Scotland’s Generations Working Together (GWT) is an organization I have followed since 2021. For me it leads a narrative on all things intergenerational, creating a solid agenda with an Intergenerational Manifesto as the foundation for a national conversation and a National Performance Framework with the Scottish Government providing funding from an Equalities and Human Rights Fund
After a start of the year spot check, cleanup and update of my Change Rangers website Resource section, I thought it would be timely to feature some of the organizations who research and publish content on ageing, and longevity, apart from the professional associations and organizations I regularly follow and feature in my weekly blog
Following my post earlier this month, here’s one more reminder that on September 24th, it’s Arts and Aging Day Canada, for the second year a day that highlights the value of arts-based activities for older adult communities. Supported by the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and the Sheridan Centre for Elder Research, once again this event is presented by Kate Dupuis, the
While Arts & Aging Day is primarily focused on featuring the selected artistic work of those who live in care homes, retirement communities, seniors or older adult community centres across the country, that should not exclude recognizing the active participation in various areas of the arts by older adults in our communities at large, which
Following the world of technology, aging & longevity actively over the last decade, I have decided for 2020, to put an added focus on it because as we enter this new decade it is quite apparent, that whatever strides the technology sector has made so far through research and product development, the opportunity launcher is
The WHO Global Age-friendly Cities and Communities Network formed in 2010 as an evolutionary response to the 2007 publication of the WHO Age-friendly Cities Guide, which in itself took some sixteen years to develop from The United Nations Principles for Older Persons Resolution A/RES/46/91 For some time, I have tracked and learned a lot about