Aging with Disability Survey

Most of us don’t like to think about getting older, but it’s a fact of life and unfortunately, it is one from which we cannot escape. As people with disabilities face the aging process, we should be asking ourselves questions about the quality of our living and the quality of our aging.

The "Aging with a Disability Working Group", led by the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT), is comprised of consumers and representatives from the cross-disability community. Through a consumer approach, we want to help you identify what to expect, what preventative steps can be taken to ease the effects of aging on disability, how to translate living longer into living better and actively, how to prevent losing our achieved independence, and what to do to delay new conditions and increasing disability. The Working Group will initially focus their efforts on the Greater Toronto Area for persons with physical disabilities.

We need your help in order to be able to provide you with the appropriate supports as you enter the aging process. In order to do so, we ask that you take the time to fill out the following survey posted on Survey Monkey. Your answers to these questions will enable us to find ways of easing the effects of the aging process on you in as many ways as possible – physically, emotionally, mentally and socially.

We have attached the group’s “Terms of Reference” in addition to a “Glossary of Terms” to help you better understand some of the terms used in the survey. The glossary is listed in alphabetical order so that you can find what you’re looking for more quickly.

CILT acknowledges that you may get more than one copy of this survey if you are affiliated with more than one of the organizations involved in the Aging Roundtable. Please excuse cross promotion.

To access the survey, please visit the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RWGBWXQ.