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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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RECORDING: Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Age Friendly Communities
Ontario Caregiver Organization
Age-Friendly Communities (AFCs) optimize opportunities for health and wellbeing by ensuring their policies, planning processes, structures, and services are accessible to and inclusive of people of all ages and abilities. AFCs encourage us to look at how a community’s physical and social environme
Non-Profit Organizations and Volunteering Satellite Account: Human Resources Module, 2010 to 2019
Government of Canada
In 2019, non-profit organizations (NPOs)—serving households, businesses and governments—employed 2.5 million people, representing 12.8% of all jobs in Canada. The employment share ranged between 12.4% and 12.8%, increasing during the 2010-to-2019 period.
While the economic and social landscape
Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Canada
Royal Society of Canada
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance (the intent to receive a vaccine i.e. attitude not a behaviour) exists on a continuum ranging from a small minority of people who strongly oppose vaccination, through the heterogeneous ‘vaccine-hesitant’ or the ‘moveable middle’ group with varying levels of concer
The future of work: A hybrid work model
Accenture
The Accenture Future of Work Study 2021 explored what people need to be healthy and productive as we enter a new era of work.
A majority of workers (83%) prefer a hybrid work model, but a variety of factors influence their ability to thrive, whether they’re onsite or off.
Responsible leaders mus
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
National Film Board of Canada
Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm
Vaccine Report
CanAge
Adult vaccinations are a core pillar of any preventive health strategy, drastically relieving the burden on our overtaxed acute healthcare system at astonishing cost savings to all levels of government.
This leads to an uncomfortable but inevitable question: why is only 3% of Canada’s older po
Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work
Dax-Devlon Ross, Nonprofit Quarterly
Learn more about the generational differences in racial equity work that Dax-Devlon Ross has discovered:
In law school, I was trained to spot issues within fact patterns. In simplest terms, one’s grasp of the relevant law was ascertained by the degree to which one could read a set of facts and d
Beyond Donations: How Two Canadian Organizations are Rebuilding Community Wealth Post-COVID
Kenza Moller, Future of Good
Since COVID-19 first hit Canada in March 2020, the gap between the rich and poor has grown wider in communities, with nearly 40 percent of Canadians reporting deteriorating finances over the last year. The organizations that typically help them, however, are also suffering, with more than two-thirds
Responding to the COVID-19 emergency, returning to growth: older workers and the pandemic recovery
Jon Lai
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the Canadian economy in a severe and unprecedented manner. For older workers and their families, the pandemic represents an ongoing challenge to their livelihoods, employment status, and financial well-being. Moreover, the current public health risks associated wi
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