Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

This proposal seeks funding to hold a full-day pre-conference workshop on the Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health of the World Health Organization at the 46th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology on October 19, 2017 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This workshop will bring together researchers, knowledge-users and other stakeholders-including older adults-to raise awareness of the Strategy, facilitate discussion about how "healthy ageing" can be better measured and monitored in Canada, and make recommendations for next steps for research, practice and policy. The resulting report will be disseminated widely, in particularly to key national and provincial policy- and decision-makers. Partners committed to this event include the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, AGE-WELL, the Canadian Geriatrics Society, the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association, and numerous organizations that serve older adults. It aligns with the CIHR Institute of Aging strategic research priorities of adding life to the later years and ensuring the conditions for a positive impact on older people's health and wellness.