TORONTO – Baycrest is pleased to announce an exclusive collaboration with TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks) to make its Goal Management Training (GMT) program available to more people in Canada and the United States. The collaboration will introduce GMT to TELUS Health’s AbilitiCBT platform that is currently being used by corporations, healthcare institutions, and health insurance companies.
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TORONTO – For-profit nursing homes in Canada’s largest city are vacating the sector rather than undertaking mandatory upgrades, creating a property sell-off that hinders the Ontario government’s promise of 60,000 new and upgraded beds by 2028.
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TORONTO – Are you a Canadian startup, community-based or youth-serving organization with an innovative solution to improve the lives of older adults and caregivers? The National Impact Challenge 2023 – Bold Innovations for Living, powered by AGE-WELL and SE Health, is a pitch competition that will bring together selected finalists from across Canada to pitch their technology, innovative program or service for aging with choice and dignity in Canada.
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Raised in Edmonton, Jakob Koziel is an enthusiastic champion for North America’s northernmost metropolis. Its cold winters thankfully give way to northern summers boasting up to 18 hours of sunlight a day – perfect for a place known as Festival City for the large volume of events over the summer months.
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TORONTO – The federal government has announced a $30 million investment to continue supporting the implementation of Canada’s National Dementia Strategy. This investment will be provided to the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) to help accelerate innovation in aging and brain health so that older adults can age safely in the setting of their choice while maintaining their cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being.
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As the population continues to age, an exodus of staff within elderly care during the pandemic has intensified pre-existing problems with retaining and growing the care workforce. By 2030, there will be 1.2 billion seniors over the age of 60 worldwide, making this one of the largest challenges facing our care system.
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MONTREAL – MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL are officially unveiling envisAGE, a large-scale pan-Canadian initiative whose mission is to catalyze Canada’s AgeTech ecosystem by supporting innovators to grow and scale their enterprises and deliver technology solutions that help older Canadians maintain a better quality of life, longer.
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OTTAWA – Best Buy Health, the Bruyère Research Institute, and AGE-WELL are partnering on new research into how technology is introduced into the home to support aging in place, in collaboration with experts from Carleton University. Researchers from Bruyère and Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design will be working with occupational therapists (OTs) to better understand how consumer technology, such as Best Buy’s Healthy Homes bundles, can be used to improve quality of life for older adults aging at home.
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TORONTO – Negotiating care and support later in life can present unique challenges for 2SLGBTQI older adults and their caregivers, for myriad social and structural reasons. To help address these challenges, Egale Canada and the National Institute on Ageing, with support from the Slaight Family Foundation, are pleased to launch The National Resource Centre on 2SLGBTQI Aging (NRCA).
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TORONTO – Amazon Canada announced the launch of Alexa Smart Properties, with new solutions that will enable senior living providers to integrate Alexa into their properties and empower residents to stay connected, informed and entertained – just by asking Alexa. Designed specifically for the needs of senior living communities, Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing Alexa-enabled devices at scale. It is designed to help properties offer customized Alexa experiences for residents and increase care-team productivity.
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