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Health and Community Support Services
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Organizations that may fit into this sector:
- Hospitals
- Specialized Geriatric services
- Mental Health Agencies
- Doctor’s offices
- Dentists’ offices
- Home care
- Community support services (e.g. adults day programs, meal programs, home maintenance)
- Other health professionals
How does health and community support services contribute to an age friendly community?
Accessible health and community support services enable older adults to remain active, healthy members of our community for as long as possible. It provides opportunities to age-in-place as well as to remain connected to their community. There are additional benefits for an age friendly community located on the introduction page of the website.
How can policies, programs, and practices within the health and community support services sector reflect the principles of an age friendly community?
What can the health and community support services sector do to help create an age friendly community?
- Use the three building blocks to identify the strengths and areas for improvement of your health and community support services/programs:
- Learn about programs and services in the health and community support sectors in your community
- Use the available resources below to get ideas on potential programs for your community to have a more age friendly health and community supports sector
What are some additional resources?
- World Health Organization Buildings, Parks, and Outdoor spaces Checklist
- An 12 point checklist on health and community social services features for an age friendly community
- Remote and Rural Checklist
- A list of key features, barriers, and suggestions for improving health and community social services in an age friendly community
- Towards Age Friendly Primary Healthcare
- A World Health Organization document that outlines general principles on information and training, community-based healthcare management, and physical environment related to primary healthcare
- A Guide to Programs and Services for Seniors in Ontario – Ontario Senior’s Secretariat
- A guide outlining some of the key home support services available in Ontario
- Code Plus: Design Components of an Elder Friendly Hospital – Fraser Health Authority
- A resource outlining four key areas for good design in elder friendly hospitals including Physical environment Design Assessment Tool
- Diversity in Action – A Toolkit for Residential Settings for Seniors
- A toolkit that contains a number of tools and resources for organizations to reflect on their policies, practices, and environmental supports for seniors in a culturally diverse settings
- LGBT Toolkit – For Creating Culturally Competent Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons
- Tools and resources for long term care homes to be more inclusive of LGBT senior
- Prevention of Elder Abuse Policy and Program Lens
- A framework developed to assess policies, programs, and practices from the perspective of preventing, detecting, and responding to elder abuse
- National Associations related to a variety of aging health concerns (access to more local or regional resources will be available through the national websites)
- Alzheimer Society Canada
- Parkinson Society
- Cancer Society
- Heart and Stroke
- Diabetic
- Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
- Universal Design and Barrier Free Access: guidelines for persons with hearing loss
- Canadian Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
- Local Health Integrations Network The contact information for all of the Ontario Local Health Integrations Network
- Building a Global Framework to Address the Needs and Contributions of Older People in Emergencies
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