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Resources on CORE include checklists, toolkits, reports, studies, videos, and other materials on topics relevant to those working or volunteering in support of healthy aging and older adults independent living.
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Suffering in Silence: The financial abuse of seniors in British Columbia
Vancity Credit Union
More than one-third of seniors in Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District don’t tell anyone when they’ve suffered financial abuse.
The troubling finding is part of a Vancity report, Suffering in Silence: The financial abuse of seniors in British Columbia, which shows little has chang
Worksheet Template - Mapping Your Needs: A Grantseeking Framework
GrantConnect
Developed by Imagine Canada, the Mapping Your Needs worksheet is designed to help charities and nonprofits across Canada holistically understand and map out their complex needs in relation to grantseeking. This template provides organizations with an outline for prospect research strategy and serves
Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector
Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector
In Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector, the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector details the strategies and regulatory reforms needed to maximize the impact of this sector in communities both here in Canada and around the world.
A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire
Public Health Agency of Canada
Canada's first national dementia strategy sets out a vision for the future and identifies common principles and national objectives to help guide actions by all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, communities, families and individuals.Â
Home Support…We Can Do Better
Office of the Seniors' Advocate
British Columbia’s home support program is unaffordable for most seniors, offers too little service for high-need clients and has created a workforce where 75 per cent of staff are casual or part-time, says B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie. In a comprehensive report titled Home Support…We
A Portrait of social isolation and loneliness in Canada today
Angus Reid Institute
Interpersonal connection is at the heart of all human society. As a species, we thrive on relationships and social interaction, to the point that our health as individuals is negatively affected in the absence of these connections.
A wide-ranging new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute
Seniors’ Housing Report British Columbia
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation [CMHC] have released their 2019 reports on Seniors' Housing, including a report on British Columbia. The report includes data on vacancy rates and rents in British Columbia.Â
LGBT END-OF-LIFE CONVERSATIONS WEBSITE
Our mission is to foster effective communication, create community and facilitate care for LGBT persons at the end-of-life. We aim to raise awareness of the unique challenges that this population faces as they age and approach end-of-life. Our goal is to go beyond education and provide LGBT perso
Poverty and inequality among British Columbia’s seniors (2017)
Iglika Ivanova with Shannon Daub, Marcy Cohen and Julie Jenkins
POVERTY AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY present a unique hardship for seniors, particularly when combined with the many overlapping challenges of aging—chronic disease, loss of mobility, declining health and loss of spousal and community support. And given that BC’s population is aging, any gaps in our
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