Wrapped up the first half of 2024 webinars with a presentation (rescheduled from April 11th to June 11th) from Kate Mulligan – Senior Director, Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP) hosted by the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on the topic Health in Relationships: Social Prescribing Across
In 2022, CISP teamed with service design consultancy firm Bridgeable to produce an excellent summary report titled the Current State of Social Prescribing in Canada and since then a wide range of research and evaluation of existing practices has led to a deeper body of knowledge with virtual educational roadshows largely developed for professionals in
In the field of ageing and longevity, as with most concepts and models, trends and terminology seem to have arrived suddenly as news to some, such as AgeTech which grew up from the origins of gerontechnology in the 1980’s. So too it is with Social Prescribing, which according to legend had its origins also in
As a somewhat newcomer to the dialogue on Social Prescribing a little over two years ago at the November 2021 International Federation on Ageing conference, I have since followed this concept with great interest and fervour. With no shortage of outlets to discuss, learn and advocate among colleagues in the field of aging and longevity,