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Expression: Bulletin of the National Advisory Council on Aging

Self-help groups

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  1. Greg Meissen, "Types of self-help groups research with seniors," in Self-help/mutual aid for seniors: research challenges, Report of the discussion session at the Canadian Association of Gerontology, Montréal, 30 October 1993, p. 13.

  2. Jean-Marie Romeder et al., The self-help way: Mutual aid and health. Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development, 1990.

  3. Francine Lavoie and Miriam Stewart, "Mutual aid groups and support groups: the Canadian context," Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 14/2 (Fall 1995).

  4. Brian Hyndman, Does self-help help? A review of the literature on the effectiveness of self-help programs. Toronto: Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, 1996.

  5. See Kate R. Lorig et al., "Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing hospitalization," Medical Care 37/1 (1999); and Randi Fine, Taking charge: seniors helping seniors, final report. Toronto: 1992, p. 7.

  6. See Karen Hill, Helping You Helps Me, revised edition (Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development, 1987); Self-help/mutual aid for seniors, especially articles by Fine, p. 25, and Romeder, p. 8; Bonnie Pape, An introduction to self-help/mutual aid (Canadian Mental Health Association/Self-Help Canada, 1990); and Joy M. Rogers, Mutual aid as a mechanism for health promotion and disease prevention (Toronto: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 1987.)

  7. Canadian Mental Health Association, Bringing the self-help message to seniors, National Forum Report (Toronto: 1998).

  8. Toronto's Self-Help News, newsletter of the SHRCGT, winter 1999.

  9. Health Canada, Supporting self-care: the contribution of nurses and physicians, an exploratory study; programs and tools. Ottawa: 1997, p. 62.

  10. Benjamin Gottlieb and Miriam Stewart, in a Fact sheet on Self-help and Mutual aid, n.d.

  11. Meissen in Self-help/mutual aid for seniors, pp. 19, 20.

  12. Fine in Self-help/mutual aid for seniors, pp. 25, 28.

  13. Rogers, Mutual aid..., p. 5.

  14. Fine, Taking charge, p. 7.

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