Growing Stronger - Strength Training for Older Adults
A series of activities to build strength, maintain bone density, improve balance, coordination, and mobility, reduce risk of falling, and help maintain independence in performing activities of daily life, are both described and illustrated.
Yoga: The Body, Breath, Mind Connection
This issue of Wellspring addresses the benefits of yoga, understanding the linking of mind, breath and body, and adapting movements to individual needs.
Preventing Falls Through Physical Activity: A Guide for People Working with Older Adults
This guide is for people who are helping older adults to be active. It offers practical information on falls and physical activity as well as exercises and fun ideas to work on balance and strength. Use this resource in your work with older adults in your community to help them stay independent and lower their risk of falling.
The guide is divided into seven sections:
- Facts About Falls
- Being Active, Being Safe
- Planning Physical Activity for Preventing Falls
- Exercises
- Find out More
- References
- Appendices
How to Select an Age-Friendly Fitness Facility
This is a comprehensive checklist to assist in comparing and rating local facilities, with sections on facilities operations, equipment, programming and staff.
Marketing and Communicating to Older Adults
This presentation from the Canadian Centre on Activity and Aging 2009 Research to Action conference provides an overview of marketing fundamentals - know your product, know your audience, have a plan - and how to apply this to the older adults market segment.
Working successfully with the news media
This presentation, from the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging 2009 Research to Action Symposium discusses the value and importance of media relations, how to present your story and respond to interviews.
Live Well Age Well
Research to Action: Activity and Aging. Conference Presentations
Presentations at this conference covered the following topics:
- Working with the Media
- Marketing and Communicating to Older Adults
- Examining older adults beliefs about strength training
- Cardiovascular responses to endurance training: age and sex-specific adaptations
- Physical Activity for Older Adult Cancer Survivors
- Post Rehab Exercise for Stroke (PRES) Workshop
- Functional Activity Measures Workshop
- Balls, Bands and Balance for Active Aging Workshop
- The Relationship between Exercise & Brain Function: The Parkinson’s Example
Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities
This checklist is intended to be used by individuals and groups interested in making their city more age-friendly. It contains the following sections:
- Outdoor spaces and buildings
- Transportation
- Housing
- Social participation
- Civic participation and employment
- Respect and social inclusion
- Communication and information
- Community and health services
Creating Caring Communities: A guide to establishing intergenerational programs for schools, care facilities and community groups.
This resource contains practical information and resources to support educators, care providers and community agencies in coordinating successful intergenerational (IG) programs that promote learning, understanding, and mutual respect between generations.
LINK Project: Linking Intergenerational Needs and Knowledge - Train the Trainer
Contained within this document are the Intergenerational Best Practices Guidelines. In regards to Intergenerational Programs (IGPs) it is meant to "be a guide to inform, to support, and to educate."
Lieutenant Governor’s Intergenerational Award: Application Form
Example of an application form and criteria for awards for volunteer groups, youth, and older adults.
Model Intergenerational Programs: Strategies for the Future
Summarizes 24 categories of model intergenerational programs in schools and communities.
Generations Working Together
A series that provides basic concepts about intergenerational
programs including:
- The Benefits of Intergenerational Connections
- Introducing Intergenerational Experiences in Schools
- Recruiting and Linking Older Adults and Students
- Enriching the Curriculum
Communication between Generations
- Celebrate the Event
- What is Service Learning?
- Benefits of Service Learning
- Service Learning Links All Levels of Education
Aging Across the Curriculum
The manual lists six key concepts on aging that are used throughout all educational levels and all disciplines. Each section includes goals, curriculum suggestions, and examples of activities for preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels.
Activity Tracker for older adults
Use this personal Activity Tracker to set personal physical activity goals. After choosing the kinds of activities you like to do, you can track how physically active you are every day. A handy monthly progress chart allows you to see whether you’re meeting your goals. The Activity Tracker for older adults also allows you to set goals (following Canada's Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults), choose your activities and track your progress.
Powerful Programming - Programming for all Generations
Provides information on the core concepts of aquatics programming for all generations from children through older adults. Presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario Aquatics 2008 conference.
Winter Active Winter Smart (Safe)
This presentation from the Fireside Chats series, held on February 8, 2008 provides information about falls prevention and staying safely active in the winter, particularly for older adults and first nations.
Generations Being Active Together: Guidelines for Intergenerational Physical Activity Programs
Includes nine key guidelines to address in the design, implementation and evaluation of intergenerational physical activity programs. What is essential to all IGPA programs is that there is an opportunity for fun, safe and active participation by all. Also includes activity examples.
Active Living for Older Adults: Don't Sweat It!
The article focuses on what active living means for older adults and how it can maintain functional abilities and have fun.
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