Tag Archives: life course

CanAge Creates Age-Inclusive Roadmap

Since the COVID reality set in during the early days of Spring 2020, and the catastrophe of deaths in long-term care homes captured the headlines, notably in Ontario and Quebec, many organizations that already focused on advocacy for older adults jumped into action. One such entity, led by President, CEO Laura Tamblyn Watts – CanAge

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Navigating the Tides of Aging Together: CAG2019

Next up in the fall 2019 aging and longevity conference cycle is, in about three weeks, the 48th annual Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) conference, in Moncton, New Brunswick. As the title – Navigating the Tides of Aging Together – might suggest, the experience of navigating the waters of aging would not be limited to

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Age-friendly Global Network: Next Decade Looking Forward

Further to last week’s post, Age-Friendly Communities: Status Update, Halton Region, as promised I took a longer read of the recent 2018 WHO report titled The Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities: Looking back over the last decade, looking forward to the next. For a brief historical reminder, the Global Network formed in 2010

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Summer Shorts 28: On Anthropology & Aging – Study On!

Some full conference packages beg for a parsing out, worthy of looking at the separate threads that shape the bigger story. And that appears to me at least, to be the case with the recent event in Oxford, England – the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology & the Life Course (AAGE)

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Recoding a Longevity Society: Global Aging Narratives

Widening our lens on aging and longevity Looking for a break from North American conversation around the social aspects of aging and longevity, where the sameness of content has often numbed us from appreciating the realities of others around the world, I am more conscious these days, of how important it is to put our

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