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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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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
Healthy Aging Alberta: Regional Gatherings Summary 2023
Healthy Aging Alberta
In the Spring of 2023, Healthy Aging Alberta (HAA) hosted our second annual Regional Gatherings across the province.
Report: Promising Models of Community-Based Seniors’ Transportation in British Columbia
Community Based Transportation in BC
Community Based Transportation model in BC
Newsletter
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