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Promoting Social Connections

Social connections are vital to older people to maintain good health. The Ministry of Health promotes social connections and works to overcome social isolation by working with other jurisdictions in Canada and the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors.

  • Working Together for Seniors (PDF 2 MB)
    Working Together for Seniors is a toolkit for any organization that designs policy or programs for seniors. It has been created to help promote social integration. The Federal/Provincial/Territorial (F/P/T) Ministers Responsible for Seniors recognize that social isolation is a significant risk for seniors with serious consequences. Through research and consultations, the F/P/T Working Group on Social Isolation learned more about social isolation and how to promote social inclusion, and this work informed development of this toolkit. The toolkit is designed to assist organizations and governments to screen existing and planned programs and practices for their impact on social isolation. It provides information and data about social isolation amongst seniors, suggests ways that organizations can promote social inclusion, and provides a tool that can be used to screen existing and planned programs and services, for their impact (positive or negative) on social isolation.

The Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors have undertaken research to better understand social isolation. The following documents have been developed:

 

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