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Specialized pages offering information on crucial health issues affecting seniors.
Source: Health Canada
Do you have questions about how you, or an older person you care for, can stay healthy? This section is full of information to help those 55 and over stay active and well.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Seniors Canada On-line provides single-window access to Web based information and services that are relevant to seniors 55+, their families, caregivers and supporting service organizations.
Source: Seniors Canada On-line
The Division of Aging and Seniors, Public Health Agency of Canada, provides federal leadership in areas pertaining to aging and seniors. The Division serves as a focal point for information and centre of expertise. In executing all of its roles and responsibilities, the Division promotes the meaningful participation of seniors in federal decisions and activities that affect them.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Seniors on the margins : Seniors from ethnocultural minorities presents National Advisory Council on Aging's (NACA) opinions and recommendations on the systemic flaws that may prevent ethnocultural minority seniors from benefiting from the full range of Canadian health and social care services. This paper identifies a number of factors, gaps and challenges with respect to the unmet needs of immigrant and visible minority seniors, and provides recommendations for reducing the marginalization of these seniors and ensuring that they have appropriate access to health information, services and care.
Source: Government of Canada
This map of Canada shows old-age dependency ratios for the year 2000 divided by the respective ratios from 1991.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
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