{"id":426,"date":"2025-10-15T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/?post_type=initiative&#038;p=426"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:18:56","slug":"national-seniors-strategy","status":"publish","type":"initiative","link":"https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/initiatives\/national-seniors-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"National Seniors Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-group page-title is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5324d913eb2c415a872a0b4fff389b0f\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\">Our work \/ signature initiatives<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eb9b34da77f05ced1cac5dfe0b98093b\">National Seniors Strategy<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"yoast-breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/\">Home<\/a><\/span> \/ <span class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\">National Seniors Strategy<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:37rem\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\" style=\"border-radius:22px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-1350x759.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/National-Seniors-Strategy-Header-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group narrow-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-41d14ae5 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Meeting the growing and evolving needs of Canada\u2019s ageing population will require concerted coordination and effort between municipal, provincial and territorial governments. In 2015, the NIA worked in close collaboration with partners across the country to develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/reports\/national-seniors-strategy-2020-report\/\">National Seniors Strategy<\/a> that outlines key steps for all levels of government to address the critical issues impacting older adults in Canada. The strategy was then refreshed in 2020, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NIA and partners continue to advocate for a comprehensive federal strategy grounded in the key focus areas below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull accordion-section has-light-grey-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-41d14ae5 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading featured-heading\">National Seniors Strategy Key Areas of Focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-tribe-blocks-accordion-container accordion\" id=\"block-c8ea2463-af24-493b-aaa7-bccc768c42a9\" data-multi-expand=\"false\" data-allow-all-closed=\"false\"><button class=\"accordion-header\" type=\"button\">Independent, Productive &amp; Engaged Citizens<\/button>\n<div class=\"accordion-content\">\n    \n\n<p>Enables older Canadians to remain independent, productive and engaged members of our communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make addressing ageism, elder abuse, and social isolation a national priority<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure older Canadians do not live in poverty by improving their income security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure older Canadians have access to affordable housing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure older Canadians have access to inclusive transportation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable the creation of age-friendly communities, physical environments and spaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<button class=\"accordion-header\" type=\"button\">Healthy and Active Lives<\/button>\n<div class=\"accordion-content\">\n    \n\n<p>Ensures Canadians can lead healthy and active lives for as long as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure Canadians are supported to engage in wellness and prevention activities that enable healthy ageing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improve access to medically necessary and appropriate medications and vaccines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure older Canadians and their caregivers are enabled to participate in informed health decision-making &amp; advance care planning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<button class=\"accordion-header\" type=\"button\">Care Closer to Home<\/button>\n<div class=\"accordion-content\">\n    \n\n<p>Ensures older Canadians have access to person-centred, high-quality, and integrated care as close to home as possible, provided by providers with the knowledge and skills to care for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure older Canadians have access to appropriate, high quality long-term care, palliative and end-of-life services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure that older Canadians have access to care providers that are trained to specifically provide the care they need<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop standardized metrics and accountability standards to enable a national seniors strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring the needs of older adults are recognized and supported in emergency and disaster preparedness planning, response, and recovery efforts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<button class=\"accordion-header\" type=\"button\">Support for Caregivers<\/button>\n<div class=\"accordion-content\">\n    \n\n<p>Providing support and recognition to meet the needs of current and future caregivers will not only keep Canada\u2019s health and long-term care systems more sustainable, but it will also ensure that our national economic productivity can be improved and strengthened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensuring that the family and friends of older Canadians who provide unpaid care for their loved ones are acknowledged and supported.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This can be achieved by ensuring unpaid caregivers and older adults are supported in the workplace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring unpaid caregivers are not unnecessarily penalized financially for taking on caregiving roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull posts-section has-light-grey-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0244a77779f3bbc04258c2a0816e8c74\">You might also be interested in\u2026<\/h4>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_fea36369036e8006e9e07074d1f3e959\" class=\"align wp-block-acf-selected-posts\">        <div class=\"latest-posts__posts\">\n                    <div class=\"latest-posts__post card section_title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/qa.yourwebsitebuild.com\/nia\/resources-reports\/\">\n                    <div class=\"category\">Our Work<\/div>\n                    <h5 class=\"title\">Resources &amp; 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