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CANADA | Mar 26, 2025

[News] Thriving in 2025: 5 ways to stick with your health goals

As we usher in a new year, many of us are inspired to embrace positive changes, especially when it comes to our health. For older adults, maintaining and improving health is a worthy and achievable goal. Whether you're aiming to boost your energy levels, enhance mobility, or feel your best, here are some tips to help you stick to your health goals in the coming year.

[News] Keeping seniors moving in rural Alberta

Alberta’s government is investing $3.5 million to partner with Healthy Aging Alberta to expand transportation and mobility services for seniors in rural communities.

[News] From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

This article explores the current state of data, data’s role in digital health and clinical research, old and emerging concerns vis-à-vis health inequities, and a vision for an equitable digital future that empowers patients and ensures inclusivity in clinical research.

Invitation to Participate - Development of an Older Adults Human Rights Data Repository

Seniors-serving organizations, professionals, older adults and older adults/their caregivers are invited to participate in an ongoing older adults human rights repository project.

[Video] 2025 Men's Sheds Canada Impact Video

A key priority of Men's Sheds Canada is to raise awareness and support for the Men's Shed movement and its impact on men, families, and communities across Canada. MSC envisions a Canada where every ma

[News] Shingles Awareness Week

Shingles: A Preventable Pain Too Many Older Canadians Still Suffer

[Survey] Aging rights are human rights

We are looking for participants for a research study on human rights. We are looking for older adults, organizations, industry partners and decision makers in your area.Participations includes:Consent

[Blog] Being one with nature: The effects of forest therapy

Fresh air, rich soil, bustling wildlife, and trees, trees, and more trees. Being in a forest environment can have us feeling one with nature and miles away from the concrete jungles in which many of us live. To be more exact, currently, over 4 billion people across the world call cities home – a stark change from the smaller community-based living that was dominant throughout much of our history (1).

[News] New Horizons in Medicine: Why Art, Science, and Nature Might Be What the Doctor Orders

Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other jour

[News] The Importance of Play for Adults

Playing is just as important for adults as it is for children. Among its many benefits, adult play can boost your creativity, sharpen your sense of humor, and help you cope better with stress.