Please mark your calendar on Thursday, October 14th from 8:30 to 12:00 pm for a workshop on the Air Quality Health Index which will take place at Alderney Gate Public Library, 60 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth. The Air Quality Health Index or “AQHI” is a scale from 1 to 10+ that measures outdoor air pollution in [...]

Please join GANS for our monthly networking night at The Foggy Goggle, 1667 Argyle St, Halifax – 5-7pm. This month, Sandra Murphy from Community Links will give a brief  talk on  Seniors and Gambling: a hidden problem? Stop by and meet colleagues, old and new, for interesting discussion and a bit of socializing.

Please join us on June 08 at the Foggy Goggle on Argyle Street in Halifax for our monthly networking night. Click here for Networking June 2010 details Dan Robichaud, Executive Director Of Halifax Regional C@P,  will give a short talk about the Digital Divide and Seniors.   What is HRC@P? C@P is a government of Canada [...]

Please join us this Friday, May 21 for an informative Lunch and Learn about the new Palliative and Therapeutic Harmonization Clinic at Capital Health. Dr. Paige Moorhouse, who founded the clinic with Dr. Laurie Mallery, will explain the process: “There are times when a person is frail and nearing the end of life that medical treatments meant to improve [...]

The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH)  will hold a poster competition for students in the field of seniors’ mental health. Submission is open to all students who plan to attend the CCSMH 4th National Conference in Halifax. This poster competition is sponsored by the Geriatric Medicine Research Unit. Submission is open to all students [...]

The Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, and the Canadian Dementia Knowledge  Translation Network are please to present a one day workshop for health care professionals on examining the realities of family and friend caregivers. “Family and friend caregivers supporting an adult with health limitations in the community are an integral part of the Nova Scotia health system. Despite their important [...]

The Nova Scotia Centre on Aging and the  Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia are presenting several public sessions across Nova Scotia to launch a new information guide “It’s in Your Hands” to inform seniors and their families about financial abuse—and how to stay safe. Information sessions for service providers are also being held across the province. [...]

Dr. Janice Keefe, director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, will present a free public lecture on May 05, 2010 entitled Our Aging Society-Who Cares? A Nova Scotia Reality Check. The Nova Scotia Centre for Aging is located at Mount Saint Vincent university, in HRM. “For more than 15 years, the NSCA has worked in collaboration [...]

The Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia is pleased to be hosting its first ever networking evening. The cleverly titled Networking Tuesdays will be a recurring event on the second Tuesday of every month. The location we have chosen for this HRM event is the Foggy Goggle, at 1667 Argyle St. Relax and socialize with new [...]

GANS is pleased and excited to announce that our application to the Nova Scotia Department of Seniors Positive Aging Fund was successful! The GANS proposal involves development of an online forum section to this website. We aim to create an online forum that is a discussion place for Seniors in Nova Scotia, and anyone who [...]