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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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More Than a Visitor: The Emerging Role of Essential Caregivers in Long-Term Care
Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging
This report is comprised of summaries of several research projects that the Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging (CIRA) team completed throughout 2020 and 2021 in partnership with the York Care Centre (YCC).
Visitation has been restricted for many long-term care facilities across the world d
Resilience: Why do some of us bounce back from adversity better than others?
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
The resilience scale from the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative is a metaphor to explain why some people seem more resilient than others and to help visualize how to improve resilience: the ability to respond positively in the face of adversity.
READ MORE HERE
Assessing the risk of side-effects of the COVID-19 vaccines
World Health Organization
If you have the choice of more than one vaccine and are wondering which one to take and how to assess the risk of side effects, this episode of Science in 5 with WHO’s Dr Katherine O’Brien is for you.
WATCH HERE
COVID-19 Vaccine Information for Older Canadians Available in Multiple Languages
National Institute on Ageing
The National Institute on Ageing (NIA) released a guidance document titled COVID-19 Vaccines: What Older Canadians Need to Know, authored by Dr. Samir Sinha, Ms. Sabina Vohra-Miller, and Dr. Jennie Johnstone. This report is now available in 13 languages.
The document outlines common questions arisi
List of Free Stock Image Websites
CORE Alberta
This post will be updated to include various online stock image websites that are accessible and diverse.Â
Age-Positive Image LibraryÂ
Royalty Free Stock Images by PixabayÂ
Stock Images & Videos by PexelsÂ
Nappy "provides beautiful, high-res photos of Black and Brown people...tacklin
RECORDING: CORE FALLS PREVENTION AWARENESS & EDUCATION LAUNCH EVENT
CORE Alberta
You can access the recording HERE.
Please find the slide deck shared during the presentation attached .
The CORE Falls Prevention Group hosted an Awareness and Education Launch on April 22, 2021 with guest speakers Melanie Morgan-Redshaw & Nan Shybunka from Finding Balance.Â
Here is th
Reconceptualizing the Social Economy
Gorgi Krlev, Giulio Pasi, Dominika Wruk & Marika Bernhard, Stanford Social Innovation Review
In Europe, the social economy has traditionally been seen as a way to address market failures, such as the financial exclusion of people living in poverty, or failures of the state, for example finding adequate responses to homelessness. In practice this meant creating welfare organizations, coopera
Blog: Poverty in Canada: A Progress Report
Edmonton Social Planning Council
One in nine Canadians lives in poverty—or 11% of the overall population. That’s according to the latest (and first) report from the National Advisory Council on Poverty. The good news is that this rate is trending downwards. The bad news is that other poverty indicators, such as food security, u
Overcoming vaccine hesitancy to reach herd immunity
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
As we battle a third wave of the pandemic across the country, now more than ever, it is important to communicate and educate populations on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. This is particularly challenging in a context where new information (and misinformation) about COVID-19 vaccines is em
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