The federal government is giving serious consideration to the creation of an “Aging at Home Benefit” to allow people to stay in their homes longer, while getting the support and care they need.

Seniors’ Advocate Susan Walsh is just back from what she calls a productive meeting with her federal and provincial counterparts in Ottawa.

There are only three provincial seniors’ advocates in the country, representing British Columbia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Walsh says they also met with the federal Minister of Seniors, Kamal Khera, to discuss ways to support seniors. She says Ottawa is giving serious consideration to an Aging at Home Benefit, but what that is, and how it will work, remains to be seen.

She says they had a really good dialogue surrounding a benefit that would help a person live safely at home, live well at home, and live well in the community.