NIA Celebrates National Seniors Day 2024
On October 1st, as we celebrate National Seniors Day and the International Day of Older Persons, we honour the invaluable contributions of older adults who have shaped our communities. At the same time, National Seniors Day is also a time to recognize the significant challenges many older adults face.
To meet these growing challenges, the NIA adopted a new strategic plan in 2024 with a bold vision: a Canada where older adults feel valued, included, supported, and better prepared to age with confidence.
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NIA Visits British Columbia to Strengthen Collaborative Efforts to Support Ageing Populations
The community-based seniors' sector plays a crucial role in improving the quality of life for older adults across British Columbia. In August 2024, the NIA and United Way BC connected with partners from Nanaimo to Victoria to meet and learn from organizations that provide critical programs and services to older adults.
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NIA Makes 2025 Pre-Budget Submission to Standing Committee on Finance
The federal government must take these trends into consideration when developing the budgetary priorities for 2025. In our recent submission to the Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) pre-budget consultations, we urged federal policymakers to tackle key issues affecting older adults in Canada through five key recommendations
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2024 Federal Budget Roundup: Initiatives to Support Older Adults
On April 16, the Government of Canada tabled its 2024-2025 budget. Under the theme of “fairness for every generation,” Budget 2024 promises, “a fair chance to build a good middle class life—to do as well as your parents, or better—that’s the promise of Canada. For too many, especially for younger Canadians, that promise is at risk.”
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Insights from an Outstanding Octogenarian: A Conversation with Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
This month Madame Clarkson celebrated her 85th birthday. We were delighted to have a conversation with the Honourary Chair of the National Institute on Ageing’s Advisory Board and discuss what this particular milestone means to her.
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Helping Older Adults Feel Less Isolated and Lonely this Holiday Season
The holidays can bring up a range of emotions for many of us and especially older persons during the holiday season. Whether it is reminiscing about a partner, relative or friend who passed, or being away from children or loved ones, the holidays can increase feelings of loneliness especially among older adults.
Earlier this month, the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) launched a new report to better understand the factors driving the growing epidemic of social isolation and loneliness among older Canadians. The NIA shares five ways to increase social interaction and make older adults you know feel more appreciated and included this holiday season and beyond.
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$334 Billion – The Devil in the Actuarial Details
The Alberta government has released a consultant’s report that includes a $334 billion estimate of the asset transfer from the CPP fund to a new fund to be established for a standalone Alberta pension plan.
There are three distinct issues with this number. First, the provisions in the CPP Act concerning the asset transfer are not particularly clear. Second, the number is calculated using data by province of residence whereas CPP operates on the province of employment. Last but not least, the transfer represents 53% of the CPP fund and that seems too big when Alberta represents only 16% of CPP contributions.
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Income level impacts retiree health
There is reason to be concerned that having unstable, uncertain or low income in later life could be detrimental, says Dr. Madison Brydges, a health policy researcher at the National Institute on Ageing and lead author of its Healthy Outcomes report.
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Q&A: The Alberta election and the prospects of a provincial pension plan
NIA Associate Fellow Doug Chandler shares insights on a proposal to withdraw Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan
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Why climate change is an ageing issue
A Q&A with Dr. Samantha Green, President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, about the risks our warming world poses to older adults
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From expanded dental care coverage to improved retirement security: What the federal and provincial budgets promised older Canadians
Several of the measures outlined in the federal and provincial documents for 2023 reflected recommendations from the NIA and its National Seniors Strategy.
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Why foster intergenerational triads?
Forming intergenerational groupings of co-workers at different career stages can foster stronger knowledge translation and break down ageism in the workplace.
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Improving Alberta’s Private-Sector Pension Legislation
The Alberta government is updating its private-sector pension legislation and policy. In response to its call for feedback, the National Institute on Ageing shared recommendations based on the National Seniors Strategy and recent research on dynamic pension pools.
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‘You can't have a fair society without having everybody feel they can belong’
Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson is the new Honorary Chair of the National Institute on Ageing’s Advisory Board. We spoke to her about why this new role is important to her.
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Q&A: The Quebec Election and Long-Term Care
With Quebec heading to the polls on Oct. 3, the NIA’s Dr. Samir Sinha shares his top takeaways from the provincial parties’ election promises
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A closer look at our decision to pause the LTC COVID-19 Tracker
Last week, the National Institute on Ageing announced that we had made the difficult decision to pause our innovative NIA Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker Project, even though Canada and its long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes are now in their seventh wave of the pandemic.
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OAS pension payments have permanently risen for the first time since 1973. Here’s why retirees should defer them
Old Age Security payments have increased by 10 per cent for Canadians aged 75 and older. Retiring Canadians can maximize this boost by delaying uptake of their OAS benefits.
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‘So much of the trauma that our communities have endured, the common thread is nobody cared how they felt’
A Q&A with Joanne Dallaire, Elder and Senior Advisor, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Toronto Metropolitan University
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