Maintaining Seniors' Independence Through Home Adaptations: A Self-Assessment Guide (2009)
Designed for seniors, this large-print Guide identifies the types of difficulties seniors can experience in the home and describes adaptations to overcome these difficulties. This Guide helps seniors assess their own unique circumstances including using stairs, moving around the house, doing laundry and answering the door.
Developed by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Better Vision for Seniors: A Public Health Imperative (2017)
Canadian Association of Optometrists Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
Pour les aînés, par les aînés : conversations communautaires
Ce projet visait à créer un lieu de rassemblement virtuel où les aînés pourront se rencontrer et rencontrer des experts pour aborder les enjeux qui comptent le plus pour eux lorsqu’il s’agit de vieillir chez soi en santé et en sécurité.
Healthy Aging through Fall Prevention among Older Aboriginal People (2011)
The Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging, the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit, the BC Seniors Secretariat, and the University of Victoria Centre on Aging hosted a two-day symposium exploring the elements of an Aboriginal approach to Fall Prevention. The following report summarizes the agenda and rationale for the Symposium, the role of knowledge translation, key themes and emerging discussions, information generated, and suggestions for the next steps for creating an Aboriginal approach to fall prevention.
Sally Lockhart
Sally Lockhart is currently in the process of retiring from chairing a local not-for-profit cooperative community board that has built an affordable residence for seniors needing more care than they can get at home. Before becoming an injury prevention consultant in 1999, she worked in child injury prevention with Health Canada (7 years) and before that, […]