UN World Health Organization Conference on Age Friendly Cities
From September 9 -11, Quebec City hosted the 2013 United Nations World Health Organization Conference on Age Friendly Cities (CAFC 2013). This international conference welcomed over 700 delegates from Canada and around the world.
Members from our project were proudly present at the CAFC 2013 conference. Project manager Celine Cooper, researcher Dr. Joanne Pocock and QUESCREN Coordinator-Researcher Dr. Lorraine O’Donnell were in attendance, as well as some of our dedicated Steering Committee members and friends at Seniors Action Quebec – Premela Pearson, Kevin Erskine-Henry, David Cassidy and Ruth Pelletier.
The CAFC conference was a chance to forge links, strengthen our networks and raise awareness about issues related to English-speaking communities in Quebec in age-friendly city initiatives.
Not only did we attend, but we had the honour of participating on a panel session entitled “Initiatives with Minority Groups” with Bibiana Graeff from the Université de São Paulo, Brazil and Majella Simard from the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick. The QCGN/QUESCREN presentation, entitled Living and Aging as a Minority Linguistic Group in Quebec: Building Research Capacity Related to Quebec's English-Speaking Seniors provided an overview of our project and some of our preliminary findings.
Members from our project were proudly present at the CAFC 2013 conference. Project manager Celine Cooper, researcher Dr. Joanne Pocock and QUESCREN Coordinator-Researcher Dr. Lorraine O’Donnell were in attendance, as well as some of our dedicated Steering Committee members and friends at Seniors Action Quebec – Premela Pearson, Kevin Erskine-Henry, David Cassidy and Ruth Pelletier.
The CAFC conference was a chance to forge links, strengthen our networks and raise awareness about issues related to English-speaking communities in Quebec in age-friendly city initiatives.
Not only did we attend, but we had the honour of participating on a panel session entitled “Initiatives with Minority Groups” with Bibiana Graeff from the Université de São Paulo, Brazil and Majella Simard from the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick. The QCGN/QUESCREN presentation, entitled Living and Aging as a Minority Linguistic Group in Quebec: Building Research Capacity Related to Quebec's English-Speaking Seniors provided an overview of our project and some of our preliminary findings.
