Yee Hong is excited and honoured to have received $1.5M in national grants to support two aging in place initiatives for seniors.
The first is our Age Well at Home Project. Thanks to a $1.1M grant from the Federal Government, we are moving ahead with the implementation of a two-year project that will provide three aging at home services:
- System Navigation Services to facilitate seniors to apply for seniors related services (e.g., old age allowance, seniors housing, long-term care, etc.)
- Fall prevention clinics
- Home maintenance services.
This Age Well at Home Project is designed to fill the current services gap. To overcome language barriers, its services will be provided services Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
The second program is our “Online Dementia Hub.” We are grateful to receive $300,000 in funding from the Federal Government to develop an Online Dementia Hub for Chinese residents in Canada that will provide information and services related to Dementia in different cities across Canada. We are working with our IT team and the research team at the University of Toronto to develop this innovative and interactive website and hope to launch it in early 2024.
We are proud to be moving ahead with these initiatives and eager to see them make an impact in the lives of seniors throughout our community. For details on either program, we invite you to call our Yee Hong information and referral hotline at 416-412-4570.