Enabling Aging in Place
This collaborative supports organizations to implement practices that enable older adults with health and social needs to age where they call home, with formal support.
Evidence shows that one in 10 people who enter long-term care potentially could have been cared for at home with formal support. However, lack of information and navigation support, limited mobility and transportation, geographic disparities and other barriers make it difficult for many older adults to be supported to age in place. Encouragingly, many aging in place programs across Canada are successfully helping older adults stay at home safely, with better health and quality of life.
Enabling Aging in Place brings together health and social service organizations from across the healthcare continuum to implement promising practices that are delaying entry to long-term care. The collaborative aims to improve safety, health and quality of life outcomes, while also reducing emergency department visits, lessening demands on care partners and making better use of health and social care resources.
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Enabling Aging in Place
This collaborative supports the implementation of promising practices that enable older adults to age at home, in the community, with formal support.
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Enabling Aging in Place
This collaborative supports the implementation of promising practices that enable older adults to age at home, in the community, with formal support.
How the collaborative works
The collaborative will be delivered in two phases. Phase 1 teams receive support to create an implementation and evaluation plan. This helps them develop a sustainable aging in place program that builds on the strengths of individual communities and responds to the local needs of older adults and their care partners.
Who’s participating
HEC has invited 26 teams from communities across the country to participate in this collaborative. Learn more about the teams and where they’re located.
Phase 2
Qualifying teams from phase 1 will be supported to implement, spread or expand a promising practice based on their implementation and evaluation plan.
Phase 1 teams who demonstrate readiness to implement their program and successfully complete their implementation and evaluation plans will receive an invitation to participate in phase 2 of the collaborative where they will be eligible to receive:
- Up to $25,000 in seed funding
- Virtual and in-person networking, coaching and learning events to promote sharing and collaborations across Canada
- Access to evidence, resources and other capability building supports
- Measurement and evaluation support
- Opportunities to guide the development of new resources to support aging in place programs as well as community-specific needs
Phase 2 will run from June 2024 to September 2025.
If you have questions about the Enabling Aging in Place collaborative, please contact EAIP-FVCS@hec-esc.ca
