Older Adults

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.

Aging and mental health policy framework

This 2023 report from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health describes the current state of evidence on the mental health of older adults. The report offers a policy framework for a comprehensive approach to aging and mental health including equity as a priority area for action.

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

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