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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

Getting Ready to Retire
Are you getting ready to retire? There are some things you need to know:
Source: Government of Ontario

Older Adult Centres' Association of Ontario
The Older Adult Centres' Association of Ontario ensures that older adults in Ontario have opportunities and choices that lead to healthy, active lifestyles.

Ontario Partnership on Aging & Developmental Disabilities
<abbr>OPADD</abbr> mission is to ensure that the general and special needs of persons with a developmental disability who are aging, are identified and addressed effectively. That older adults with a developmental disability have the same rights to support and services as all older Ontarians.
Source: Ontario Partnership on Aging and Developmental Disabilities

Ottawa Lifelong Learning (<abbr>OLL</abbr>) for Older Adults
To offer older adults an opportunity to interact with students in an elementary and/or post-secondary setting that will provide enrichment through learning for both generations.
Source: Ottawa Life Long Learning for Older Adults

Regional Geriatric Programs of Ontario
Provides a comprehensive network of specialized geriatric services which assess and treat functional, medical, and psychosocial aspects of illness and disability in older adults who have multiple and complex needs.
Source: Regional Geriatric Programs of Ontario

Seniors' Info
Seniors' Info has been created to provide ready access to information and services delivered by all levels of government and community-based agencies serving older adults. It is our pleasure to bring this first gateway to information and services to the citizens.
Source: Seniors' Info

Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults in Institutional Settings
This paper provides a general overview of concepts and issues concerning abuse and neglect in institutional settings. The primary objectives are to increase awareness, while stimulating discussion and action.

Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults: Community Awareness and Response
This document has been written for concerned seniors, interested community members, and service providers who wish to address the abuse and neglect of older adults.
Source: Health Canada

Abuse of Older Adults
The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, for the first time, has produced a listing of services and programs that address the needs of older adult victims of violence in Canada.

Abuse of Older Adults: Justice Canada Overview Paper
This fact sheet provides information about abuse of older adults from a justice perspective.

Active Living Coalition for Older Adults - Research to Action Publication
This article describes the impact of arthritis on older adults, its signs and symtoms, as well as the associated medications and physical activity for the treatment of the chronic disease.
Source: Active Living Coalition for Older Adults

Best Practices: Treatment and Rehabilitation for Seniors with Substance Use Problems
List of publications and studies.
Source: Government of Canada. Health Canada. Population and Public Health Branch. Division of Aging and Seniors.

Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults
This Health Canada publication explains why physical activity is important, offers tips and easy ways to increase physical activity, and states how much is needed to maintain good health and improved quality of living later in life.
Source: Health Canada

Canada's retirement income system
Besides your personal savings and investments, do you know how much money you can expect to receive in retirement? To help you better plan for your retirement, it's important to understand the various parts of Canada's retirement income system.

The Canadian Centre for Elder Law
A non-profit organization committed to enriching and informing the lives of older adults in their relationship with the law; to meet the increasing need for education and research in relation to legal issues of particular significance for older adults.
Source: The Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies

Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health
The mission of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health ( <abbr title="Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health"> CCSMH </abbr>) is to promote the mental health of older persons/seniors by connecting people, ideas and resources.
Source: Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health

Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
This website provides information to raise awareness of key issues around abuse and neglect in later life and to assure older adults are treated as full citizens in Canadian society.
Source: Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

Caregiving Strategies for Older Adults with Delirium,Dementia and Depression
This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses (<abbr>RN</abbr>s and <abbr>RPN</abbr>s) who provide care to clients with delirium, dementia and depression in the acute, long-term and community care settings. This guideline incorporates best practices related to caregiving strategies of older adult aged 65 years and older with delirium, dementia and depression.
Source: Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Food Safety for Older Adults
This booklet explains safe food cooking temperatures, food storage and high-risk foods.
Source: Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education.

Institute of Aging 2008 Summer Program in Aging (<abbr>SPA</abbr>)
The aim of the Summer Program in Aging (<abbr title="Summer Program in Aging">SPA</abbr>), offered by the <abbr>CIHR</abbr> Institute of Aging, is to provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows involved in aging research a program of advanced training that crosses disciplines, sectors, institutions, and geography.
Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Knowing Your Audience: Some Facts About Aboriginal Seniors
This Web page offers brief statistics on Aboriginal Seniors in Canada.

Observatoire Vieillissement et Société
Promotes the "well&#8209;aging" of seniors.
Source: Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal. Observatory on Ageing and Society

Overcoming Ageism in Active Living
This report dicusses the sterotypes preventing older adults from engaging in physical activity and the how they can be overcome in order to improve the health of Canadian seniors.
Source: Active Living Coalition for Older Adults

Physical activity - tips for older adults (65 years and older)
Provides tips that will help older adults improve and maintain their health by being physically active every day.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada