Even in a webinar on Social Prescribing back in March, I recall asking how referrals for social prescribing were reaching younger generations. In the April 8th CIHR Institute of Aging session on Ageing in Cities, when I asked about the development of intergenerational connections in NORC’s, it was Paula Rochon from Women’s College Hospital Research &
Since the age-friendly or age-inclusive narrative began, as it relates to cities, communities or neighbourhoods, many concepts have been proposed and several adopted as we have looked for multiple options that work in an integrated way. Adopting a version of an old adage – a well watered root will take its time to find a
Earlier this month in the third of their highly engaging series Housing That Connects Us, the Vancouver based Hey Neighbour Collective continued the dialogue focused on the aspect of affordability, a term which, when applied to the housing challenge, carries some loosely gathered interpretations. This at a time when housing interconnects with impacts of climate
At the start of the New Year, as I did last January, here are some updates to the Change Rangers website Resource section featuring this time, new information I gathered from webinars, conferences or recommendations in conversations from colleagues that may have been referenced in previous posts in 2023 – websites, reports, journals and other
In the second Housing That Connects Us webinar on Nov.9th hosted by the Hey Neighbour Collective in Vancouver, featured primarily were two UK innovators -design consultant Natasha Reid,founder of Matter. Space. Soul. – and Paul Quinn from Clarion Housing Group a non-market housing association, about their ongoing initiatives to help create sustainable multi-unit housing development projects, that
Over the last few years, housing – whether it be a shortage or non-existence of, affordability of, or location of, not to mention dislocation of – has become at the forefront, a complex social issue of great concern, if not crisis, for low, middle and high income countries, hitting a crescendo in 2023. While we’re