A group advocating for housing options for seniors has found that many of NOTL’s seniors don’t want to leave town, and they want more housing options so they can stay in the community where they live.
During the next public library Learn & Live session on March 24, Cindy Grant, one of the group’s leading members, will update residents on the ongoing discussions and latest survey findings.
Late last year, Grant hosted a series of sessions to discuss the group’s housing options survey conducted earlier in the year and take in more NOTLer feedback — the Learn & Live session will expand on that.
The presentation will start with a summary of the survey results and continue with who the group has been talking to and working with since then, ending with an open discussion sharing what living options residents in town currently have and new choices they’d like to see in the future.
“It’ll be a chance to get some ideas from other people in terms of what they would like to see as options,” Grant told The Lake Report.
The next step is presenting these finds to town council, Grant said.
“This presentation will be a dress rehearsal for it,” she said.
The group is also hoping to contact developers who are building retirement residences to get them interested in NOTL, Grant said — living options from independent homes with full supports in place to full-blown long-term care homes.
Spots are filling up fast for Grant’s Learn & Live session, “Senior Housing Options in NOTL.”
To register online and receive your spot, visit notlpubliclibrary.org.
