23,330 Oshawa homes were built from 1961 to 1980.
That is the largest construction period in the 2021 Census for this city, and it is the stock that produces interior stairs, split entries and raised porches. We deliver to and install in Oshawa from the Brampton showroom at Unit 7, 15 Fisherman Drive. There is no Westin store here.
Lakeridge Health Oshawa at 1 Hospital Court holds both the hospital and the inpatient rehab ward. There is no municipal hardship fund. Durham Region Ontario Works is the local path only if the person already receives OW.
Oshawa is the furthest Durham city from the Brampton showroom. We still come.
Oshawa is a lower-tier city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, on Lake Ontario, east of Whitby. City Hall is at 50 Centre Street South. From Unit 7, 15 Fisherman Drive in Brampton the road distance to City Hall is about 92 km. The road distance to Lakeridge Health Oshawa at 1 Hospital Court is about 94 km. Those are map facts, not a delivery window. We do not publish a same-day promise or a service radius.
Etobicoke, at Unit 16B, 106 Humber College Blvd, is closer on the map, about 69 km to City Hall. We do not invent which truck leaves for an Oshawa install. Call the Brampton order desk on 905 451-7743. The showroom is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm, and Saturday 10am to 2pm, if you want to sit in a chair or try a lift before it goes into an Oshawa house. We do not print Etobicoke hours here.
We deliver to and install in Oshawa. We do not have an Oshawa store. Silver Cross has a shop at 850 King Street West, Unit 9. That is a real Durham storefront. It is not Westin. We do not occupy this city. We serve it.
1961 to 1980 is the largest build era in Oshawa. That is the stairlift-and-porch-lift core.
The 2021 Census counts 66,630 occupied private dwellings in the City of Oshawa. 37,000 of them (55.5 percent) are single-detached houses, 5,330 (8.0 percent) are semis, and 6,445 (9.7 percent) are rows. Oshawa has far more occupied dwellings than Ajax or Pickering. Treat it as the largest of the three Durham cities on this site.
Period of construction is the fact that changes the equipment. Of 66,635 dwellings in that table, 23,330 were built from 1961 to 1980. Another 15,700 were built in 1960 or before, about 24 percent. Almost 59 percent of Oshawa dwellings were built in 1980 or earlier. Pre-1960 stock is about 7 percent in Ajax and about 6 percent in Pickering. This is the old industrial city of the three.
Occupied dwellings by period of construction, 2021 Census
Bar length is relative to the 1961 to 1980 count. Source: Statistics Canada Indigenous Population Profile for Oshawa CSD 2021A00053518013, city-total column. Apartment splits were not fully captured in the research extract, so they are not invented here.
Two-storeys, semis, split foyers
This is the single largest vintage: 23,330 dwellings. The usual problems are an interior stair and several steps from the driveway to the main floor. A porch lift at the split entry and an indoor stairlift on the flight are both in play. We measure. We do not invent a millimetre width for every 1970s semi.
Porch liftsTurning stairs and tighter doorways
15,700 dwellings predate 1961. Downtown around Centre Street and King Street, and the older city south of Highway 401 including the Lakeview community named in city documents, often mean narrower halls, a raised porch, and a stair that turns. A curved rail and a narrow-frame wheelchair are the honest starting points. Not every Oshawa stair is curved. Confirm on the visit.
Curved stairliftsShared walls, short front yards
5,330 semis and 6,445 rows leave a tight ramp footprint. A short modular ramp or a threshold ramp is often a better first step than a long grade. Landlord permission matters more here than in a detached house. Tenure in the same census table is 42,755 owner-occupied and 23,880 rented, a higher rental share than Ajax.
RampsUrban Growth Centre versus 407 two-storeys
Downtown Oshawa is a provincially identified Urban Growth Centre. Walk-ups without elevators and later apartment towers both exist. Confirm building type before promising an install. North toward Highway 407, including Windfields and other names in planning reports, is later suburban two-storeys. Wider lots, still a full flight of interior stairs. Do not assume step-free.
