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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. 

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

Dementia in the Workplace Curriculum for Newcomers

Building Trust

Our research indicates that that younger family members are often responsible for health resource location and system navigation for their parents; however, newcomers do not have the knowledge of dementia or familiarity with Canadian systems to identify dementia supports effectively.  The Building

Punjabi-Adapted Dementia Friends Presentation

Building Trust

PICS staff collaborated with the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia (ASBC) and the research team to adapt the slides used for ASBC’s Dementia Friends workshop, to reflect South Asian realities. The presentation aims to dispel myths about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and create a mo

PEARLS Community-Based Depression Treatment Implementation Toolkit (Revised 2018)

University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC)

The PEARLS Program is a community-based treatment program using methods of problem solving treatment, social and physical activation, and increased pleasant events to reduce depression in physically impaired and socially isolated people. PEARLS is an empowering, skill-building approach. When you lea

Korean Navigating to Care Video

Building Trust

An important research finding among older Koreans in our project was the high level of dissatisfaction they expressed about their visits to family doctors in Canada, even when the doctor spoke Korean. To address this issue, particularly concerning dementia, Korean-speaking MOSAIC staff suggested we

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