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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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Learn more about the vision for a senior’s intergenerational housing village
Update on the SHIH Housing Group- Spring 2025(Terrance Hunsley, Sheila Bryan, John Anderson, Grace Welch) The SHIH has been working over the past year to assemble a coalition of organizations interested in the vision of a “seniors’ intergenerational village” for nonprofit next stage housing with a community base for the organization of support services. The…
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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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