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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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Planning for Lifelong Care: Guiding Questions for Transgender & Non-Binary People to Plan for Dementia and Other Serious Illness

Transgender Law Centre

Guiding questions for Transgender & Non-binary people to plan for dementia and other serious illness

Finding Balance - Resource Catalogue

Finding Balance Alberta

The Finding Balance resources have been designed with simplicity and readability in mind. These resources focus on staying independent and preventing falls. Explore their free catalogue and view resources that can be ordered.READ MORE HERE

Enabling Aging in Place

Healthcare Excellence Canada

Enabling Aging in Place will bring together health and social service organizations from across the healthcare continuum to implement promising practices that are delaying entry to long-term care and improving safety, health and quality of life outcomes, while also reducing emergency department visi

Social Prescribing: Frequently Asked Questions

Healthy Aging Alberta

Do you have burning questions about social prescribing or Healthy Aging Alberta's Social Prescribing for Older Adults program? This document should give you answers to everything you might need to know!Did we miss a question? Send it to Beth Mansell, Provincial Social Prescribing Project Manager - b

Healthy Aging Framework Primer

Healthy Aging Alberta

The Healthy Aging Framework (HAF) is essentially a way to organize, assess, and communicate the work of diverse organizations so that we might better understand the collective impact we have – or could have – on healthy aging in Alberta.

Social Prescribing: A Holistic Approach to Health (Video)

Healthy Aging Alberta

Social prescribing is a holistic, wrap-around approach to healthcare that bridges the gap between medical and social care services. Through this approach, healthcare professionals refer patients to community-based programs to improve their health and enhance their quality of life.Learn more about th

Booklet: Cooking up Calm

Dr. Gail Low and Living Well Research Team

We invite you to access and download the ebook entitled 'Cooking up calm' from the following link: https://rtoero.ca/mentally-healthy-living/. You can also contact the RTOERO Foundation for a hard copy of this resource.

RECORDING: Launch Event - Supporting Ethnocultural Seniors in Alberta

CORE Immigrant Senior Sector Connections Group

Throughout the province of Alberta, many immigrant-serving organizations are supporting older adults from a variety of ethnocultural communities.The unique needs of older adults in these communities can present issues for organizations around effective program and service delivery.On October 19, 202

Article: Safe and Brave Spaces Don’t Work (and What You Can Do Instead)

Elise Ahenkorah, Medium

Published September 21, 2020: When engaging individuals from racialized or equity-deserving communities, organizations will often share promises of “safe and brave” spaces to encourage inclusive discussion, and for allies to learn from experiences different from their own.We can probably s

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