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SHIH featured in Ottawa Citizen Article
On February 24, the Ottawa Citizen’s award winning health journalist, Elizabeth Payne, wrote a compelling article outlining the need for seniors primary care as articulated by the SHIH. Read more here
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2024 in Review
Best of the Season from the Seniors Health Innovations Hub (SHIH) Year in Review 2024 was a busy year for the Seniors Health Innovations Hub (SHIH). Our teams focused on innovative solutions to improve the lives of older adults in central Ottawa: In June, Margaret Tansey, a retired healthcare executive and professor at the University…
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You Can Show Support for Clinic Proposal
The SHIH, in partnership with Perley Health and the Centretown Community Health Centre, is seeking to establish nurse practitioners to serve central Ottawa seniors. You can help. Simply copy or adapt the letter template below and email it to Ontario’s Minister of Health at sylvia.jones@ontario.ca . Please copy Jane Philpott, head of the Primary Care…
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Community Feedback Questionnaire Report
The SHIH, with help from a New Horizons Grant, launched the Community Feedback Questionnaire (CFQ) to accomplish two main goals. First, to hear from central Ottawa’s older residents about how support services, housing arrangements, and technological advancements could enhance their quality of life. Second, to let the community know what the SHIH was doing and…
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The Seniors Health Innovations Hub (SHIH)
Senior (and younger) volunteers from several central Ottawa communities have been working over the past five years to develop age-friendly communities. Emerging from the collective learning and a broad base of activities is a focus on the determinants of health and the evolving crisis in health care. As the baby boom generation approaches the age…
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