the series on aging: participant's action diary
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This booklet is an accompaniment to The Series on Aging session, Part 1: SOCIAL INNOVATORS (held December 3, 2010) on the topics of innovating public services to meet our demographic needs. This is a booklet. Not just any booklet. It’s a source of inspiration, a space for reflection and a reminder of the important takeaways from today. This is your Action Diary.TRANSCRIPT
December 3, 2010
Innovating public services to meet our demographic needs
Presented by:
TheSerieson AgingPart 1: SOCIAL INNOVATORS
TheSerieson AgingPart 1: SOCIAL INNOVATORS
Innovating public services to meet our demographic needs
This is today’s mission.
What’s yours?
December 3, 2010
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This is a booklet. Not just any booklet. It’s a source of inspiration, a space for reflection and a reminder of the important takeaways from today.
This is your Action Diary.
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Have you read?...!"#$%&"#'($)*+'',$-."/$+0"#12These links are inspiring...
On the quality of later life http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/there-are-a-lot-better-places-to-die-than-canada/article1647604/
On good relationships and healthhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/good-relationships-have-direct-health-benefits-study/article1653700/
Atkinson Series on the BOOMER TSUNAMIhttp://www.thestar.com/topic/Atkinson2008
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aginghttp://www.clsa-elcv.ca/
On entrepreneurs in their 50s and 60shttp://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/public_services_lab/ageing/age_unlim-ited/assets/features/third_age_entrepreneurs
Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technologyhttps://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1559
Write up from University of Toronto’s Aging at Home e-symposiumhttp://is.gd/i4anV
On Brain Fitnesshttp://www.baycrest.org/Brainfitness/default.asphttp://www.sharpbrains.com/
The care-ring voice networkhttp://www.careringvoice.com/
Changing Age Program – A University devotes a year to the Aging Agendahttp://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/changingage/
Third Age Trust – University consortium for Lifelong learninghttp://www.u3a.org.uk/about-u3a.html
LaterLife Conference http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/event/overview.asp?ID=123
more links throughout the booklet
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In conversation with…Quick fire interviews between the CEO of a foundation, a journalist and a Professor Emeritas.
What do you think funders need to do to help the sector become more innovative?
L.Robin Cardozo has served as CEO of the Ontario
Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, since
1999. The Foundation is a catalyst that enables Ontarians to work
together to enhance the quality of life in their communities.
http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/
“Funding our Future:” The upcoming
challenges for funders and Trillium’s
future plans to support the sector.
“Canada’s aging population presents
a huge opportunity for strengthening
communities – an opportunity that is
only just starting to be realized.”
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Innovation watch! Seniors’ Tax Credit…coming to a community near you.
Judy Steed is an award winning journalist, author and activist
focused on healthy aging. She was awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in
Public Policy for BOOMER TSUNAMI, her groundbreaking study on aging
and the new brain research. She asked questions such as, Where are the
best places in the world to grow old, and why?
www.soulsparetreats.ca
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Time for Action: changing our
behaviour to prevent epidemics like
diabetes and dementia.
“People are eager to enhance the
aging process and to prevent many
of the chronic conditions that
plague us”
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I’m interested in looking further into:The Veterans Independence Program (VIP) program The Aging At Home pilot project in Deep River
Your example here:
Gerda Kaegi is Professor Emerita at Ryerson University
and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Politics and Public
Administration. She also coordinates the Program in Nonprofit and
Voluntary Sector Management at The Raymond Chang School of
Continuing Education at Ryerson University.
A Multitude of Sins: Scale, sustainability
and systems-approach (or lack thereof)
in Canada
“Around the world, programs for the
elderly that are working are those that
involve the elderly in the planning.
Engagement from the start.”
http://is.gd/i4b1Q
http://www.magma.ca/~drcanrt/100901athome.html
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If you were being interviewed…what would you say? Remember, this is quick-fire.
Make it actionable… 1.2.3.
Who did you meet today that you must connect with?
