Together with our award winning website TheCareGuide.com, we’ve been helping Canadian seniors make informed decisions about their housing and care service options since 1996, and have been consulting within the seniors’ housing industry since 1993. 

 

Our printed directories and website include all retirement residences, long-term care homes, home health care and community support services, independent/supportive living, assisted living, Alzheimer care and hospice care across Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, with the balance of the country coming soon.  The Care Guide also provides valuable insights and guidance to help seniors and families make more informed decisions about their housing or care service needs, and information and resources about related issues such as caregiving, health and wellness, financial planning, legal concerns and estate planning.

 

 

Like any important decision, making the right choice takes time, research and preparation.  When we look to the future and begin to plan for our retirement years, we tend to focus our efforts on obvious issues such as financial, real estate and tax planning. However, what is often mistakenly overlooked is the issue of housing and care. These considerations are all too often left until a crisis occurs and, as a result, we are forced to make a decision within condensed time frames with little or no meaningful research. 

 

Every year across Canada, thousands of us are faced with the unique challenge of finding appropriate housing or care service solutions for ourselves or an elderly loved one.  Most, probably not unlike yourself, soon find that there are many uncertainties and more questions than answers.  The Care Guide is intended to help . . . to alleviate some of the uncertainties and answer some of the questions.

 

That’s where The Care Guide comes in!  Backed by an experienced, caring and committed team, The Care Guide helps caregivers, seniors, families and their advisors access the full spectrum of seniors' housing and care solutions through trustworthy, accurate and easy-to-use information and support.

 

 

The process of properly assessing an elderly loved one’s needs, evaluating available solutions and making the right choice is a daunting task for anyone.  It represents a momentous decision – who will best care for mom or dad?  Senior Care Select goes beyond the self-help nature of The Care Guide by providing seniors and families with hands-on guidance and assistance during this often difficult decision process.

 

For more information about Senior Care Select click here, or to speak directly with one of our professionals, call 1-800-311-CARE (2273).

 

 

The Care Guide and Senior Care Select are both part of the Care Planning Partners Inc. family of services.  Established in 1993, Care Planning Partners is an innovative leader in the provision of professional consulting and information services within the dynamic and growing seniors' housing and care services industry in Canada.

 

Care Planning Partners is an innovative leader in the provision of market and financial consulting services to the seniors' housing and care services industry in Canada. Our fifteen years’ experience in this industry has enabled us to become a preferred provider of professional services to the industry’s major owners, operators, developers and lenders. Current and past clients include such well-known and respected organizations as: Chartwell Seniors Housing REIT, Extendicare (Canada) Inc., Diversicare Management Services, Community Lifecare Inc., Sunrise Assisted Living (U.S.), Alterra Healthcare Inc. (U.S.), Manorcare Health Services Inc. (U.S.), Abbeyfield Homes, The Alzheimer Society of Ottawa-Carleton, to name a few.

 

Our approach to each assignment adheres to the highest standards of service excellence and embraces focused research techniques, proven market assessment practices and sophisticated financial modeling. Our analysis process ensures that all factors likely to impact the success of a particular operation are fully examined and understood.

 

 

 

The market and financial feasibility process for retirement residences and the like requires a critical assessment of the market area and its particular supply and demand characteristics, health care dynamics, demographics, economics and development trends. A thorough knowledge of the residence requirements, from all perspectives, results in a solid feasibility assessment.

 

We do not own or manage any residences and are therefore able to maintain the independence and objectivity required in the feasibility process.

 

 

 

Care Planning Partners has conducted a number of operational reviews for both lenders and owners in the seniors' housing and care service industry to enhance the ultimate viability and value of the properties.  We have also provided due diligence support in the acquisition of seniors' residences.

 

 

Care Planning Partners has been conducting an annual survey of retirement residences and long-term care homes since 1993 in Ontario and is currently expanding The Care Survey nationally.  The survey provides insight into the seniors’ housing markets valued by all industry stakeholders including residence owners and managers, developers, lenders, realtors, investors and governments.