Support Services

Sharing a home with other seniors can be a wonderful experience. At the same time, we realize that there may also be challenges to such an arrangement. These challenges may include, learning to share a home after decades of living on your own, interpersonal conflict, and perhaps dealing with the grief that comes with the aging process and the loss of loved ones.

Knowing that the case manager is available can make a big difference in confronting some of the issues one faces when making the choice to participate in shared housing with people you don’t know. To assist our residents with such transitions we offer on-going support services. The goal is always to create a real home with your housemates.

The case manager helps you navigate various issues and challenges and gets to know you personally in addition to connecting you with community resources.  This allows you to get your on-going needs addressed which may include monitoring your health, accessing food stamps or Meals on Wheels, as well as a number of other community support systems that will generally help ease your adjustment to a shared living arrangement.

The case manager is also helpful in assisting everyone in the household, as a group.  Increasing effective ways to communicate with each other as well as finding ways to facilitate helping the residents create a warm and comfortable community of friends are ways in which the case manager can be supportive to the group.

As one resident put it, "It's good to have housemates who are also friends. We are there to help each other in tough times."