Friends are trying to help Phyllis Robson, who is 101, and may be kicked out of her assisted living home in December.
An Etobicoke senior has launched a Go Fund Me page to help her 101-year-old sister Phyllis Robson remain in her assisted living home.
Gwen Rawlinson, 82, said her older sister Phyllis’ health is ‘very fragile’ and will run out of money by the end of December to stay in her Orillia home.
“I am worried the stress of the move will kill her,” Rawlinson wrote on a Go Fund Me page. “She has done well on her own but never expected to live to 101.”
She said Phyllis ‘means to pass peacefully in the place where she feels safe at home.’
Her youngest sister Gwen Rawlinson, 82, of Etobicoke, created the Go Fund Me to help her elderly sister.
Phyllis has made friends and is quite happy at the retirement and assisted living home Paradise Shores, in Orillia, ‘where she feels loved and cared for.’
“It is my greatest wish for her to be able to maintain this sense of security until she passes,” Rawlinson said. “The staff is extraordinary, genuinely loves Phyllis, and are heartbroken at the thoughts of her moving as well. “
She said the home has only six patients who have ‘gone above and beyond for her.’
Rawlinson wrote her sister is $2000 short of the funds needed per month to stay there. More than 130 people have donated almost $15,000 of a goal of $24,000 to help her.
The Paradise Shores home in Orillia where Phyllis is loved by tenants and workers.
”At 80 pounds, she is very frail and has not been able to walk independently for years plus she is deaf and has a myriad of age-related conditions,” her loving sister pleaded. “Her health has been deteriorating quickly over the past few months.”
She has doubts that Phyllis will survive a move.
“It breaks my heart to think of her having to go through the major upheaval of a move and likely passing away due to the stress instead of peacefully at her current home,” Rawlinson wrote.
Sister Gwen said Phyllis wants to live her life with love and dignity and will die if she has to move.
She and Phyllis are the only two alive of 10 siblings. Phyllis is the second oldest and Rawlinson is the youngest of the siblings, who were raised on a farm in Oro-Medente.
Phyllis helped to raise the younger siblings when they were growing up. Her husband, daughter and grandson have predeceased her.
Phyllis’ birthday was last month.
Anyone who can help is asked to donate to keep Phyllis in her home on Go Fund Me.