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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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AGING AND DYING IN PRISON An Investigation into the Experiences of Older Individuals in Federal Custody (2019)
The Correctional Investigator Canada and Canadian Human Rights Commission
Prisons were never intended to be nursing homes, hospices, or long-term care facilities. Yet increasingly in Canada, they are being required to fulfill those functions. The proportion of older individuals in federal custody (those 50 years of age and older) is growing. They now account for 25% of th
Healthy Housing Action Guide
BC Healthy Communities
This guide supports local governments across British Columbia as they create healthy and thriving places for all people.
What you’ll find in this Action Guide:
Information about healthy housing and co-benefits
Actions and examples from BC communities
Funding opportunities and strategies
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BETTER AT HOME First Nations Programs Evaluation 2017/18
United Way of the Lower Mainland
The Better at Home First Nations programs provides non-medical supports to Elders through a basket of services that include: grocery shopping, transportation, housekeeping, home repair, friendly visiting, snow shoveling, and yard work. These services are intended to keep Elders socially connected an
Resilient Streets Toolkit: The How-to Guide for Building Community
BC Healthy Communities and resilientneighbourhoods.ca
This toolkit is designed to help you and your neighbours start making your street, building or block more resilient through fun, hands-on projects.
We focus on activities that can be done by small groups of people with few resources, because finding creative ways to do lots with little is a big part
Declaration of the Community-Based Seniors’ Services Sector in BC and 20 Strategies for Outreach/Engagement
B. McMillan
One of the mechanisms employed for increasing the capacity of CBSS is to unite under a shared Declaration that recognizes the importance of CBSS health promotion and prevention work, and the need for capacity building. This Declaration also acknowledges the importance of closer collaboration between
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.
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