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CARPe Diem - Affordable Housing
Carmen Ruiz y Laza hosts a new talk show for Canadians as we age featuring hot topics in the news and the best experts in their fields with useful tips for healthy living.
In this edition of CARPe diem, some Canadian centres like Vancouver are having a housing affordability crisis. For pensioners, the cost of living might kick them out of retirement.
Sarah Canham: Gerontology
1-minute video identifying housing insecurity as a problem for older adults and the need to give persons in marginalized positions a voice.
The Pandemic Presents The Chance To End Homelessness In Canada For Good
HuffPost Canada, June 24, 2020Online
URL: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ending-homelessness-canada-covid19_ca_5ef388a3c5b615e5cd380bac
This story is part of After The Curve, an ongoing HuffPost Canada series that makes sense of how the COVID-19 crisis could change our country in the months and years ahead, and what opportunities exist to make Canada better.
Canada’s public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic has been clear and consistent: stay home, stay safe.
But Canadians experiencing homelessness don’t have that option, whether they’re camped out in streets or parks, or packed into crowded shelter spaces. At least 35,000 people experience homelessness every night in Canada. The pandemic has thrown that number into sharp relief, as the disease has threatened a population already at higher risk of mental and physical health complications.
Expert keeping close eye on homeless count, cites concerns for older people on the streets
City News 1130, March 13, 2019Online
URL: https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/13/homeless-count-older-people/
The aging face of homelessness in North American cities.
The Conversation, April 9, 2019Online
URL: https://theconversation.com/the-aging-face-of-homelessness-in-north-american-cities-111702
Biography
Dr. Sarah Canham is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the College of Social Work and the College of Architecture and Planning in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning. She is also the Associate Director of the University’s Health Interprofessional Education program.
Canham completed her doctorate in Gerontology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and postdoctoral training, first in the Department of Mental Health at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and later in the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. She remains an adjunct professor in the Department of Gerontology at SFU and, most recently, was inducted as a Fellow into the Gerontological Society of America.
Canham’s community-based research engages with a broad network of providers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to examine homelessness, housing security, health and social service delivery, and aging. Using a social justice lens, her work seeks solutions to systemic barriers to aging well in various environments.