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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.

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

Older adults are among the most vulnerable when disaster strikes. That’s why it’s critical that older people, and those who care for them, prepare for emergencies. If you’re an older adult, or care for an older person, follow this checklist to prepare for and respond in an emergency.

This foundational document is intended to: Facilitate conversations between public health practitioners, planners and others involved in land-use and transportation planning. Assist toolkit users in applying health evidence. Inform built environment decision-making processes. Be a navigational

An Empirical Approach to Reframing Aging and Ageism: If you use communications to make the case for adapting society to the needs of an aging population, the evidence-based insights here will be useful to you, and will provide guidance that helps you work more intentionally toward messaging that adv