NCCDH Webinar: Public Policy for Equity and Healthy Aging (2022) - Peggy Edwards (2 of 5)

Webinar: Public Policy for Equity and Healthy Aging (2022)
Date: January 20, 2022

This webinar is part of a series co-developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) based on content from the book entitled Promoting the health of older adults: The Canadian experience (PHOA).

This first webinar in the series will explore the opportunities and challenges to building healthy public policies that promote health equity for older Canadians.

Related resources: https://nccdh.ca/workshops-events/entry/public-policy-for-equity-and-healthy-aging

Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFvgvG0dOW27sItQ4bpNh--YCx6-lN-Ga
Speakers:
• Dianne Oickle, Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH (https://nccdh.ca/)
• Irving Rootman, Health Promotion Canada (https://www.healthpromotioncanada.ca/), contributor and co-editor, PHOA
• Peggy Edwards, policy analyst and writer on healthy aging, contributor and co-editor, PHOA
• Sherri Torjman, policy analyst and associate with Maytree (https://maytree.com/), contributor PHOA
• Jim Hamilton, policy analyst with governments and organizations, contributor PHOA
PART 1: Introduction
PART 2: Healthy Public Policy (Peggy Edwards)
PART 3: Navigating between a rock and a hard place: Challenges and frameworks for action (Jim Hamilton)
PART 4: Healthy Public Policy and Older Adults (Sherri Torjman)
PART 5: Discussion (All)
Agenda:
PART 1: Introduction
• Host
• Land acknowledgement
• Speakers
• Webinar objectives

PART 2: Healthy Public Policy (Peggy Edwards)
• Where you stand depends on where you sit.
• The determinants of active aging
• Words and images matter
• A rights-based approach
• Some key policy issues with an aging population
• Equity, diversity and intersectionality
• High tech vs high touch

PART 3: Navigating between a rock and a hard place: Challenges and frameworks for action (Jim Hamilton)
• Navigating rock one: Embracing a new vision for health and aging
• Navigating three hard places: Our federated (and very big) country
• Navigating one final rock: A national framework

PART 4: Healthy Public Policy and Older Adults (Sherri Torjman)
• Policy challenges
• The narrative
• The options
• The design
• Future directions
• We need each other

PART 5: Discussion (All)
Questions from audience:
• How do we bring the voice of older adults into the policy process in a more prominent way?
• When people are living in congregate housing settings experiencing loneliness?
• Is the notion of accelerated aging due to a lifetime exposure to health and social inequities on the public health radar?
• There are many cultures where older people live with extended families rather than living in institutions, and where communities are created by bringing younger people and even children into the centres for daytime care or full-time living. Is that something we should be looking at?
• Freedom to do what you want is really empowering. Why do we limit our older people who are in care?
For more information, contact us at nccdh@stfx.ca.

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