Straight stairlifts
Pick the vintage. The equipment changes.
A 1960s split foyer, a pre-1960 house south of the 401, a downtown walk-up and a north Oshawa two-storey are four different jobs. Highway 401 cuts the city. A discharge from 1 Hospital Court to a Lakeview bungalow is a different trip from a discharge to a 407-corridor two-storey. This is a starting point, not a quote.
Stairlifts for the 1961 to 1980 flight. A bed after a stay on F Wing.
The catalogue is the same one we carry in Brampton. The mix that actually gets used in Oshawa is not. The 1961 to 1980 belt asks for indoor rails and porch lifts. The pre-1960 stock asks for curved rails and narrower chairs. A discharge from 1 Hospital Court asks for a homecare bed and, often, a rental first. 4,170 dwellings need major repairs. A temporary bed or ramp is sometimes the honest first step, not a permanent lift.
Indoor stairlifts
On a 1961 to 1980 two-storey the indoor flight is the job. A straight rail fits a straight run. A turn needs a curved rail. We will not promise a fit from a photograph. ADP does not fund stairlifts. March of Dimes HVMP is the usual funding path.
Straight stairliftsCurved stairlifts
Older downtown and south-end houses often have a stair that turns. Handicare 4000, Freecurve and Access Flow X are the curved lines we install when the measure says the hall and the winders will take a rail. Durham OW Additional Benefits do not publish a stairlift list.
Access Flow X curved stairliftPorch lifts
Several steps from the driveway to the main floor is the 1961 to 1980 signature. A vertical platform lift fits that better than a long rural ramp, especially on a semi or a row with a short front yard. ADP does not fund porch lifts.
Porch liftsHospital beds
ADP does not fund hospital beds. After a stay at 1 Hospital Court, including the inpatient rehab ward on the 5th floor of F Wing, families usually rent while they sort insurance, tax credits or a longer stay. We deliver the bed. We do not sit on a hospital preferred-vendor list.
Hospital bedsManual and folding chairs
Pre-1960 halls and many 1960s semis are a width problem. We fit narrow-frame manuals and folding chairs. ADP funds approved wheelchairs, approved scooters and seating at up to 75 percent. It does not fund the stair, the porch, the ramp or the bathroom.
Manual wheelchairsShort ramps, not a farm run
Shared walls and short front yards on 5,330 semis and 6,445 rows leave little grade. A short modular ramp or a threshold ramp is the usual first install. Bathroom equipment is the other half of getting around that house. It is not an ADP category either.
RampsThe hospital and the inpatient rehab ward are both at 1 Hospital Court.
Unlike Ajax and Pickering, Oshawa has a full hospital and an inpatient rehab unit inside the city. They share one campus. Outpatient physiotherapy and cardiac rehab sit at other Oshawa addresses. We are not on a preferred-vendor list at any of these sites. The names matter because this is where an Oshawa hospital bed, wheelchair or lift actually starts.
Oshawa Hospital (Lakeridge Health)
1 Hospital Court, Oshawa ON L1G 2B9. Full-service community hospital for Oshawa and Durham Region. Official services named on the hospital page include emergency and critical care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, stroke prevention and treatment, palliative care, cardiac care, dialysis and kidney care, the Geriatric Assessment and Intervention Network (GAIN) Clinic, and the R.S. McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre. Discharge from this campus is the main equipment trigger in the city.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
5th Floor, F Wing, same building, 1 Hospital Court. Short-term inpatient rehab after fracture, joint replacement, amputation, or weakness after surgery or a medical condition. First available bed is assigned across the Oshawa and Whitby Lakeridge sites. The ward is here. The bed you are offered may be in Whitby if Oshawa is full. That is the local split.
Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre, Rossland Road
58 Rossland Road West, Oshawa ON L1G 2V5. Outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy after orthopaedic surgery or fracture. Orthopaedic-specialist referral. This is not the inpatient ward and it is not an emergency department.
