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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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[Report] Empowering Women for Healthy Aging: Key Policy Actions to Address Healthy Challenges Across the Life Course
Global Coalition on Aging
Click HERE to View ResourceThe report "Empowering Women for Healthy Aging" from the Global Coalition on Aging highlights the critical role of women in aging societies. It calls for policies that address women's health across their life course, emphasizing the need for better research, healthcare tra
[Report] Engaging Older Women in Your Community: A Promising Practices Guide for Women’s and Senior Serving Organizations
Canadian Centre for Elder Law
Engaging Older Women in your Community is a promising practices tool developed as an outcome of the Older Women’s Dialogue Project (OWDP). The publication is intended to support your agency to anticipate and address structural barriers to the participation of older women in community initiatives aimed at legal and policy change. We include key questions to explore, tips for enhancing organizational capacity to include older women, and examples from our experience throughout the OWDP.
[Interactive Map] Pet Food Bank Map
Humane Canada
Click HERE to learn MoreThe National Pet Food Bank map is an interactive resource that provides information on pet food assistance programs across Canada. Search the map by province, city, or postal code to find a list of local programs and information on how to access them. To Navigate the Map: 1
[Research Report] The warm expert—A warm teacher? Learning about digital media in intergenerational interaction
Carolina MartĂnez and Tobias Olsson
This study explores the concept of "warm experts," individuals who help others, particularly older adults, learn digital technologies. Through interviews with older adults aged 70 to 94, the research examines how learning from family, especially children and grandchildren, impacts their digital skil
[Report] WOMEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF AGING IN CANADA
Womens College Hospital
This report highlights the health and well-being challenges that older women face daily and on a systemic level.
"You don’t get side effects from social prescribing”—A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing
A. P. Rathbone, H. Pearson, O. Akinyemi, et al.
Abstract:"ObjectivesSocial prescribing is an approach that enables the referral of patients to non-clinical support and places a focus on holistic care. This study explored views of community pharmacists regarding social prescribing in pharmacies.
Study designA qualitative phenomenological approach
[Part 2] Special issue: Social prescribing in Canada: an emerging approach to health and well-being, part II
HPCDP Journal, Government of Canada
Volume 44, number 9 of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Journal features emerging research and collaborative initiatives aimed at advancing social prescribing in Canada.
This issue includes:
Editorial Social prescribing in Canada: linking the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
[Report] Sector Snapshot April- June 2024
Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP)
The Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP) aims to ensure that policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and the general public have accurate, timely, and comprehensive information about the charitable sector in Canada. Through weekly surveys and reports , an online interactive information and
[Report] Dementia in the Commonwealth Report
CommonAge
New report sheds light on dementia in the Commonwealth
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