Senior Housing

Janice Arthur | Oct 19, 2022

I am a senior in North Frontenac – in North Frontenac, frankly, we are mostly seniors, very attached to our rural lifestyle and to our beautiful landscape, and we want to stay.

Unfortunately for rurally isolated seniors, many on very limited incomes, the options for services and travel are very limited, even moreso than for residents of Central Frontenac or South Frontenac.  So we have a disparity between the north and south of the County.

The reality that seniors may ultimately need assisted living must confront the reality that for our residents the declining years, perhaps 10 to 20 of them, would be made much more safe and enjoyable by investing in needed service supports.

Central and South Frontenac have much larger tax bases than our township and if they want to create a Municipal Services Corporation that should be their initiative and their responsibility.  However that is not a ‘bricks and mortar’ project, and not the intent of the $337,500 slated for North Frontenac. 

If County Council can divert these funds away from ‘bricks and mortar’, it should consider instead addressing the expressed needs of North Frontenac seniors.

Janice Arthur