JOHN JANTAK
The 1019 Report
Construction is progressing on a new long-term seniors care home in Dollard des Ormeaux at the site of the former Adonis supermarket on Sources Blvd., the first of two such facilities operated by the regional health authority planned for the West Island.
The seven-storey CHSLD in Pierrefonds/Roxboro – Dollard-des-Ormeauxis expected to be completed by the winter of 2025-26, when the first of 192 residents are scheduled to move in.
Thesecond facility, which will be built on St. Jean Blvd. near Hymus Blvd. in Pointe Claire, is still in the planning stage. There is no firm date as to when construction will begin. When completed, however, it will house 204 residents.
Both new CHSLDs will accommodate residents who currently live in outdated facilities as well as welcome new residents, according to Alexandre Cadieux, a spokesman for CIUSSS de l’Ouest de l’Île de Montréal, the regional health authority that administers the care facilities.
In the case of the new facility on Sources, it will become the new home for residents who will be relocated from the Centre d’hébergement Denis-Benjamin-Viger facility in Île Bizard.
Both facilities will cater to individuals living with what is considered a significant loss of autonomy, 80 per cent of whom also have significant neurocognitive disorders, according to information obtained from CIUSSS de l’Ouest de l’Île de Montréal.
The new buildings are part of a major transformation of Quebec’s residential and long-term care facilities for seniors, which aims to create residential settings to benefit both the residents and their loved ones.
They will provide services to a growing senior population in the region. Currently, there are 270 people in the West Island who are on a waiting list for a spot in a CHSLD.
According to the last national census in 2021, there were 10,275 residents ages 65 and over in Dollard. That is up almost 10.5 per cent from the figure of 9,300 in 2016.
The number of seniors in Pointe Claire in 2021 was 9,310, according to the last census, up almost 25 per cent from the 7,475 reported five years earlier.
The CIUSSS de l’Ouest de l’Île de Montréal projects that this upward trend in the number of elderly residents in the region will see a marked increase in the next decade.