On February 5, 2025, we hosted Designing the Future: Scaling Innovative Housing Options for Older Adults.

This virtual event brought together close to 350 diverse changemakers from across Canada to explore innovative housing models for older adults and to identify actionable strategies needed to spread and scale these models across Canada.

In the audience were attendees from the non-profit, healthcare, housing, real estate, development, community, social services, government, charitable, private/for-profit, and financial sectors.

We invite you to watch the recording, meet our panelists, and explore the insightful resources shared during the event.
 

 

Speaker Highlights

• Opening Remarks: 
  • Dr. Tazim Virani - Senior Vice President Social Impact & Global Initiatives, SE Health
• Panel 1: Unique Living Models for Older Adults
  • Dr. Louisa-May Khoo - Urban Planner, City of Maple Ridge
  • Dr. Margaret Critchlow - Community Building Facilitator, Cohousing Development Consulting
  • Dawn Harsch - Founder and President, ExquisiCare
• Panel 2: Enablers to Spread and Scale
  • The Honourable Jason Kenney - Former federal Cabinet Minister and Alberta Premier
  • Andrea Nemtin - CEO, Social Innovation Canada
  • Dr. Cathy Bruce - President and Vice Chancellor, Trent University
  • Stephanie Allen - Principal, Adinkra Strategies

Watch the Event Recording

 

 

Resources Shared by Speakers

• Housing at SE Health
• SE Health’s First Nations, Inuit and Métis Program
• Building with Mission
• COURAGE: Action for Better Aging
• The Time for Small Care Homes is Now
• About ExquisiCare
• There’s No Place Like Home: Why Canada Must Prioritize Small Care Home Models in its Provision of Long-Term Care (NIA Report)
• The Future Age Podcast -Small Care Homes: Reimagining Long-Term Care
• Alberta Urged to Move Ahead with Publicly Funded Small Care Homes (CBC)
• The Future Age Podcast - Designing Longevity Communities
• Governing Ageing, Forging Heart-ware: A Singapore Perspective
• Towards Ageing Well: Planning a Future-Ready Singapore
• Community Care Apartments in Singapore
• Harbourside Cohousing
• Community Led Housing: A Cohousing Development Approach (Book)
• Canadian Cohousing Network
• About Social Innovation Canada
• About Trent University-Integrated Seniors Village
• OLTCA Podcast – Reimagining How We Create Seniors’ Communities
• University-Integrated Seniors Village State of Knowledge Report
• About Trent Centre for Aging and Society
• About Adinkra Strategies
• Renovate the Public Hearing
• Canada’s First Residents Assembly
• Housing, Health and Aging: The Role Health Care Organizations Can Play (Building with Mission Report)
• The Future Age Podcast (All Episodes)

Other Resources Shared During the Event

• About Pinecrest Housing
• About St. Clair O’Connor Community
• ISO Ageing Societies ISO 25553 - Smart Multigenerational Neighbourhoods
• About Hey Neighbour Collective
• About NORC Innovation Centre
• About Happy Cities
• The Green House Project
• About Options Open
• Program All Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) - Publication
• About Tapestry Community Capital and Community Bonds

 

Let’s work together!

If you’d like to connect or join our mailing list, please email FutureofAging@sehc.com.