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If you are a senior, air pollution could have a negative impact on your health. This is because seniors are more likely than other adults to have health problems such as heart and lung disease. You can better protect yourself when you know that air pollution affects your health.
Source: Health Canada
There are myths about aging in most societies. Where do these myths come from? Why are they so pervasive? What effects do they have on health? on intergenerational relationships? on policy? This issue of Expression examines the myths and the reality and recommends action at all levels to counter stereotypes about aging.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
What is the role of sexual expression in later life? What are the normal changes that age brings? What barriers and myths prevent seniors from enjoying a healthy sexual life? What resources, devices, medications, etc. are available to help seniors maintain or regain sexual intimacy in later life if they want to?
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
This issue of Expression is about the benefits of recounting our life. It's also about the many simple ways of leaving a legacy while creating intimacy and building bridges between generations that have the same human need of connection and purpose.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Aging well is not an all-or-nothing concept. Nutrition, physical and mental activity, social connexion and engagement are critical elements of well-being that contribute to success, but so do adapting and compensating for the normal losses of aging. Governments and communities also have a role to play in providing the conditions to age successfully.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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