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Researchers are now harnessing an online platform to improve wellbeing in people living with HIV. Once considered a death sentence, successfully treated HIV is now a manageable, chronic condition. Joining the nearly half of Canadian adults who have a chronic health condition, people living with HIV and their caregivers are now focusing on wellbeing and […]
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Intergenerational living is becoming increasingly popular with Canadians as a household arrangement in which people from different generations live together under the same roof. By Nathan Lundgaard and Kenneth Chau Tackling a number of current issues like housing affordability, social isolation, sustainability and even healthy aging, the concept of intergenerational living
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“Across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex,” says a United Nations policy brief. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has echoed this statement with its own, saying: “These disproportionate impacts could have long-term and far […]
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The price of alcohol use High social welfare and health care costs are associated with alcohol disorders—but what causes them? A new study, based on a Bayesian network model reviewed 16 risk factors and associated costs: age, gender, marital status, unemployment status, and social problems like homelessness, illicit drug use, criminal record, and drunk driving. […]
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With Michele and Barack Obama sharing executive producing credits, and a standing ovation performance when it opened the Sundance Film Festival, Crip Camp is the story of a summer camp that sparked the disability rights movement in the late ’70’s.  A Netflix documentary, “Crip Camp illustrates how being disabled is a political act despite society’s […]
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