Aging with Dignity

A legacy of repair must include care for those who have spent a lifetime caring for others. Through the Aging with Dignity program, the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation is doing just that.

In partnership with Rosarium Health, the Foundation enables Descendants 55 and older to age safely and with dignity at home. This initiative helps address a critical but often overlooked need: ensuring that elders can remain in a familiar place, connected to their communities, rooted in their histories, and surrounded by the lives they’ve built.

This program provides home modifications tailored to the unique needs of each participant. Licensed contractors and clinically trained home assessors — who hold advanced degrees in physical or occupational therapy — coordinate improvements such as accessible ramps, grab bars, widened doorways, and bathroom modifications. Additional services may include weatherization and pest control. 

As we expand this program to reach more Descendants in the years ahead, we remain committed to a simple but powerful belief: No one should have to leave their home to feel safe in it.