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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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Push and Pull Factors Surrounding Older Adults’ Relocation to Supportive Housing: A Scoping Review
Bryan B. Franco , Jason Randle , Lauren Crutchlow , Janet Heng , Arsalan Afzal , George A. Heckman and Veronique Boscart
Supportive housing, including retirement homes and assisted living, is increasingly touted as a suitable living option for Canadian older adults. This scoping review describes the nature and content of studies that explore underlying factors that motivate older adults to relocate to supportive housi
Highlight: The Thrive Project - Healthcare utilization and health outcomes among older adults living with HIV
Thrive, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Thrive is a Community-Based Research study that aims to measure trends in healthcare utilization and health outcomes among older adults living with HIV (OALHIV) overtime and estimate potential gaps in care.
The Thrive team is currently recruiting OALHIV who have ever accessed or attempted to access
Seniors Community Action Committees (SCAC) in BC: An overview from the Provincial SCAC Working Group
Seniors Community Action Committees (SCACs) are local/regional groups (also known as Senior Planning Tables/Seniors Action Committees) that support the capacity of community to collaborate, plan, and mobilize to improve the lives of seniors. The Seniors Community Action Committees (SCAC) Provincial
Brochures: The Thrive Project - Access to home and community care services
The Thrive Project, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
The Thrive team engages with older adults living with HIV about their health and access to home and community care services. The team has discovered that the information on these services needs to be more readily available to the public in one place. To meet this need, they have developed a brochure
Recorded Webinar: Towards a Convention on the Human Rights of Older Persons
Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario
The United Nations Charter, recognizes the “fundamental human rights, and the dignity and worth of the human person”. Over the years, special UN Conventions, addressing the rights of Women, Children, Indigenous Persons and Persons with Disabilities, have been developed and adopted. To this day
Intergenerational Holiday event: Virtual Variety Show - Joke telling compilation for seniors over the holidays
Kootenay Seniors
This year has been exceptionally difficult for seniors and the upcoming holiday season without family and friends able to visit is increasing anxiety and sadness. To help share some humour and alleviate some of the feelings of isolation and loneliness over the holidays, Kootenay Seniors has decided
Addressing Stigma - Aging and Older Adults
On Nov 24, 2020, Healthy Aging by United Way hosted a webinar on the topic of Addressing Stigma - Aging and Older Adults. This webinar provided an overview of stigma as outlined in the Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) 'Stigma Action Framework for Building an Inclusive Health System' and and
A Higher Standard: Setting federal standards in long-term care and continuing care
Pat Armstrong & Marcy Cohen
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of federal government leadership in health care. The pandemic’s impact has been particularly dramatic in long-term care homes, exposing a fragmented and under-resourced system that is heavily reliant on for-profit delivery.
This rep
The experiences and needs of older caregivers in Canada
Paula Arriagada
Most of what is known in the caregiving literature focuses on seniors as care receivers rather than care providers. This study uses data from the 2018 General Social Survey on Caregiving and Care Receiving to examine the experiences of caregivers aged 65 and older, including the types of caregiving
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