Backgrounder: Age Well At Home Initiative

Backgrounder

The Age Well at Home initiative (AWAH) is a one-time federal grants and contributions initiative. It includes two streams:

• Scaling Up for Seniors; and
• In Home Supports Pilot Projects.

Scaling Up for Seniors Stream

Projects funded under the Scaling-up for Seniors stream will expand services that have already demonstrated positive results in helping seniors age at home. This funding will help organizations to expand services to reach more seniors, including in different provinces or territories

Projects are required to include the delivery of services in more than one province or territory. Indigenous governments were able to choose whether to propose to scale up within a single province or territory and organizations in Quebec could propose to scale up projects only in Quebec.

The objectives of Scaling Up for Seniors stream of AWAH are to:

• scale up services, previously delivered in Canada, that have already shown positive results in helping seniors age at home; and
• deliver services directly to beneficiaries (seniors or seniors-serving organizations) to help seniors age at home.

Eligible organizations for the Scaling Up for Seniors stream include:

• not-for-profit organizations;
• municipal governments;
• educational institutions;
• Indigenous entities (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities); and
• health and social services institutions.

Provincially/territorially funded public institutions are eligible to receive funding, with the agreement of the provincial/territorial government.

Projects must end by Fall 2025, with funding between $100,000 and $2 million available per project.

A total of 3 Scaling Up for Seniors projects have been approved in Alberta, representing $1.68M.

Here is a list of the 3 organizations funded in Alberta: