Examining an occupational perspective in a rural Canadian age-friendly consultation process.

Background/aim: The age-friendly community movement is a community-level approach to promoting seniors' health that has yet to be thoroughly examined from an occupational perspective. Through the application of the Canadian Practice Process Framework to an age-friendly consultation process, the authors examined how age-friendly community consultations may provide strategies for occupational therapists to strengthen their work with communities.

Methods: A consultation with a rural Canadian community was guided by the Age-Friendly Rural/Remote Communities Initiative.

Three policy issues in deciding the cost of nursing home care: provincial differences and how they influence elderly couples' experiences.

Nursing home care is subsidized in all Canadian provinces, but residents must personally contribute to the cost. This paper explores policy issues that have led to differences in costs of nursing home care among provinces, and how policy and cost differences influence the experiences of married couples when one spouse requires nursing home care. The paper is based on a multiple-case study of three Canadian provinces, each of which had a different system for determining personal contributions to the cost of care.