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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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Care Partner Workbook: Respite Activity Toolkit
Alberta Health Services
The Care Partner Workbook is a resource tool designed to assist caregivers and/or families in creating meaningful activities for their loved one during respite. This workbook is part of the Respite Activity Toolkit that the Edmonton Zone Home Living Recreation Therapists have created and are now sh
RECORDING: COVID-19 Vaccines Get the Facts Webinar
Food Allergy Canada
In February 2021, Food Allergy Canada hosted a webinar with representatives from Health Canada and researchers and physicians with expertise in infectious diseases, immunology, and allergies. This webinar provides a thorough overview of COVID-19 vaccine development, risks and benefits associated wit
10 steps to community readiness: What countries should do to prepare communities for a COVID-19 vaccine, treatment or new test
World Health Organization
This document highlights 10 well established Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) principles that have proven their power. Together they put communities at the heart of the roll out of new vaccines, treatments and tests and promote trust, the critical ingredient for all community actio
Older adults needs assessment report (Edmonton, 2019)
Age Friendly Edmonton: City of Edmonton
This report provides highlights from the City of Edmonton 2018-19 older adults needs assessment. The results are compared to 2015 findings. Over 700 adults aged 55 and over, living in Edmonton completed telephone surveys, along with five focus groups, and 31 in-depth-interviews. This report offers
Strategies to support ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity for seniors
Seong-gee Um, Jessica Lee, & Poussy Boulos - The Wellesley Institute
The Wellesley Institute published an international review: Strategies to support ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity for seniors that aims to identify and describe promising strategies that have been developed to improve access to programs and services for seniors from diverse communities.
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Lip Reading Masks - Order now!
Canadian Hard of Hearing Edmonton Branch
The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association-Edmonton is selling lip reading masks! These clear masks are a great resource that can improve accessibility for Edmontonians who are deaf or hard of hearing. Masks are $22 and can be picked up at the CHHA-Edmonton office or shipped to your doorstep for $5.
How To Become A Mental Health Champion
Canadian Mental Health Association Calgary
A mental health champion is defined as any person a part of an organization who takes the necessary actions to:
Raise awareness of the real impacts of mental illness
Challenge and reverse the effects of mental health stigma within the workplace
Provide peer support and helpful resources to thei
Men's Sheds Edmonton Digital Information Sheet
Men's Sheds Edmonton
Men's Sheds Edmonton build and promote casual spaces for all men to connect, create, and socialize in a positive environment. We're a grassroots men’s health movement grounded in the spirit of camaraderie and the power of community.
A Men’s Shed is a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive place
Social Prescribing: A Call to Action
Dominik Alex Nowak, MD MHSc CCFP and Kate Mulligan, MA PhD
In this academic paper, social prescriptions are examined in light of the relationships that people have with their family doctors and how such relationships can affect the success of social prescribing programs.
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