Older Adults

Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity – Fostering healthy aging through partnerships and social prescribing

This story from practice outlines how the Community Action and Resources Empowering Seniors (CARES) program worked with community non-profit organizations to prevent frailty and promote health, demonstrating an opportunity to enhance public health partnership. Social prescribing is highlighted as an intervention which supports client-centered action on the social determinants of health.

Addressing inequity and abuse in long-term care: Implications for public health practice

In this National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health event, an expert team of researchers from McMaster University will present findings from a CIHR-funded study that sheds light on abuse and inequity in long-term care homes in the province of Ontario. Using administrative data from Ministry of Long-Term Care inspection reports, the study demonstrates that

Learning from Practice: Promoting wellbeing and health equity among older adults

This NCCDH resource summarizes key themes found through several initiatives and their application to promote wellbeing and health equity among older adults in Canada.

Reorienting health services for health equity of older adults

This fifth webinar in the series will reinforce the importance of reorienting health services for older adults to promote health equity, address the social determinants of health, and shift from an illness to a wellness approach.

Digital literacy as an equity-focused strategy for older adults

This webinar explores how health literacy and digital literacy influence the building of personal health promoting skills among older adults.

Community engagement for equity and healthy aging

This webinar will explore the opportunities and challenges for strengthening community action that promotes health and equity for older Canadians.

Equitable and age-friendly communities

This second webinar in the series will explore the opportunities and challenges to creating supportive environments that promote health and equity for older Canadians. Speakers will discuss research efforts and policy developments to support the health of older adults, with attention to age-friendly programs and environments as a way to promote the health and quality

Promoting Health for Older Adults Part 1: Public policy for equity and healthy aging

This webinar is part of a series based on content from the book entitled Promoting the health of older adults: The Canadian experience. This first webinar in the series will explore the opportunities and challenges to building healthy public policies that promote health equity for older Canadians.

Webinar Series: Promoting Health for Older Adults

This five-part series will explore public health action on health equity for an aging population, including individual sessions based on the strategies for action in the Ottawa Charter.

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