Dear Friends:

Health Canada has funded us to explore "Policy decisions made by
governments that are affecting the quality of life of Canadian seniors."
This project is taking place in Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa,
Toronto, Regina, Vancouver, and Whitehorse.

In Toronto, our participatory project has identified nine key QOL issues
that are being affected by municipal, provincial, and federal policy
decisions:
1.      Housing
2.      Acute illness and injury care supports
3.      Chronic care supports
4.      Income and benefits security
5.      Transportation
6.      Promoting healthy lifestyles
7.      Access to information
8.      Hearing seniors' voices
9.      Hearing voices from cultural communities

We have carried out a series of focus groups with informed seniors, service
providers, and state representatives.

We are at the point of needing to gather written reports that have been
prepared that address these issues.  These may be local projects that have
been published or are unpublished.  They may also be briefs or depositions
that have been presented.  They do not have to address seniors directly --
for example a report on a housing shortage would certainly be relevant as
would reports about health care, transportation, government responsiveness,
etc.

For those people who are Toronto/Ontario based please direct this
information to me at my e-mail address.

For those who are resident in these other cities, please go to:
http://www.utoronto.ca/seniors to contact the local project team in your
locality.

Your involvement and cooperation on an ongoing basis in this project is
very much appreciated.


Visit our Web Site for information about our Seniors Participatory and
Community Quality of Life Projects!  Free Reports Also.

  http://www.utoronto.ca/qol      http://www.utoronto.ca/seniors

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  Long have I looked for the truth about the life of people together.
  That life is crisscrossed, tangled, and difficult to understand.
  I have worked hard to understand it and when I had done so
  I told the truth as I found it.

  - Bertolt Brecht
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
voice:    (416) 978-7567
fax: (416) 978-2087
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