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Another social innovation in my own backyard is -
Vickie Cammack is a co-founder of Planned Lifetime
Advocacy Network (PLAN) a pioneer social enterprise supporting
families plan for the safety and well being of their family member with
a disability. She created PLAN’s Personal Network program, a unique
response to the isolation and loneliness experienced by people with
disabilities. www.planinstitute.ca
Vickie is also the CEO of Tyze…Tyze is much more than a way to make appointments and track tasks. It’s
a place to celebrate the contributions and achievements of the person at
the centre of the network – and a way they can stay connected to friends
and loved ones. http://home.tyze.com/home
Keynote Presentation: World-renowned
Canadian Social Innovator, Vickie Cammack
* Also an announcement about
The Belonging Fund
“A great thinker about aging is James Hillman.
His recent publication ‘The Force of Character:
And the Lasting Life’ reminds us that it is not our
hips that need replacing but our attitudes
about old age.”
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International Context UK is ranked the #1 place in the world to die. Based on the “Quality of Death Index,” which looks at hospice and palliative care, Canada ranks 9th.
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AgeUK: Collaborating for greater impact
Age Concern and Help the Aged were two
organizations serving senior citizens in the UK. They
merged for greater impact, combining 120 years of
shared history of working with and for older people.
Together, they are able to help over five million
people annually as AgeUK.
AgeUK is an organization that aims to improve later life for everyone through our
information, advice, campaigns, products, training and research. They believe that age
needs respect. It needs kindness. Sometimes it needs help. AgeUK has a vision of a
world in which older people flourish. www.ageuk.org.uk/
Participle: Innovating service design
Participle works toward creating a system based on
capabilities rather than needs. They encourage openly inclusive
services by designing services WITH, not for people.
Southwark Circle is a program that Participle launched around
the aging agenda to address community engagement.
Rather than start with the question ‘what can public services do to improve quality of
life and well-being for older people?’ Participle decided to ask another question - ‘how
can a locality mobilize public, private, voluntary and community resources to help all
older people define and create quality of life and well-being for themselves?’
Working with over 250 older people and family members to generated insights into
their hopes, fears, needs and aspirations, Participle developed Southwark Circle, a
membership organization that helps people take care of household tasks, forge social
connections and find new directions in life.
Southwark Circle is a model of how future services might look across Britain.
Participle: http://www.participle.net/
Southwark Circle http://www.southwarkcircle.org.uk/
Case Studies
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NESTA: Re-framing an issue - An aging society
will - and should - challenge everything
NESTA Lab launched Age Unlimited, a program to explore ways of generating
innovative new services that help extend work and social participation for people in
their fifties and sixties in order to help them age better. http://is.gd/i4ezN
A call for ideas has been launched. And the associated materials for Age Unlimited are
the following:
Preparing for Ageing report http://is.gd/i4e71
This report describes the challenge of an ageing society, assesses the
role that innovation is currently playing in meeting this challenge, and
identifies where innovation needs to be harnessed more fully. It covers
the public, private and voluntary sectors, across five areas: housing; the
local environment; health and social care; personal finance; and social
inclusion.
The New Old Age http://is.gd/i4dZy
Perspectives on innovating our way to the good life for all. A collection
of essays that form part of the first Lab ‘Accounts’ and complement the
Research Summary – ‘Preparing for Ageing’.
Voices of older people (video)
An introduction to what older people feel about the ageing process and
their attitudes to retirement in the UK. This film supports the work of The
Lab from NESTA as part of the Age Unlimited work.
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Who’s behind today’s event?
MaRS Discovery District (www.marsdd.com) is a convergence
innovation centre located in the heart of Toronto.
MaRS is dedicated to building Canada’s next generation of
companies to maximize the economic and social impact of
Canadian innovation.
MaRS works closely with entrepreneurs to grow and scale their
ventures into global market leaders.
Contact:
General inquiries
(416) 673-8100
SiG@MaRS supports the launch and growth of social ventures
through Advisory Services.
We convene unusual stakeholders and bring global leaders to
Ontario to share and explore best practices
We accelerate social innovation through research, education and
enabling infrastructure such as social finance and social tech
Contact:
Lisa Torjman
Manager, Social Innovation Projects
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