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CANADA | Jul 13, 2026

[Participate] Looking for Health, Housing, and Social Care Providers to Interview

The Aging in the Right Place Partnership research team is working on a project funded through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The project title is Aging in the Right Place: Building Capacity for Promising Practices that Support Older P

[Film] Silver Screamers

Silver Screamers is a funny, moving documentary about seniors who dared to make a horror film—and scared the hell out of ageism.TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpT0fO2svr8Follow the film

[News] Men's Shed finds success in Strathmore

Strathmore's Men's Shed had its official launch earlier this week.

[Article] The New Old Age

Life once followed a familiar pattern. You’d go to school, get a job, build a family, and then, sometime in your 60s, retire, enjoying life for a few years until you grew too frail to live on your own. Then you might move in with family or check into a facility where you’d spend your “golden years.”

[Report] The Giving Report 2025: Trends in Charitable Giving 2018-2024

In this eighth edition of The Giving Report, we look at the period of 2018-2024 to understand how giving has evolved during a period shaped by crisis and transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic and a se

[Article] What the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit Means for Older Adults

On January 26, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, which will increase the former Goods and Services Tax (GST) Credit by 25% for five years start

[Campaign] Small Steps Big Difference

It’s Never Too Early—or Too Late—to Protect Your Brain Health

[Participate] Understanding Motivation to Seek Help for Memory or Thinking Changes

Participants needed for a research project, “Understanding motivation to seek help for subjective cognitive changes in adults 55 and over,” This research study is led by principal investigato

[Podcast] How to Live to 100 (or Die Trying): Older men and suicide

Isolation and loneliness are the scourge of our later years.

[Article] The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025

10 popular articles from 2025 on Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more