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​Strategies for Outreach / Engagement on the Declaration of the Community-Based Seniors’ Services Sector in B.C.

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Provides tips and strategies for engaging to local government, elected representatives, community organizations, businesses, and individuals in understanding the value of community based seniors' services and supporting them in local communities.

​Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Katzie Seniors Network Terms of Reference

Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Katzie Seniors' Network

The Seniors Network promotes and supports working in collaboration with community members, in order to improve the health and well-being of seniors in Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Katzie.

​Age Friendly Community Initiative Advisory Committee: Terms of Reference

​Nelson Age Friendly Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee of the Age Friendly Community Initiative is a community stakeholder group committed to addressing the needs of seniors living in Nelson BC and area.

​Seniors Transportation: Affordable, Appropriate, and Available

​Seniors' Advocate

The report (May 2018) highlights that getting a person from point A to B does not totally capture the transportation needs of frail and vulnerable seniors. Many seniors may have the physical ability to take a bus or use HandyDART, but they have cognitive challenges that require someone to accompany

​Raising the Profile Project: Findings and Recommendations from the Community Consultations

​Marcy Cohen and Christine Spinder

This report focuses on the increasingly critical role played by not-for-profit and municipal seniors’ support services – referred to in this report as the Community-Based Seniors’ Services (CBSS) sector – in enabling seniors to “age in place” by supporting them to remain physically activ

​Sunshine Coast Community Resource Centre: Success After Sixty

​Sunshine Coast Community Resource Centre

Success after Sixty is a program that envisions a community where all of its members 60+ are healthy, save and secure, socially engaged, and valued. This program is senior-led and volunteer driven.

​Life satisfaction among Canadian seniors, 2016

​Barayandema , Athanase; Uppal, Sharanjit

This study uses the 2016 General Social Survey on Canadians at Work and Home to provide a recent assessment of the life satisfaction of seniors in Canada. It includes information on overall life satisfaction, as well as information on nine domains of life: standard of living; health; life achievemen

Raising the profile and celebrating the value of community-based seniors' services in B.C.

United Way

The Raising the Profile Project (RPP) is a provincial network started in 2016 whose goal is to highlight the key role played by non-profit and municipal community-based seniors’ services in supporting seniors to build new social connections, remain physically and mentally active, and retain their

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