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    Comprehensive new Canadian guideline for skeletal health and fracture prevention

    A comprehensive guideline from Osteoporosis Canada aims to help primary care professionals deliver care to optimize skeletal health and prevent fractures in postmenopausal females and males who are age 50 years and older. It is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). With 25 recommendations...

    13 companies chosen for UK-Canada healthy ageing exchange programme

    Thirteen innovative companies from across the UK and Canada have been selected to develop their healthy ageing solutions as part of an international innovation exchange programme. The UK Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange called on businesses with products that have the potential to improve the health...

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    How Canadian postal workers could better enable ageing in the right place

    Supporting Canada’s growing population of older adults looking to live in their own homes...

    In defense of falling

    At Toronto Rehab, embracing the risk of a fall may actually be part of...

    Home health monitoring: The future of senior continuity of care

    By  Jiang Li Providing ongoing care to geriatric patients presents a number of challenges including...

    Everyone has a role to play in shaping the future of dementia in Canada

    Dementia in Canada – current forecasts The Alzheimer Society of Canada recently released the first...

    Understanding the relationship between older adults and their environments

    By Annie Atkinson As a newly-minted Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Dr. Sayeh...

    Five innovations supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers

    By Arielle Ricketts Family caregivers of people living with dementia face unique challenges. Though caregiving...

    We are people before we are patients. The case for more humanity in Canadian healthcare.

    By Steven Wilson, CEO/Managing Director, Tegria Canada Canadian governments are currently making several decisions about...

    Geriatric Psychiatric Clinic supports complex needs of older adults

    By Selma Al-Samarrai The Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic is part of a multidisciplinary program, The Regional...

    At-risk seniors benefit from expanded geriatric assessment program

    By Maryanne Matthews Senior patients at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre are receiving the...