Health and Housing Guidance When Aging
Understanding and navigating housing and support options is complicated. Informed Aging can guide you through making decisions for potential future changes in you or your loved one’s circumstances, for now or for the future.
Health Care and
Legacy Decisions
Planning ahead matters and you can make things easier for later on. Informed Aging offers answers to your questions, helping you better understand your options and feel more confident about the decisions.
Health, Safety
and Well-Being
Aging brings new questions and challenges, from changing health and living situations to shifts in day-to-day functioning. Informed Aging provides a supportive space to talk openly about these experiences, helping you understand, reflect and plan for what matters most.
Planning for Approaching the
End of Life
Aging and preparing for the end of life are deeply personal. Through thoughtful conversation and guidance, we help you prepare with clarity, confidence and support.
Seniors-related
Supports & Housing
Guidance about seniors-related housing and supports in BC, such as help at home, retirement residences, supportive housing and long-term care.
Documents & Decisions
Providing guidance and support for advance care planning, power of attorney, substitute decision-makers, wills, living wills and estate and legacy planning.
Quality of Life
Assistance in finding resources to help manage chronic diseases including dementia, staying safe and healthy, caregiving and mental health and wellness.
End of Life Care
Supporting families find support about spirituality, hospice and palliative care, and end-of-life planning (including MAiD), with compassion provided throughout.
Welcome to Informed Aging
Informed Aging is led by Heidi Mannis. She has worked in seniors care in British Columbia for more than 30 years. Her experience includes community care, hospital, and long term care settings, as well as being a caregiver in her personal life.
Heidi knows that aging is personal. She listens carefully and shares information in ways that help people learn and make informed decisions.
Heidi’s credentials include:
- Bachelor of Recreation Education (BRE)
- Master of Health Administration (MHA)
- Certified Health Executive (CHE)
- Canadian Professional Consultant on Aging (CPCA)
To be informed, this is our process to prepare thoughtfully, so you can live confidently:
Our conversations will have an approach that fits for you. They are usually scheduled for one hour at a time. We can meet one-on-one or with spouses and partners, adult children, and/or caregivers. We can also meet in small group settings if desired. We will get to know each other, make sure your goals are understood, and agree how best to use the time to serve your needs. Our conversations are confidential. They will be comfortable, practical, and without judgment.
Are you aware of how you are aging? Do you care for someone who is aging?
Informed Aging will help you prepare thoughtfully and live confidently.
In-person and virtual conversations are available, as well as small group options and workshops.