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.
Older Adults
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.
Promoting Health for Older Adults – Webinar series
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) are collaborating on a series of webinars based on content from the book entitled “Promoting the Health of Older Adults: the Canadian Experience”.
Promoting the health of older adults: The Canadian experience
This 2021 book from Rootman et al. presents current research, context and lived expertise of older adults, framed around the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.
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.
Older people and COVID‐19: Isolation, risk and ageism
This commentary article from Brooke and Jackson reviews how COVID-19 carries increased health risks, negative consequences of social isolation and stigma associated with age for older adults.
Aging in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Avoiding ageism and fostering intergenerational solidarity
This manuscript from Ayalon et al. explores the intersection of ageism with the COVID-19 pandemic response, including ethics of healthcare decision making and negative impacts of social isolation.