Regional Cardiovascular Rehabilitation
Oshawa sites: Oshawa Civic Complex, 99 Thornton Road South, and Oshawa Legends Centre, 1661 Harmony Road North. Cardiac rehab is not on the 5th floor of F Wing. Do not plan it as if it happens in the same hallway as the inpatient ward.
A bed after Lakeridge Oshawa is a rental more often than a purchase. ADP will not fund it. There is no municipal hardship fund in Durham to pick it up either. If the person is on Ontario Works, the Oshawa office is at 200 John Street West, Unit C1A. Otherwise the path is insurance, tax credits, March of Dimes HVMP for home modifications, or paying the quote.
See hospital beds, rentals, and the funding index.
Hillsdale Estates and Hillsdale Terraces sit on Oshawa Boulevard North.
These are real places families already know. Westin does not have a partnership with any of them. Long-term care placement for this area is through Ontario Health atHome, Central East, at 1-833-515-1234 or 1-800-263-3877. The nearest listed office is 920 Champlain Court, Whitby. There is no Ontario Health atHome office listed in Oshawa itself.
Hillsdale Estates
590 Oshawa Boulevard North. Regional Municipality of Durham home. 300 licensed beds. Dementia care unit and an adult day program. Official Durham home.
Hillsdale Terraces
600 Oshawa Boulevard North, adjacent to Hillsdale Estates. Regional Municipality of Durham. 200 beds on the official Durham page. Dementia care unit. This is the regional long-term care campus in the city.
Extendicare Oshawa and Thorntonview
Extendicare Oshawa, 82 Park Road North, 175 licensed beds. Thorntonview, 186 Thornton Road South, 154 licensed beds on the ministry listing. Both are for-profit homes verified on official ministry pages. Other licensed homes may exist. This is not a complete inventory.
Retirement residences verified in this pass
Chartwell Wynfield, 431 Woodmount Drive, north Oshawa, independent and assisted living. Bloom Oshawa (Cogir), 1224 Coldstream Drive, independent living, assisted living and seniors' apartments. Cedarcroft Place (Spring Living), 649 King Street East, independent and assisted living. We do not invent a fifth name.
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is in Whitby. Ajax Pickering Hospital is in Ajax. White Cliffe Terrace is in Courtice. Fairview Lodge is in Whitby. None of those belong on an Oshawa institution list.
There is no municipal hardship fund in Oshawa. Durham Ontario Works is the path if you already receive it.
The administering body is the Regional Municipality of Durham, the same service manager as Ajax and Pickering. Competitors almost never write this sentence. It is still the honest one. Do not send an Oshawa resident to the Toronto Hardship Fund or to Halton Low-Income Financial Assistance.
No municipal equipment hardship program
Durham's Additional Benefits page is for people who are already Ontario Works clients. It does not publish a hardship fund for other low-income residents. It does not publish an equipment list for beds, lifts or stairlifts. If you are not on OW, the path is the shared provincial and federal list, not a city cheque.
That list is ADP for wheelchairs, approved scooters and seating; March of Dimes Home and Vehicle Modification Program for many home modifications; WSIB, Veterans Affairs, IFHP and NIHB when those programs apply; Easter Seals, Muscular Dystrophy Canada and The War Amps when you are a registered client; tax credits; private insurance. Westin does not decide eligibility.
Oshawa OW office, 200 John Street West
Ask the caseworker about Durham OW Additional Benefits. The public page names dental, prescription medication, vision, diabetic or surgical supplies, education expenses, a recreation subsidy, medical travel, and extended health benefits after leaving OW. There is no public bed or lift list.
Oshawa office: 200 John Street West, Unit C1A, Oshawa ON L1J 2B4, [email protected]. Central phone 905-666-6239, toll-free 1-888-721-0622. ADP often pays 100 percent of an approved wheelchair or scooter for someone on OW, ODSP or ACSD, so the 25 percent remainder is not the usual fight.
ADP is provincial
ADP funds wheelchairs, approved scooters and seating at up to 75 percent of the approved amount. It does not fund bathroom equipment, beds, stairlifts, ramps or lifts. A 1961 to 1980 Oshawa house does not create an exception. ADP is not an Oshawa program.
