Toronto Star - Are you going to die alone? Be a burden to your family? In New York they do aging better. Why is Ontario missing the obvious?

If governments pushed for Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) with supportive service programs, many of the current stresses on the health-care system would be alleviated, Dr. Samir Sinha, the NIA’s Director of Health Policy Research, tells Moira Welsh of the Toronto Star.

“Given the role that NORCs and NORC-based programs could play to significantly enable ageing in the right place for hundreds of thousands of older Canadians, a National Strategy that pushes governments, housing providers and citizens to make these a reality is key to the sustainability of Canada’s health-care system,” Sinha says.