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Advance Care Planning Guide
The government of Ontario has produced the Guide to Advance Care Planning as part of Ontario's Strategy for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias. It provides valuable information for seniors on making choices about personal care including health care (treatment and services), food, living arrangements and housing, clothing, hygiene and safety.
Source: Ontario Seniors Secretariat

Connecting Generations Tool Kit: Best Practices in Intergenerational Programming
This Toolkit provides valuable information to help you get started with creating, planning and implementing an Intergenerational program.
Source: United Generations Ontario

Getting Ready to Retire
Are you getting ready to retire? There are some things you need to know:
Source: Government of Ontario

Ontario Seniors' Secretariat: Finances
The Guide offers comprehensive information and contact information on related issues of tax including preparing your tax return, tax credits available and other resources

Ontario Seniors' Secretariat: Legal Matters, Human Rights and End of Life
As a part of the Ontario Seniors' Guide to Services and Programs, this site offers comprehensive information concerning legal matters including human rights and end of life matters.

Power of Attorney and Living Wills
A Power of Attorney is a legal document that gives someone else the right to act on your behalf. The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee has a Power of Attorney Kit that will help you appoint the person you want to make decisions for you when you are no longer able to do so for yourself.
Source: Government of Ontario

Powers of Attorney and "Living Wills"
Provides informations on how to give someone else the right to act on your behalf if you become menthally incapable.
Source: Government of Ontario

Seniors' Care : Homemaking
To help you maintain a safe and comfortable home, homemaking services can assist you with routine household activities including menu planning and meal preparation, shopping, light housecleaning and laundry, and paying bills or banking.
Source: Government of Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

<abbr>RRSP</abbr> - Making withdrawals
This link lists topics and answers typical questions relating to the withdrawal of funds from Registered Retirement Savings Plans (<abbr title="Registered Retirement Savings Plans ">RRSP</abbr>).
Source: Government of Canada.

Allowance Program
The Allowance is a monthly benefit for low-income seniors (aged 60-64) whose spouse or common-law partner is eligible for, or currently receiving, the Old Age Security (<abbr title="Old Age Security">OAS</abbr>) pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (<abbr title="Guaranteed Income Supplement">GIS</abbr>).
Source: Service Canada

Canada Pension Plan Forms
Canada Pension Plan forms listed by title.
Source: Service Canada

Canada Pension Plan Retirement Pension
provides a monthly taxable benefit to retired contributors.

Canada's retirement income system
Besides your personal savings and investments, do you know how much money you can expect to receive in retirement? To help you better plan for your retirement, it's important to understand the various parts of Canada's retirement income system.

The Canadian Centre for Elder Law
A non-profit organization committed to enriching and informing the lives of older adults in their relationship with the law; to meet the increasing need for education and research in relation to legal issues of particular significance for older adults.
Source: The Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies

Canadian Retirement Income Calculator
The Old Age Security program and the Canada Pension Plan (or Quebec Pension Plan) provide a modest secure base on which to build your private savings. The calculator helps you assess your personal financial situation and helps you decide which steps to take to reach your retirement goals.
Source: Service Canada

I'm an older worker
A collection of resources for Older Workers.
Source: Jobs, Workers, Training, and Careers

Old Age Security Payment Rates
This chart shows the maximum and average monthly rates for Old Age Security (<abbr title="Old Age Security">OAS</abbr>), Guaranteed Income Supplement (<abbr title="Guaranteed Income Supplement">GIS</abbr>) and the Allowances, as well as the maximum annual income to be eligible for these benefits.
Source: Service Canada

Phased Retirement
Phased retirement is broadly defined as any program allowing for gradual decreases in working time and workload instead of an abrupt move from full-time employment to retirement. Phased retirement may take one of two forms: a pre-retirement gradual reduction in hours (or days) of work or post-retirement part-time work for pensioners who wish to remain employed.
Source: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Retirement Abroad - Seeing the Sunsets
This publication, by Consular Affairs Canada, outlines the information Canadians should consider before retiring abroad.
Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Retirement Planning
A list of programs, services and information to assist you in your retirement.

Retirement Planning: Tax Planning
This Web page discusses general issues one might consider when thinking about one's retirement.
Source: Government of Yukon. Public Service Commission.

Seniors - Canada Revenue Agency
<abbr>CCRA</abbr> has put together a page of information to help Seniors and their families to access easily various topics or services relating to Canadian seniors.
Source: Canada Revenue Agency

Seniors - Human Resources Development Canada
Provides detailed information for seniors on retirement issues.

Services for Seniors Guide
This guide provides information about Government of Canada services and programs for seniors and their families.
Source: Service Canada

Sustainability : Experience in Action: Community Programming for Healthy Aging
Sustainability means a program will continue as long as it is needed. This requires planning from the outset of a project. This fact sheet produced by the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto with the participation and support of the New Horizons: Partners in Aging program, Health Canada discusses how the sustainability of a project can be achieved.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada.