The Options Open
Guide.
A unique, and practical guide for mapping your best aging journey.
About the Guide
Options Open offers a “travel planning” approach to broaden your thinking and creatively make and adjust plans for your future. This guide, and its accompanying workshops, offer positive, and informed navigation about using your 60s and 70s to plan your 80s and 90s.
The Guide’s Strategy
The Five-Strategy Framework supports you to make the best choices with your health, housing, social networks, caregiving teams, and to leverage both financial and other resources. This go-to guide is chock full of ideas, self-reflection tools and worksheets to help you get ready for your journey ahead—whether traveling solo, with a partner, family, friends, or neighbours.
About the Author
Sue Lantz, BA, MPA, is a passionate advocate for resourceful and grassroots housing, healthcare, and neighbourhood solutions that build connected and inclusive communities. Sue is a trusted policy expert and voice for seniors and people with disabilities. She has worked over many years in Canada to generate innovative home care and housing alternatives to institutional living.
Sue serves on the Board of Directors for a global organization called, 880 Cities, and the Advisory Board for Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing, a policy “think tank” in Canada. She is also a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Accessibility for the Canadian Standards Association and the Seniors Strategy 2.0 Table in the City of Toronto.
