Resources

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted the health and care of older adults, with particularly devastating consequences for residents, families and essential care partners in long-term care and retirement homes across Canada.

Bringing together diverse perspectives from across Canada to share what’s working, learn from progress and explore practical opportunities to improve healthcare.

As long-term care and retirement homes continue to adapt to COVID-19, collaborative learning is needed now more than ever. The Next Steps in COVID-19 Response webinar series brings people together so they can share with and learn from others facing similar challenges and opportunities in long-term care and retirement homes during the pandemic.

This webinar series focused on equity-promoting patient engagement in the health system.

Discover a practical framework for equitable and inclusive digital health co-design, featuring key principles, tools and real-world examples.

Explore ways to implement the coherent breathing approach from the Translating Research in Elder Care Breathing Toolkit.

Innovations that are supporting people living with dementia and care partners, closer to home.

Better at Home is a seniors-focused and community-centered program developed by Healthy Aging at United Way British Columbia (BC) in partnership with the province and organizations in the community-based seniors’ service (CBSS) sector. The program’s origins date to 2006 and the call by the Premier’s Council on Aging and Seniors’ Issues for a non-medical home support program that would enable older adults to remain living independently, with dignity, in their homes and local communities.

The NORC Innovation Centre (NIC) has created a pioneering aging-in-place model called the NORC program that is designed to enhance quality of life, social connection, personal well-being and access to healthcare for older adults. NORC, which stands for “naturally occurring retirement community,” refers to geographic areas – often residential buildings such as condos, co-ops and apartments – that were not originally planned for older adults but have naturally evolved to house a significant proportion of them.