“…Conceptually, aging in place has garnered increasing attention in efforts to align the priorities of older adults, families, care providers, and policymakers (Vasunilashorn, Steinman, Liebig, & Pynoos, 2012). However, reports that unpaid family members and friends provide 70–80% of community-based care in Canada (Sinha et al, 2016), and save the public systems $25 billion in Canada (Hollander, Liu, & Chappell, 2009) and $470 billion in the U.S.A. (National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP Public Policy Institute, 2015, p. 3), question how equitably the responsibility of care is currently distributed between the public system and its citizens.…”