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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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Heading home from the hospital? Caregivers can play an important role in the discharge process
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
In Canada, millions of people are hospitalized each year. Between 2019 and 2020, over three million individuals were admitted to hospitals with an acute disease, illness, or medical conditionāsuch as heart attack, heart failure, bronchitis, or pneumonia. During the admittance process, key informat
Blood pressure as we age: What is a healthy target?
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
In this video, Drs. Anthony Levinson and Richard Sztramko will discuss high blood pressure and what healthy blood pressure targets are for older adults. You will meet Russel who has taken their blood pressure at a local pharmacy and gotten a result of 140/95. Find out what their best next steps woul
How to repair long-term care in Canada
Ann Silversides, The Philanthropist
In the early months of the pandemic, Canadians were shocked by a cascade of deaths in long-term care homes. By mid-2020, 80% of COVID-19 deaths in Canada were in these facilities. That our vulnerable elderly died this way will remain our lasting shame and disgrace.
A year later, Canada still had, a
Social isolation: Are you at risk?
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Human beings are social animals. We live with others, we communicate with each other, and we support and cooperate with each other, which may have given us an evolutionary advantage. When a person doesnāt have others to be with, they become socially isolated, which is something older adults are at
Creating Reconciliation for You, Others, and Life
Returning to Spirit, Imagine Canada
The word āreconciliationā appears with increasing urgency as we approach our first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
With it comes a heaviness that occupies spaces of dissatisfaction, cynicism, or outright anger that equates to āfailure,ā especially regarding Indian Residential Scho
Health Care Costs in Alberta: A Brief Overview
Sung Min Jo, Edmonton Social Planning Council
At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemicāarguably the biggest public health crisis of our timeātransformed the prospects of Albertaās economic climate.
In response to these historic events, the government responded with surplus funding to meet public health mandates including mobilizin
New Interactive Resource for Older Adults Reducing the Risk of Social Isolation
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
In 2017, Statistics Canada reported that 1 in 5 older adults are lonely, felt they lack company, felt abandoned or isolated.
By taking this short, interactive lesson, you will learn the answers to the following questions:
What are the risk factors for social isolation?
Are there specific groups
Reckoning with Slavery: Revisiting Managementās Uncomfortable Past
Caitlin Rosenthal, Nonprofit Quarterly
This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, āReckoning with Slavery: How Revisiting Managementās Uncomfortable Past Can Help Us Create Better Futures,ā published earlier this year by the Academy of Management Learning & Education.
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Staying indoors: the long-term impact of lockdown on older adultsā health and wellbeing
Centre for Ageing Better
In this blog, Alison Giles, Associate Director for Healthy Ageing, discusses how the pandemic has increased the declines in physical activity that start to occur after age 50.
Back in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as more and more people were being treated in intensive care and the death
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