[Webinar Recording] Unpaid family/friend caregiving: Strategies for Mobilizing an Equitable Health Promotion Approach

LINKS SHARED DURING THE WEBINAR

The Care Economy

Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence

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In September, 2022, CORE Canada launched a series of 90-minute sessions focused on Mobilizing to Promote Health and Well-Being for Older Adults. This health promotion series builds on the recent webinars offered by The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) that explored public health action on health equity for an aging population and was based on content from the book “Promoting the Health of Older Canadians – The Canadian Experience”. The current series picks up on the webinar and book topics in an effort to mobilize action on various issues by focusing on effective models and the policies, practices, partnerships, and networks that support them. Through interviews and discussions with practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers, each session explores a topic and the key issues and challenges related to it, and examines some strategies and programs that have been successful in addressing the problems. In addition to Q&A, participants have the opportunity to more deeply probe and engage in the topic by accessing related resources and tools.

In 2022, approximately one in five Canadians provided unpaid care to an adult with a long-term condition or disability. With population aging, it is anticipated that an increasing number of Canadians will be involved in caring for aging family members or friends in the coming years. While caregiving can be a rewarding experience, it can also have costs for unpaid caregivers (e.g., negative impacts on physical and mental health, financial costs, social costs). This webinar focuses on strategies for mobilizing an equitable health promotion approach in order to support the wellbeing of unpaid family and friend caregivers. The webinar will begin with an overview by Dr. Laura Funk of the caregiving context within Canada and upstream approaches to supporting the health and wellbeing of unpaid family and friend caregivers. The webinar will also include presentations on strategies for supporting caregiving within rural contexts (Dr. Katie Aubrecht), emergency contexts such as extreme weather events (Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch) and supporting caregivers with grief and loss (Zelda Freitas).