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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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'It's Not a Burden' — the New Film on Caregiving for Your Parents
Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue
Picture:Â Filmmaker Michelle Boyaner with her mom Elaine, a star in "It's Not a Burden" Â | Â Credit: courtesy of Greenie Films
Funny, heartfelt and fantastic, this film shines a spotlight on the complexities of caregiving for your mom or dad.
Much of the 87-minute cinema verité documentary by t
Vital Topic — Primer on Income and the Cost of Living in Edmonton
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Edmonton Vital Signs is an annual checkup conducted by Edmonton Community Foundation, in partnership with Edmonton Social Planning Council, to measure how the community is doing. Vital Topics are a quick but comprehensive look at issues that are timely and important to Edmonton. For this edition, ES
#AgeingWithPride
Centre for Ageing Better
To mark Pride Month 2021, we've gathered stories from a number of older LGBT+ people to share their perspectives on inequality, community and how attitudes towards LGBT+ people have changed.
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Moral Leadership: A Conversation with Dr. Nicholas Harvey and Dr. Robert Franklin, Part II
Edge Leadership, Nonprofit Quarterly
Moral leadership—the presence of one or two women or men of integrity, courage, imagination, seeking to challenge people, to serve the common good—represents the single most important predictor of whether or not an organization will remain relevant and effective and ethical.
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Vital Topic — Gaps in the Social Safety Net
Justine Basilan, Edmonton Social Planning Council
Edmonton Vital Signs is an annual checkup conducted by Edmonton Community Foundation, in partnership with Edmonton Social Planning Council, to measure how the community is doing. Vital Topics are a quick but comprehensive look at issues that are timely and important to Edmonton.
For this edition, t
Caring for LGBTQ2S+ Elders
Centre for Studies in Aging and Health
This reading list includes links to and summaries of a variety of resources including considerations regarding LGBTQ2S+ Older Adults. Sub-topics include social strengths, health knowledge, cultural awareness, elder abuse and neglect, caregiving outcomes, long-term care needs, experiences of ethnic m
The 2020 Emotion Wheel
Abby VanMuijen
Artist Abby VanMuijen's goal for this wheel is that it helps you to:
Give yourself permission to feel any of the words on it
Build your emotional vocabulary and develop language to describe how you feel
Slow down and notice how your emotions show up in and around your body
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fACTivist Feature Article: Addressing Racialized Populations’ Barriers to Affordable Housing
Sydney Sheloff and Brett Lambert, Edmonton Social Planning Council
Among Canadians who experience homelessness or housing instability, there is a disproportionate number who come from racialized populations—this can include Indigenous peoples, refugees, and newcomers alike. According to data collected by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness’ Homeless Hub, t
Changes in the incidence of seasonal influenza in response to COVID-19 social distancing measures: an observational study based on Canada’s national influenza surveillance system
Andrew Pierce, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Diana Marin, Zulma V. Rueda & Yoav Keynan, Canadian Journal of Public Health
Seasonal influenza is an acute respiratory infection that presents a significant annual burden to Canadians and the Canadian healthcare system. Social distancing measures that were implemented to control the 2019–2020 novel coronavirus outbreak were investigated for their ability to lessen the inc
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