The Ultimate Guide to Canadian Seniors’ Services

As a real estate broker in central Toronto, Vivien enjoys working with the downsizing market and assisting adult children and their senior parents make smart decisions. “There is a need for real estate professionals who show awareness, sensitivity, and expertise in dealing with this demographic. It’s not just about the real estate transaction. My goal is to help the family and discuss the best options available.” 

As a Lifestyle 55+ MASTER, Vivien belongs to a specialized network of realtors who focuses on seniors in transition. Vivien works with a network of resource specialists including lawyers, accountants, estate planners, move managers, stagers, downsizing experts, content auctioneers, caregivers, and more. 

Vivien has written a book The Boomer’s 7-Step Guide to Downsizing: Overcoming Fear & Discovering Freedom, to help Boomers and older adults through this lifestyle change. To download a free digital copy of her book visit https://www.viviensharon.com/book.

Use a reverse mortgage to pay for homecare and home accessibility renovation expenses to age-in-place.

For senior homeowners in Toronto, planning for the costs of care as you age can be challenging. While most older Canadians would prefer to remain at home in their retirement years, private care can be a very expensive option.

If you are planning to remain at home with in-home care, modifications may also need to be made to your home. Accessibility renovations including ramps, stairlifts, and other devices, as well as safety features in bathrooms and other areas within the home can be costly. 

Reverse mortgages are available to 55+ Canadians enabling them to access up to 55% of the value of their homes. Bloom reverse mortgage customers continue to own and live in their homes and reverse mortgages require no regular payments.

With significant price appreciation in homes across Ontario in recent years, many senior homeowners have substantially more resources available to them than they realize. Equity in the home can be a great solution to fund costly later-life expenses like homecare and home accessibility renovations.

A reverse mortgage can also be an ideal solution to cover the costs associated with assisting living, memory care or long-term care when needed for a spouse while allowing the other partner to remain in the home.

Reverse mortgages can also be used for wellness, travel, and even to allow you the ability to provide a living inheritance for a family member. The funds are tax-free and can be used as you wish to help you stay in the home you love.

Could a reverse mortgage be the right solution for you or a loved one? Call a Bloom Customer Advocate or visit our website to learn whether this option could work for you.

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The Lifestyle 55+ Master’s, SRES (Senior Real Estate Specialists) and CPCA (Certified Professional Consultant on Aging) designations are signs that your REALTOR® has the training, skill set, and dedication that is required when working with mature and senior clients. The needs of this clientele are different from other types of real estate, whether relating to the need for information on available housing options or, government loans & grant programs to help you stay in your home.

Work with an agent who specializes in helping seniors and has connections with a network of transition experts. Magda is a Lifestyle 55+ Master or ‘transition specialist’— one of 30 in Canada with this specialization. Magda saves families time and money and ensures a stress-free transition by providing A to Z services. These include a full-service property sale and arrangement of professional assistance, including legal, financial, accounting and more. Magda has access to a Network of Exceptional Specialists who specialize in Canadian tax laws. estate planning, wills, trusts, capital gains, and other options.

Contact Magda for a complimentary consultation. 

Many professionals have had to (by choice or circumstance) incorporate working with seniors into their practice in recent years, and many businesses old and new, aim to target seniors as part, or all of, their service provision. The best way for professionals and businesses to tap into this market in order to solve a problem their potential older customer has is to gain knowledge, have access to supporting resources, be part of a larger organization, and learn to market to their target client. There are service providers with excellent training and education within their industry, however many are not aware of niche educational opportunities, or the benefits of this type of education when working with their older clients. We offer unique programs designed for any professional who wants to start working with seniors, or who wants/needs to have more knowledge and focus when they work with older adults. Our experienced facilitators run the interactive course over Zoom over a 3-week period (1/2 a day/week). To register for our next course, or find out more visit our Training page.

Some of the services we train are:  REALTORS®  - Lawyers - Fianancial Services - Downsizers - Movers - Declutters - Therapists - Junk removal - Storage - Retirement Homes - Home care providers - Age in place - Mobility and more...

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