Resources
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.
filter by:
​​Making your workplace dementia friendly: Information for recreation service professionals
​Alzheimer Society of British Columbia
Everyone has a responsibility to help make their community dementia friendly. Dementia-friendly communities are those which support people to be engaged and active where they work, live and play. This resource will help you to:
Understand and recognize the signs of dementia.
Learn how to communi
Exceeding Expectations
Columbia Aging Centre
A project of the Columbia Aging Centre, chronicling the ups and downs of urban octogenarians.
Toolkit: ​Social Isolation of Seniors - Volume II - Ideas exchange event toolkit
​ Dr. Penny MacCourt
This toolkit is meant to help people and organizations host effective meetings to exchange ideas and respond to the social isolation of seniors in their communities. It contains tools, templates and support resources for hosting an ideas exchange event.
It is complemented by a background document,
​Age-friendly Communities Funding
​Union of BC Municipalities
The Age-friendly Communities grant program is intended to assist local governments in BC to best support aging populations, develop and implement policies and plans, or undertake projects that enable seniors to age in place and facilitate the creation of age-friendly communities.
​Age Friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide
​Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors
Evidence shows that health promotion and disease prevention strategies can help those who are aging well, as well as those with chronic conditions and those who are at risk for serious health problems—even very late in life. It is increasingly recognized that encouraging communities to create age-
​Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide
​World Health Organization
The purpose of this guide is to engage cities to become more age-friendly so as to tap the potential that older people represent for humanity. It describes the converging trends of rapid growth of the population over 60 years of age and of urbanization, outlines the challenge facing cities, and summ
​Creating an Age-friendly Business in B.C.
​Age Friendly BC
This guide includes:
ideas on how to better serve older customers in terms of safety, comfort, visibility and clarity and respect;
examples of what other businesses have done to become more age-friendly; and
an assessment checklist to help determine what steps could be taken to make a business
​Age-friendly Community Action Summaries: West Vancouver
​Age Friendly BC
A number of B.C. communities have already taken action to make their communities age-friendly. These actions range from ensuring the needs of seniors and people with disabilities are taken into consideration in official community plans, to making changes to the physical environment of the community.
​Age-friendly Community Action Summaries: Saanich
​Age-Friendly BC
A number of B.C. communities have already taken action to make their communities age-friendly. These actions range from ensuring the needs of seniors and people with disabilities are taken into consideration in official community plans, to making changes to the physical environment of the community.
Newsletter
Sign up for the Healthy Aging CORE BC e-news to keep up-to-date with activity from the platform and the Community-Based Seniors Services (CBSS) sector across the country.