Resources
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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[Tool] Guide Your Collaboration by Building an Accountability Matrix
Tamarack Institute
Collaborations often benefit from a more defined approach to their governance and leadership processes and an accountability matrix can help guide this work.
[Resource] Planning a Healthy Menu: Toolkit for Enhancing Health Through Nutrition Healthy Eating in the Community
Alberta Health Services
Designed for operators of supportive living sites, personal home living, group homes and lodges in Alberta.
[Resource] Healthier Vending Toolkit Healthy Eating in the Community
Alberta Health Services
The AHS Healthier Vending Toolkit provides resources to help recreation centres, workplaces, vendors, and community groups offer healthier foods and drinks in their vending machines.
[Resource] Healthy Eating Starts Here Healthy Eating in the Community Community Gardens Handbook: How to Start and Maintain a Garden
Alberta Health Services
a complete guide to start and maintain a shared space where groups of people can grow vegetables, fruit and herbs. The handbook also provides tools, resources and tips to help along the way.
[Resource] Healthy Eating in the Community: Collective Kitchens Manual
Alberta Health Services, Healthy Eating Starts Here
Collective kitchens are community-based cooking programs where small groups of people get together to cook. The Manual will help community groups start and maintain a collective kitchen.
[Podcast] Responsible Disruption Podcast
Social Impact Lab
Responsible Disruption is a podcast that explores the intersection of social innovation and design.
[Podcast] Supporting Family Caregivers in Healthcare Through Research, Education and in Practice with Dr. Jasneet Parmar (Episode 94)
Caregiver's Compass and Caregiver Centered Care
Caregivers are aware there are significant gaps in our healthcare system, yet some of the answers to these gaps are found in supporting and providing education to the healthcare workers on the front lines
[Report] The role of faith-based organisations in developing age-friendly communities
Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG)
Faith-based spaces are important community assets. They are a critical form of social infrastructure and often already provide important services to older people.
[Resource] LGBT2SQ Seniors: An evidence review and practical guide designed for healthcare providers and researchers
Sherbourne Health/Rainbow Health Ontario
Click HERE to download the PDF resourceSUMMARYTo provide inclusive, affirming services, and welcoming health care to LGBT2SQ seniors, healthcare and social service providers should appreciate that not all seniors are heterosexual and cisgender. As they approach their twilight years, LGBT2SQ seniors
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