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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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[Report] World Happiness Report 2025
Wellbeing Research Centre
The World Happiness Report is the world’s foremost publication on global wellbeing and how to improve it.
[Resource] CCCA Election Kit
Canadian Coalition Against Ageism
The Canadian Coalition Against Ageism (CCAA) has launched the Election Toolkit 2025, a resource to help individuals and organizations advocate for older adults during the upcoming federal election. The toolkit provides key questions for candidates, strategies to address ageism, and ways to ensure ag
[Podcast] Defy Dementia Episode 21: The Heart of a Healthy Brain
Baycrest
This episode of Defy Dementia delves deep into the cardiovascular risk factors of dementia, such as blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, and exercise. Nicole McLachlan shares her experience suffering from a heart attack as a fit and healthy 42-year-old, and her subsequent road to recovery.
Let's Talk: Community organizing
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
As understanding of the structural determinants of health deepens within the Canadian public health community, there is growing recognition that advancing health equity requires changing the written and unwritten rules that maintain patterns of inequities.
[Webinar Recording] Next Steps in Advancing Social Prescribing
United Way BC
United Way BC and the Canadian Alliance for Social Connection and Health are thrilled to introduce "Conversations on Social Prescribing," a four-part webinar series dedicated to advancing Social Prescribing in British Columbia. The first webinar in this series, Next Steps in Advancing Social Prescr
[Resource] Challenging Ageism: A Guide to Talking About Ageing and Older Age
Centre for Aging Better
This guide is designed as a practical tool to support organisations in communicating about ageing and older age. The way people currently talk about ageing and older age is largely negative. To change this conversation we need to stop reinforcing these beliefs – and tell a new story. Small changes
[Resource] Quick Guide to Avoid Ageism in Communication
WHO
Language and images convey meaning, which feed assumptions and judgements that can lead to ageism. The way we frame communications also affects how people think, feel and act towards different age groups. This short guide, produced as a part of the Global Campaign to Combat Ageism, aims to help you
[Resource] GUIDELINES FOR AGE-INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION
Changing The Narritive
GUIDELINES FOR AGE-INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION
[Resource] FNHA Mental Health Support Resource
FNHA
First Nations Health Authority Resource list for mental health support
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