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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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Toolkit: PHRASES' Resources and Expertise to Impact Public Health
PHRASES (Public Health Reaching Across Sectors)
PHRASES provides public health practitioners with tools to build communication skills and strategies. In this toolkit (i.e., set of tools), they provide evidence-based framing and messaging tools and strategies to help public health professionals communicate across sectors. This includes strategic m
Toolkit: Framing the Foundation of Community Health
Frameworks Institute
This is a communications toolkit for public health professionals and advocates who want to engage in productive conversations about the value of, and critical need for, cross-sector collaboration. Topics such as why communicating about public health is tricky and where common public health messages
CLBC Strategy on Aging
Community Living BC (CLBC)
The CLBC Strategy on Aging is a proactive response to the challenges and opportunities associated with supporting adults with developmental disabilities who are growing older in our communities. This strategy has been developed by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC), in concert with the Advisor
Aware, Share, Care: Resources for Healthy Aging with developmental disabilities
Community Living BC (CLBC)
Aware Share Care was developed by Community Living BC to promote awareness and provide information, resources, and tools to support the best possible health care for adults aging with developmental disabilities.www.AwareShareCare.ca provides helpful tips and resources to assist in better planning f
Toolkit: Compassionate Communities
BC Centre for Palliative Care
The Compassionate Community Toolkit guides organizations and groups interested in building a caring, supportive network for people affected by serious illness, end of life, care-giving, and grieving. It was developed with inputs from compassionate communities champions from across British Columbia.
Elder Abuse in a Covid-19 Era
McMaster University
Before the pandemic, it was estimated that 16% of older adults over 60 were affected by some form of abuse. That number was even higher for at risk individuals, including people with physical or mental disabilities and people living in long-term care facilities. Since the global lockdown began, it i
Caregiver Stress: Strategies to Improve Your Well-being
McMaster University
While being a caregiver can be a rewarding experience, it can also be challenging. Caregivers often grapple with constantly changing roles, grasping medical knowledge, emotional stress, financial strains, and changing family dynamics; they need greater affirmation and validation of their roles. The
Don't Let Stigma Spread Like a Virus
McMaster University
In this blog post from the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal, three main points are outlined:
There has been a strong trend towards stigmatization of older adults and intergenerational divisions since the beginning of the pandemic.
Social stigma can undermine social cohesion, cause possible isolatio
Do Not Go Through the Ordeal Alone: Grief in Times of Pandemics
McMaster University
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted individual and societal experiences of end of life care, grief and bereavement due to public-health measures to counter the spread of the virus.
The impossibility of accompanying some of our loved ones at the end of their life, and the need to
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