December 3, 2010

Innovating public services to meet our demographic needs

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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

ltorjman@marsdd.com

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