ADP, explained honestlyDo not apply these here
The Toronto Hardship Fund is for City of Toronto residents only. Halton Low-Income Financial Assistance is for Burlington, Oakville and Milton. Peel ODSP discretionary benefits are for Peel. None of those programs apply in Oshawa. See the funding index.
Lakeridge F Wing, 1961 to 1980 stairs, and no hardship fund.
If a question would still read as true in Milton, it is not on this list.
Do you have a store in Oshawa?
No. Westin occupies two locations: the Brampton showroom at Unit 7, 15 Fisherman Drive, and the Etobicoke shop at Unit 16B, 106 Humber College Blvd. We deliver to and install in Oshawa from those shops. Silver Cross has a store at 850 King Street West, Unit 9. That is not Westin. We do not occupy King Street.
My parent is on the rehab floor at Lakeridge Oshawa. Can you set up a bed at home before discharge?
Yes. That is a delivery and install in Oshawa. The inpatient rehab unit is on the 5th Floor, F Wing, 1 Hospital Court. We do not sit on a hospital preferred-vendor list, and we do not publish a delivery window. Tell us the discharge date and the address, including whether the home is south of the 401 or north toward Highway 407. ADP does not fund the bed.
After a stay at Lakeridge Oshawa, is rehab in the same building or somewhere else?
Inpatient rehab is in the same building: 5th Floor, F Wing, 1 Hospital Court. First available bed is assigned across the Oshawa and Whitby Lakeridge sites, so the bed you are offered may be in Whitby if Oshawa is full. Outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy is at 58 Rossland Road West. Cardiac rehab uses the Oshawa Civic Complex at 99 Thornton Road South and the Oshawa Legends Centre at 1661 Harmony Road North. Do not plan all three as if they happen on F Wing.
Is there an Oshawa hardship fund for a stairlift or hospital bed?
No municipal equipment hardship program was found for people who are not on Ontario Works. If the person already receives OW, the Oshawa office is 200 John Street West, Unit C1A, [email protected], central phone 905-666-6239. Durham's public Additional Benefits page names dental, drugs, vision, supplies, education, recreation, medical travel and extended health after leaving OW. It does not publish a bed or lift list. Everyone else uses ADP for mobility and seating only, March of Dimes HVMP, tax credits, insurance or the quote. Do not apply to the Toronto Hardship Fund from Oshawa.
Why would an older Oshawa house need a curved stairlift or a narrow wheelchair?
About 24 percent of Oshawa dwellings were built in 1960 or before (15,700), and another 35 percent between 1961 and 1980 (23,330). Older downtown and south-end houses often have turning stairs and tighter doorways. A straight rail is the wrong answer on a turn. We confirm on the visit. We do not claim every Oshawa stair is curved.
Is Oshawa too far for Westin to come?
Oshawa is about 92 km by road from the Brampton showroom at 15 Fisherman Drive to City Hall at 50 Centre Street South, and about 94 km to 1 Hospital Court. It is the furthest of Ajax, Pickering and Oshawa. A crew crosses the GTA. Westin still delivers to and installs in Oshawa. We do not invent a same-day promise. Etobicoke is closer on the map, about 69 km. We do not invent which truck leaves.
How do I apply for long-term care from Oshawa?
Ontario Health atHome, Central East, handles placement: 1-833-515-1234 or 1-800-263-3877. The nearest listed office is 920 Champlain Court, Whitby. There is no office listed in Oshawa. Hillsdale Estates (300 licensed beds) and Hillsdale Terraces (200 beds) are the regional homes on Oshawa Boulevard North. Extendicare Oshawa (175) and Thorntonview (154) are also in the city. This is not a complete list of every licensed home.
Pages people in this city actually use
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Tell us whether this is a discharge from 1 Hospital Court, and whether the house is a 1961 to 1980 two-storey, an older Lakeview or downtown home, or a later north-end build. We come from Brampton. We do not have an Oshawa shop to walk into.