About us
Age Independently was started in the Lower Mainland, for the Lower Mainland — by two people who kept watching good families struggle with a problem no one seemed to own.
Why this exists
We've lived in the Lower Mainland all our lives, and over the years we kept seeing the same story play out in families around us. A capable, independent parent starts needing a little more help. Their kids — often in another city, another country, or simply stretched thin — do their best from a distance.
What follows is familiar to anyone who's lived it: the group texts, the missed appointments, the home care worker who didn't show, the specialist referral nobody followed up on. Everyone involved is trying. But no one's whole job is making sure things actually happen.
That's the job we built Age Independently to do. Not to replace the doctor, the home care agency, or the cleaner — but to be the one consistent, local person who makes sure all of them show up, follow through, and report back. The same person, every visit, every week, until your family stops bracing for the phone to ring.
— Darren & Vannessa, Founders
Your family works with the same coordinator every time. Trust is built in person, visit by visit — not through a rotating cast of strangers.
A short written note each week: what we saw, what we did, what's next. Specific enough to mean something. No jargon, no chasing.
Every task gets a resolution. Small problems get flagged before they quietly become big ones. That's the whole discipline of this work.
We work for the senior as much as the family. Nothing happens without their say — the goal is staying home, in charge, on their own terms.