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Reframing Aging – Empowering Older Adults

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Reframing Aging, Empowering Older Adults: CIHR-IA’s Strategic Plan 2023-2028

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Every Canadian deserves a healthy experience of aging and care that meets them where they are. Across the country, Canada’s research on the aging community is helping to make that happen. The CIHR Institute of Aging is one of 13 institutes that makes up the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. We’re on a mission to advance training, research and knowledge to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of all Canadians as they age. Informed by many voices across our community, our Strategic Plan lays out a path to foster research that will achieve equitable health outcomes and enable healthy aging for all older Canadians. We’re focused on:

  • Implementing prevention strategies and promoting health and wellbeing in aging
  • Adapting health and care systems to better address the needs of older adults
  • And improving lived and living experiences and quality of care in the later years
Our cross-cutting priorities shape all aspects of our activities and engagement with our research on aging community. They promote equity, inclusiveness and diversity of input to strengthen the research on aging community in Canada, with the goal of leading to improved health outcomes for older Canadians. It’s time to reframe what it means to age. We are refocussing on the value of lived experiences and repositioning health care and supports to empower older adults to live vibrant, healthy lives at every stage. Visit the Institute of Aging online to learn more.

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CIHR-IA launches strategic plan to reframe aging and empower older adults

Everyone deserves a healthy experience of aging and care that meets them where they are. The CIHR Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA) has launched a five-year plan to reframe what it means to age, refocus on the value of lived and living experiences and reposition health care and supports to empower older adults to live vibrant, healthy lives at every stage.

As Canada supports demographic changes, a rapidly growing older adult population and post-pandemic recovery, research is needed now more than ever to advance our understanding of what comprises health in aging and to implement effective models of care through integrated care systems. Aligned with CIHR’s vision to achieve the best health for all, the CIHR-IA Strategic Plan 2023-2028 lays out a path to foster research that will achieve equitable health outcomes and enable healthy aging for all older Canadians.

CIHR-IA’s Strategic Plan 2023-2028 is available in French and English.

CIHR Institute of Aging Strategic Plan 2023-2028
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Our Mission and Vision

Mission

Our mission is to advance training, research and knowledge mobilization to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of all Canadians as they age.

Vision

Our vision is to foster research excellence to achieve equitable health outcomes and enable healthy aging for all older Canadians.

Older adults represent the fastest growing demographic in Canada.

  • 19% of Canadians are aged 65+ (7 million people)
  • 3x more Canadians aged 85+ by 2046 (2.5 million people)
  • 16% increase in Canadian centenarians since 2016
  • More Canadians aged 65+ than children under the age of 15

Research on aging is needed now more than ever.

Our Strategic Plan 2023-2028 is founded on:

  • 2,100+ responses from across our community
  • 3 strategic directions to address the needs of Canada's older adults
  • 6 cross-cutting priorities to promote a thriving research environment that engages all voices

Strategic Directions

  • Implement Prevention Strategies and Promote Health and Wellbeing in Aging
  • Adapt Health and Care Systems to Better Address the Needs of Older Adults
  • Improve Lived and Living Experiences and Quality of Care in the Later Years

Cross-Cutting Priorities

  • Indigenous Peoples' Health and Wellbeing and Indigenous Rights
  • Engaging with Patients and the Public
  • Partnerships and Collaboration
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Impact of Intersectionality
  • Capacity Building, Career Development and Training
  • Knowledge Translation, Mobilization and Implementation
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