Learning together: Lessons from our grant communities

Learning together: Lessons from our grant communities

If the goal of healthy public policy is to create improved conditions which in turn improve population and community health, then as a whole, healthy public policies must also be equitable and serve to reverse health inequities.

THE ISSUE: Healthy Public Policy

THE ISSUE: Healthy Public Policy

Rather than directly addressing health, healthy public policies make changes to living conditions that impact health—such as housing, transportation and income—in order to improve a community’s health and well-being, while often positively impacting other issues directly within local government purview.

THE ISSUE: Self-Care

THE ISSUE: Self-Care

By promoting self-care as a primary means of maintaining health and well-being, we forget that not everyone in our community has access to the time, space and sometimes money that are required to perform self-care.

THE ISSUE: Economic Equality

THE ISSUE: Economic Equality

Healthy Communities foster health by creating environments that support health. Though we often think of physical environments such as Healthy Built Environments and Healthy Natural Environments, the environments within communities that impact our health can also be social, economic, and political. 

Building an Age-Friendly region: Trail, Rossland and Montrose collaborate on a strategy

Building an Age-Friendly region: Trail, Rossland and Montrose collaborate on a strategy

Recently, the City of Rossland, in partnership with the neighbouring City of Trail and the Village of Montrose, embarked on a regional strategy to ensure that older adults can continue to be involved and active in their community into their later years. The communities recently worked together to complete their Age-Friendly Community Action Plans, ensuring the documents contained both aligned regional priorities and plans specific to each community’s needs.

Wells clears the way for older adults to stay involved in the community

Wells clears the way for older adults to stay involved in the community

“For a small community like Wells, keeping [older adults] in the community becomes even more important, because that’s a lot of our community history, it’s volunteerism, traditional knowledge, it’s the life of our local non-profits,” says Wylie Bystedt, Marketing and Community Economic Development Coordinator for Wells. The community of just over 200 put that knowledge to work in recent years, when it embarked on its Age-friendly assessment

Looking out for tomorrow: Cranbrook plans for future Age-friendly needs

Looking out for tomorrow: Cranbrook plans for future Age-friendly needs

The City of Cranbrook is taking steps to ensure that the city is ready to meet the needs of her demographic, which is projected to make up 41% of Cranbrook’s population by 2035. The city has recently released their Age-friendly Community Action Plan, a document which will help the city set priorities and lay out the next steps towards ensuring the city is safe and welcoming for older adults.