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Retirement

5. Health & wellness
a. Aging and healthy living:
  • HealthyOntario: "The HealthyOntario.com web site, launched in October 2002, was created to provide Ontarians with a world-leading web destination for trusted health information, services and advice for healthier living."

  • Health Canada Seniors: "The Division of Aging and Seniors, Health Canada, provides federal leadership in areas pertaining to aging and seniors. The Division serves as a focal point for information and centre of expertise."

  • Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging: "To develop, encourage and promote an active, healthy lifestyle for Canadian adults that will enchance the dignity of the aging process."

  • Ontario Gerontology Association: "an incorporated voluntary organization concerned with aging, thereby promoting quality of life for older adults. Its membership provides an inter-disciplinary forum for those involved in the field of gerontology."

  • The Health Line: "Through thehealthline.ca, older adults can connect with local programs and services that provide support, health care, and recreational and social opportunities for seniors. For people who can no longer safely live on their own, there is a list of Retirement/Residential Communities and Long-Term Care Centres, formerly known as Nursing Homes."

  • Project S.E.N.I.O.R. (Stop Elder Neglect In Our Region): "A project, initiated by the London Police Service, bringing together a group of service providers and senior representatives, who work together, to develop a community based and senior driven response network. We are dedicated to addressing issues and incidents of abuse and neglect of older adults in an effort to make London and Middlesex County a place where seniors can live with respect, dignity, and free from any form or threat of abuse."

  • The Clearinghouse on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly (CANE), located at the University of Delaware.

  • Committee on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

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