PUBLISHED: DEC 10, 2021
Twenty-four per cent of Ontario’s population (3.44 million people) have some sort of disability, whether that be physical, cognitive, sensory, or episodic. Over 400,000 of those people reside in Toronto.
As the population ages, those numbers will only increase. In 2017, there were more Ontarians over the age of 65 than under the age of 14 and people continue to reach retirement age at a rate of 1,000 people per day. That number will really increase by 2030, when those 65 and over will account for 21.9% of Ontario’s population.