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The Aging in the Right Place Partnership 

Canada鈥檚 population of older adults experiencing homelessness is increasing. However, this growing population is largely invisible in research. Though there are many different programs in place across the country to support older adults experiencing homelessness, there is no clear 鈥渙ne-size-fits-all鈥� solution.

The Aging in the Right Place (AIRP) Partnership aims to address this silence. The AIRP Partnership is a five-year, three-city project to evaluate innovative solutions to supporting older adults who are experiencing homelessness and housing precarity or who are homeless-experienced.

Through a partnered, community-based approach, researchers in Calgary, Montreal, and Vancouver work with housing providers, stakeholders, and persons with lived expertise to measure it works. The AIRP Partnership鈥檚 goals are:

  1. to build capacity and knowledge to bridge the gaps between research and practice; and,

  2. to promote policies that are proven to support aging in the right place for older people.

     

What Exactly is 鈥淎ging in the Right Place鈥�?

The majority of Canadians want to grow old in their own homes, or 鈥渁ge in place鈥�. But this is more challenging for homeless, housing precarious, and homeless-experienced older adults whose living environments may not be able to safely support them as they age. The AIRP Partnership adopts 鈥渁ging in the right place鈥� as its theoretical framework, which considers how older adults can live as long as possible in their homes while recognizing that an older person鈥檚 living environment must support their unique needs, lifestyles, and vulnerabilities.

How does the AIRP Partnership engage with partners and lived experts across cities?

The AIRP Partnership includes more than two dozen co-investigator and collaborators, forty partner organizations, and older adult advisors with lived experience of homelessness.

The Lived Expertise Advisory committee is made up of older adults with experiences of homelessness from Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary. They, along with partner organizations, provide insights and guidance to each city鈥檚 Local Advisory Committee. The Executive Committee guides the project and ensures communication and knowledge sharing across cities. Dr. Canham, the AIRP Partnership鈥檚 Project Director, helms the Executive Committee and liaises with the project鈥檚 funding agencies, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as well as the CMHC-funded Collaborative Housing Research Network (CHRN) Hub.

Funders

Jointly funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the AIRP Partnership is part of Canada's National Housing Strategy to support sector innovation and new housing solutions.

We respectfully acknowledge that McGill University is situated on the traditional territory of the Kanien鈥檏eh脿:ka, a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. We respectfully acknowledge that the University of Calgary is on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta and home to M茅tis Nation of Alberta, Region III. We respectfully acknowledge that 51社区黑料 is located on unceded Coast Salish Territory, the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil鈥怶aututh Nations.