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2025 in Review and Preview of 2026
The Seniors Health Innovations Hub (SHIH) is a group of volunteer seniors in central Ottawa who are committed to enhancing support for aging in place. Collaborating with service providers, experts, academia, government and community organizations, the SHIH is a catalyst for community innovations in the areas of housing, primary care, home care and community support,…
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Important Research Call, Primary Care and Housing Update.
Greetings from the Seniors Health Innovations Hub In our last communication, we updated readers about housing, primary care and technology. While we have some news to share about those teams, both good and not so good, our main motivation in sending out this email is to support the work of Alixe Ménard who we were fortunate…
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Village Canada, Primary Care and Technology Updates
Greetings from the Seniors Health Innovations Hub Housing Team Update – Village Canada – We need your help! Over the summer the Village Canada Consortium (VC) met with Yasir Naqvi, the MP representing Confederation Heights, and were very encouraged by his support for our vision of a non-profit, dynamic, inclusive, intergenerational seniors’ village on surplus federal land in…
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Summer Solstice Update
Welcome new readers! As a result of the tremendous community response to our Forum “Primary Care for Older Adults: An Urgent Need”, there are a couple of hundred new readers signed up to learn about how the Seniors Health Innovations Hub (SHIH) is “engaging aging in central Ottawa”. As a refresher for many and to…
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Post-Forum Update
Thank you to those of you who joined us last evening to learn about the crisis in primary health care for older adults, related advocacy approaches and strategies to support healthy aging. We were pleased with your interest: we had 121 in person and 176 online.We would appreciate it if you would take a couple…
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2025 Spring Update
Hello and Happy Spring! In this time of tariffs, taxes and promises, we’d like to bring you a few messages that may have a more direct impact on your lives. This is what the SHIH has been doing since January 2025. Primary Care Team A Forum on Finding Solutions for Primary Care for Older Adults:…
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