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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.

Go for it: A guide to choosing and using assistive devices
A thorough and useful document designed to encourage seniors to explore all the assistive devices at their disposal. It offers tips on figuring out what you need, where to obtain it and how to get financial help if you need it.
Source: Government of Canada. Health Canada.

Healthy Living, Community and Home
This site developed by Health Canada provides seniors, grandparents, caregivers, health and social service professionals, with helpful tips on the safe acquisition, use and appropriate maintenance of consumer products in the home.

Home Adaptation Checklist
This checklist identifies adaptations that could help prevent accidents and enhance independence. It also gives some guidelines on how to hire a reputable contractor.
Source: Canada Safety Council

Home Adaptations for Seniors' Independence Program
This program helps homeowners and landlords pay for minor home adaptations to extend the time low-income seniors can live in their own homes independently.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Home Fire Safety for Seniors
Fire safety is a crucial issue for seniors who choose to live in their own home. Those caring for aging loved ones who wish to remain at home need to understand the fire risks and how to deal with them.
Source: Canada Safety Council

How to Prevent Falls in the Home
This Web page gives general information on preventive measures to avoid falls.
Source: Canada Safety Council

Injury Prevention
This article discusses some of the major causes of injury to seniors -- in the house, the yard and/or nearby walkways and sidewalks -- and some of the ways they can reduce their risk.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada

It's Your Health - Seniors and Aging - Assistive Devices
As age advances, some seniors experience discomfort or fear when doing activities they enjoyed in their younger years.
Source: Health Canada

Just for You - Seniors
In partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Health Canada provides national leadership to develop health policy, enforce health regulations, promote disease prevention and enhance healthy living for all Canadians.

Maintaining Seniors' Independence Through Home Adaptations
The overwhelming majority of seniors wish to continue to live in their own homes for as long as possible. However, many homes are not well designed to meet our changing needs as we age. This Guide identifies the types of difficulties that seniors can experience and describes types of adaptations that can help overcome these difficulties.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Persons with Disabilities Online : I am a Service Provider
The following is a collection of links to services and information useful for service providers.
Source: Service Canada

Persons with Disabilities Online: I am a Caregiver or Family Member
The following is a collection of links to services and information useful for caregivers and family members.
Source: Service Canada

Preventing Falls on Stairs
This fact sheet tells you about some of the ways you can reduce the risk of falling on or from residential stairs.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Promising Pathways: A handbook of best practices
Falls represent a serious and widespread problem in Canada, with about one third of older Canadians experiencing a fall each year, and many suffering the pain and loss of independence that often result. Section 1 of Promising Pathways provides information on the most effective strategies and interventions for reducing falls and preventing injuries among seniors who live in the community.
Source: Health Canada

Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (<abbr>RRAP</abbr>) On-Reserve
Financial assistance for Band Councils and Band members to repair substandard homes to a minimum level of health and safety and to improve accessibility to housing for disabled persons.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The Royal Canadian Legion
The Royal Canadian Legion is Canada's largest Veterans "ex-service person" and community service organization with more than 480,000 members and 1,600 branches in Canada, USA and Germany. They provide services to Veterans, ex-service persons, seniors, youth and numerous community-based charities.
Source: The Royal Canadian Legion

Safe Food Handling for Adults 60+
To reduce the risk of food born illness, it is essential for older adults, and those who prepare food for older adults, to follow safe food-handling and cooking practices. Here are some important food safety tips to help.

The Safe Living Guide&mdash;A Guide to Home Safety for Seniors
This guide will give you some ideas about what you can do to prevent injuries in and around your home. It looks at two main areas: your home and yourself. Practical information in the form of fact sheets and tips, as well as a resource section, complete the guide.

Safety and the Aging Driver
The Canada Safety Council offers a few tips to help older drivers stay safe behind the wheel.
Source: Canada Safety Council

Safety Tips for the Older Driver
The aging process brings changes that can affect the older driver's ability to drive safely. The rate of aging varies for each individual, but it is important to recognize age-related changes and learn how to compensate for them.
Source: Canada Safety Council

Seniors &ndash; Medication Mixing
This Web page explains the importance of taking medications properly.
Source: Canada Safety Council

Seniors and Aging - Assistive Devices
A thorough and useful document designed to encourage seniors to explore all the assistive devices at their disposal. It offers tips on figuring out what you need, where to obtain it and how to get financial help if you need it.
Source: Health Canada

Seniors Guidebook to Safety and Security
This information is directed towards the community and, more specifically, seniors and their care givers in recognizing elder abuse, frauds and scams.

Seniors, Sleeping Pills and Tranquillizers (Brochure)
This site discusses what are considered sleeping pills and tranquillizers, their effects, related dependency issues, withdrawal symptoms, drug interactions, alternatives to use, and tips for responsible use.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada