Category: News

  • Primary Care, Studies, and Village Canada

    Primary Care, Studies, and Village Canada

    Greetings! We are gratified by the attention our email updates have received from our readers. Aging-in-place is a challenge faced by many of us and, with that in mind, we have added “The SHIH also shares information relative to aging in place with our network of engaged older adults” to our mission statement. In this email…

  • 2025 in Review and Preview of 2026

    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,…

  • Important Research Call, Primary Care and Housing Update.

    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…

  • Village Canada, Primary Care and Technology Updates

    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…

  • Summer Solstice Update

    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…

  • Post-Forum Update

    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…