Lessons learned from a Canadian province-wide age-friendly initiative: the Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative.

The Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative was launched in 2008. A formative evaluation we conducted in 2011 with 44 participating rural and urban communities demonstrates considerable progress, with virtually all communities having formed an Age-Friendly Committee and conducting a community assessment to identify priorities for action. The majority of communities implemented one or more age-friendly projects.

Hospitalizations at the end of life among long-term care residents.

Background: Concerns have been raised over transfers into acute care hospitals at the end of life. The objective of this study was to examine (a) the extent of and (b) factors related to hospitalization in the last 180 days before death among long-term care (LTC) residents.

Methods: The study included all LTC residents from 60 facilities in the province of Manitoba, Canada, who died in 2003/04 (N = 2,379), with data derived from administrative health care records.