Dr. Howard Abrams leads a team that is pioneering an innovative solution to the gap in housing for older adults, along with providing health supports so that they can age at home with dignity. It’s called NORC – short for Naturally Occurring Retirement Community. What is a NORC? Everything from a co-op to a condo to an apartment building where older people make up the majority of residents. “Most older Canadians want to age in place, they want to age at home…it's where they've lived most of their life, and they know how to do that best,” says Dr. Abrams. So he and a team at the UHN NORC Innovation Centre in Toronto are helping to organize a structure for providing the necessary supports that allow these hubs of older adults to age in place as opposed to moving into a residential home or long term care. In addition to identifying and organizing a building to become a NORC, the UHN NORC Innovation Centre supports can include helping residents get to doctors appointments, and providing medical expertise for managing everything from foot care to cardiac issues to high blood sugar due to diabetes. There are now three NORC Innovation Centre projects up and running in Toronto, with more in the works. Dr. Abrams explains that the project team is gathering evidence and data for publication that will lead to proof of concept for NORC’s. If successful the goal is to scale this innovative solution for older adults across Ontario and the country.
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