

• safety reassurance
• 24-hour emergency response
• medication reminding
• light meal preparation
• assistance with personal care
• light homemaking and laundry
• socialization
• care management
• supervised exercise

Abbeyfield House Toronto provides supportive housing and meals for vulnerable seniors suffering from loneliness and manageable chronic health issues (but not cognitive impairments) in a family small scale community house located in south Scarborough * availability for 10 residents.

Designated supportive housing building with daily on-site personal care and support services to assist frail adults aged 65 years and older with physical, functional or cognitive concerns

Eligibility for clients to receive supportive housing service is determined by the interRAI Community Health Assessment * health care professionals, both internal and external, can make referrals for service initiation * limited supportive housing client spaces available annually

Services include:

• safety reassurance
• assistance with personal care
• light homemaking and laundry
• light meal preparation
• medication reminding
• socialization
• case management
• supervised exercise

Designated supportive housing building with 15-hour on-site supervised care and support services to assist frail older adults and adults with physical and multiple disabilities

• essential homemaking and personal care
• 24-hour emergency response system

Services provided:

• meal preparation
• personal care
• medication reminder
• assistance with mobility
• security checks
• emergency response

Senior family home for very frail, elderly persons who need support with daily living

• capacity 10
• supportive services
• 24 hour supervision

Retirement residence offering independent and assisted living options * full service dining room and private dining room available * extensive recreation and service options available * studio, one and two bedroom suite options * located next to Don Mills seniors apartment and is accessible through an interior walkway * personally guided tours available

Provides accommodation for independent seniors and those requiring assisted living * 74 beds * long stay and short stay (minimum 60 days) available * private accommodation * Memory care, Enhanced Assisted Living, Full Continuum of care * private studios with private bathrooms

Bachelor, one and two bedrooms * for older adults who are ambulatory and able to care for themselves * 31 units * priority to Finnish and Estonian community

Life Lease apartments - Bachelor, one, two and three bedrooms * 57 units * priority to Finnish and Estonian community

Seniors apartment building operated by Toronto Community Housing Corporation * the Supportive Housing Program operates within the building and provides Assisted Living Services (ALS) to residents who currently reside in the building who are 59 years of age and older and meet the program eligibility criteria * ALS includes homemaking, personal hygiene, medication reminders, laundry, meal preparation, security checks, bed making, and changing, wellness/health promotion activities * information about tenancy should be acquired through Toronto Community Housing

Retirement home, capacity 83, includes doctors on call, nurses on duty, private accommodation, social and recreation programs

• chiropody, physiotherapy services provided by LHIN Community and Home Care
• nonsectarian
• no smoking or alcoholic beverages

Provides retirement living options and assisted living, and respite care for seniors

Covid19 -- all LOFT seniors and 24/7 adult supportive housing locations will only allow essential visitors until further notice (those who have a resident who is dying or very ill) * community and residential supports will continue


Long term supportive housing services, capacity 75

• assistance with meal preparation
• essential housekeeping
• personal care
• laundry
• medication reminders
• caregiver relief
• escort to appointments
• social and recreational activities
• crisis intervention
• emergency response
• psychogeriatric case management
• addictions support
• housing support workers

Assisted Living Hub also offered at Simon Apartments, 32 Grenville Street, Toronto, capacity 40

COVID19 -- For updates on COVID response at Baycrest, patient and visitor safety during COVID




Hospital, long term care, residential and community services for seniors * life lease apartments -- 120 units, one and two bedroom suites * research * education * Jewish environment * see other entries for specific services



Participant in Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto -- see separate entry