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Encore Seniors' Education Centre
Founded in 1994, this award winning program offers a variety of learning opportunities to enrich the lives of older adults, utilizing local resources and volunteers. The members of the volunteer board which runs the program and the volunteer instructors are all seniors from the community.
Source: Encore Seniors' Education Centre

Physical activity
Active people are more productive, with less time off work for illness and injury. They also report greater self-esteem and personal self-reliance. For youth in particular, physical activity offers a creative outlet for leisure time.
Source: ACTIVE2010

Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
This website explains how to best use Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating. It will help you make food choices for healthier eating every day.
Source: Health Canada

Lessons In Learning: Never Too Old to Learn: Seniors and Learning in Canada
Research publication describing: why should seniors keep learning, what are some possible solutions to these barriers and what are some possible solutions to these barriers.
Source: Canadian Council on Learning

Screening for Delirium, Dementia and Depression in the Older Adult
This guideline focuses on: (1) Practice recommendations: directed at the nurse to guide practice regarding assessment and screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults; (2) Education recommendations: directed at educational institutions and organizations in which nurses work to support its implementation; (3) Organization and policy recommendations: directed at practice settings and the environment to facilitate nurses? practice; (4) Evaluation and monitoring indicators.
Source: Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

You Can Prevent Falls! - Health Canada
The objective of these fact sheets is to inform seniors, veterans, their families and caregivers of the many things that can make a difference in the quality of life of the aging person.
Source: Health Canada

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