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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.

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COVID-19: 1 Year Later – Distress Centre’s 211 program response

This is the fourth and final part of the multi-part series exploring Distress Centre’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one year after they first activated their business continuity plan and went
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Parkour for Older Adults: A Prescription for Fall Prevention

To help avoid dangerous injuries, ‘spunky’ seniors have been participating in a modified version of a sport popularized by YouTube videos and more commonly linked to extreme athletes with off-the-
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Strengthening Alberta's Public Health Act

The Public Health Amendment Act would reflect current and emerging public health challenges and best practices, help Alberta’s government respond quickly to public health issues, including chronic d
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CAGP/CCSMH VISION AWARD

Any program, corporation, non-governmental organization or individual helping to combat ageism and stigma, to highlight and promote the strengths associated with aging and the potential and value of o
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CAGP/CCSMH SENIORS’ MENTAL HEALTH OUTSTANDING CARE & INTEGRATIVE PRACTICE AWARD

In recognition of an individual, team, service or program leading outstanding seniors’ mental healthcare and integrative practice models, such as: interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaborati
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Noble Neighbour Citation Program Launches

The Noble Neighbour Citation Program has been created to recognize the incredible community work of seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. We live in extraordinarily challenging times and there is a n
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Nominations for the 2021 Top 7 Over 70 awards are now open

Do you know an older adult over the age of 70 who should be recognized for doing something remarkable or beginning a new venture in their later years of life? Nominations are being accepted until Augu
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Vaccine rollout expanding to front-line health-care workers

As part of Phase 2C of Alberta’s vaccine rollout, nurses, doctors, dentists and any health-care workers in patient care facilities or providing direct patient care in the community will receive the
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Government of Canada supports the official launch of Healthy Aging CORE Canada resource hub

While the pandemic has been hard on everyone, it has been hardest on seniors. Seniors helped build the country we know and love today, and the Government of Canada is committed to helping reduce their
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