Age Well at Home initiative | In-Home Support stream

The Age Well at Home (AWAH) is a federal funding initiative. After a lifetime of hard work, seniors want to live healthy, safe, and independent lives. Seniors want to stay at home, in the communities that support them, for as long as possible. They also want to increase their sense of belonging and connection to their communities, but this can become difficult as they age. This leads many vulnerable seniors to move to supportive care (such as a senior’s home) sooner than they would have needed to if they had adequate support at home. Low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors may be particularly at risk.

In-Home Support Pilot Project is a stream of the AWAH initiative. This stream funds eligible organizations across Canada with experience delivering one or more of a specific list of volunteer-based services to seniors. Organizations need to provide at least 1 of the following eligible practical support services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors in a local area (see glossary for key terms), as well as help seniors navigate and access eligible services provided by other local organizations.

Eligible services are:

• light housekeeping (for example laundry, cleaning)
• meal delivery and/or preparation
• home maintenance (for example repairs, yard work, lawn mowing)
• transportation (for example to appointments, errands)
• snow removal
• volunteer drop offs (for example groceries, medication, pet supplies), and
• friendly visiting in the home

Note: Extra consideration will be given to organizations planning to deliver multiple services.

Note: Projects are expected to rely on volunteers to deliver services, unless there are exceptional circumstances that make it impossible to deliver a service without paid support.

Note: This initiative is delivered under the Terms and Conditions of the New Horizons for Seniors Program.

Note: You may also be eligible to apply under the Scaling Up for Seniors stream of the Age Well at Home Initiative.

Employment and Social Development Canada will invest in projects from eligible organizations that focus on providing services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors, primarily in the seniors’ homes who need help to age at home, primarily through volunteers. The objectives of the initiative are to:

• expand delivery of volunteer-based eligible services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors, primarily in the seniors’ homes to help them age at home, by offering additional eligible services and/or offering existing eligible services to more seniors, and
• provide a service that helps low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors navigate and gain access to eligible services provided by other organizations active in the local area

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