 Thinking Globally about Aging and Health with Dr. Norah Keating
Time and Date: 5:00PM, January 10, 2017
Venue: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-190
114 Street & 87 Ave, University of Alberta Campus
Please join us for this free public lecture with one of Canada's preeminent social gerontologists, Dr. Norah Keating; Co-Director of Research on Aging, Policies and Practice, Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta; Professor of Gerontology at Swansea University, Wales and Extraordinary Professor at North-West University in South Africa; Academic Lead for International Association on Gerontology and Geriatrics' (IAGG) Global Social Initiative on Ageing.
Dr. Keating's research and capacity building activities involve research on livability of communities for older persons in Australia, Canada, and South Africa; she is also involved in a programme of research on economic, health, and social costs of care in Canada and China.
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 Thriving in a Collaborative Atmosphere: The Health Sciences Council's Strategic Plan and Annual Report We are pleased to present the Health Sciences Council's Annual Report and five-year Strategic Plan.
The Council is making significant progress in key areas. We are particularly proud of the advances in interprofessional health sciences education. Our new and expanded activities offer University of Alberta students a wider range of exceptional experiential learning opportunities than ever before. We are engaging record numbers of students in interprofessional learning and health team development; at the same time, our curriculum has evolved to meet the changing needs of our member faculties and the health system in Alberta and across Canada.
We are building capacity for interprofessional education here at the U of A through facilitator training and elsewhere though our online Virtual Interprofessional Educator Resource.
We also welcomed new interdisciplinary teams into the Discovery Mall space in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy in 2016. These teams represent broad collaborations between disciplines and institutions, and between the University and the community. Read more online:
If you would like a hard copy of either, or both, please contact us by email:
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Up close and poor
Lesley Young, University of Alberta News
At the local pawnshop, a young mother barters some jewelry, desperate to feed the crying baby in her arms. Around the corner, a local drug dealer entices a hungry, homeless father of two to sell drugs for extra cash. Meanwhile, a woman rushes by, on her way to the police station, because she missed daycare pick-up and social services took her child away.
The desperate scenarios are all too real for the more than 350,000 Albertans living in poverty-nearly 10 per cent of the population. They were also viscerally real for the 130 University of Alberta health science students taking part in two poverty simulations Nov. 24 and 26.
The poverty simulation, now in its second year, is one component of the required HSERC course, Essentials of Collaborative Practice.
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New Bins are coming
 This changes everything! As part of Zero Waste, the university is introducing a new system of bins. These will simplify sorting and include organics as a standard bin. Every Zero Waste station has the same four containers. Here's where to put your disposables so they can be properly recycled, composted or sent to landfill. Mixed Paper - Newspapers and magazines
- Hardcover and softcover books
- Flattened boxes
- Loose paper
- Pizza boxes (remove liner)
Recyclables - Aluminum pop cans
- Plastic and glass drink bottles
- Juice boxes and milk cartons
- Plastic bags
- Plastic containers
- Non-hazardous lab plastics
- Aluminum dishes and foil
- Tin cans
- Non-hazardous lab glassware
Organics - Fruits and vegetables
- Bread, grains and flour
- Dairy and eggs
- Meat and bones
- Cooking oil
- Coffee grinds & tea bags
- Cardboard takeout containers
- Paper towels
- Napkins
- Wax paper
- Sandwich wrap
- Receipts
- Wood or bamboo chopsticks
- Small amounts of cooking oil
Landfill - #3, #6, #7 plastic (includes vinyl/PVC and polystyrene)
- Styrofoam takeout containers
- Styrofoam packing materials
- Chip bags and snack wrappers
- Take-away coffee cups
- Latex and rubber
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 ECHA's own
'Little Free Library'ECHA now has its very own Little Free Library - a community bookshelf for anyone to borrow and share books. It's located on the third floor by the south patio. Stop by and see the books available and donate a gently-used book to the collection.
Take 'em, read 'em, leave 'em. Open to everyone!
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