How much do retirement homes cost in Ottawa? What makes one retirement home more expensive than another? Why does one person pay almost twice as much as her friend, who lives in the same residence? There are many factors that affect the cost of retirement living. The average person spends somewhere between $3,000 and $6,000…
“Unprecedented” might be the word of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for many, especially older adults, life has taken many abrupt turns. Maybe it’s their first pandemic, but it’s not the first time they’ve pivoted without calling it that and created a new normal. Yet, we persist in treating people over 70 as an undifferentiated blob…
Every year we pull out our box of receipts, files of documents, a calculator and a bottle of ibuprofen, and we get ready to do our taxes. And every year, it seems just as complicated, if not more, than the last. To make things a little easier, here are a few important items that should…