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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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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
