In Quebec, they even represent 20.6% of the population, or 1.7 million people. An aging that the Ministry of Health wishes to be healthy, active and at home, as its policy advances Aging and living together, at home in your community.
The 2021 census even counted more than 861,000 people in Canada aged 85 or over: this is more than double the number observed in the 2001 census.
For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been developing, for 5 years, the ICOPE program – Integrated Care for Older People or “Integrated care of the elderly”: a guide for the community to detect the loss of capacities of the elderly and to assess their needs in terms of health, food and care, so that the whole community can contribute .
Aging would thus become everyone’s business, from the municipality to the post office and neighbors—rather than relying solely on the elderly person or their family.
Isabelle Burgun talks about this concept of aging well in her community with:
Healthy ageing, how should we define and understand it? How to age well?
Is aging well also something that concerns the community? Many older people want to stay at home. How to encourage it?
Moreover, being active, hasn’t research shown in recent years that it protects against aging?
Painter Armand Vaillancourt, 96, is always alert and full of projects, but not all seniors are alike. 65 and 85 are not the same reality either, are they?
There is a program in Lyon called Activie, walk meet, developed with the help of technology and territorial partners. What is it about?
What are the elements of “successful aging”?
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I vote for science airs Mondays at 1 p.m. on the five regional stations of Radio VM. It is moderated by Isabelle Burgun. Search for this show: Isabelle Burgun. You can also listen to us, among others, on CIBO (Senneterre), CFOU (Trois-Rivières), and CHOM (Toronto).
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