If you are 65 and older or care about someone who is, ICN has an exciting opportunity for you to add your voice to Alberta Health Service’s (AHS) strategic planning. We want to listen and learn from your experiences when it comes to older adults’ health, well-being and independence. Together, we’ll talk about what’s critical when it comes to living and aging well. 

ICN is partnering with AHS to connect with Albertans to identify the most important measures of quality in AHS’s work with older adults and their supporting caregivers. The project will add a citizen or patient perspective to help select the measures that the Provincial Seniors Health and Continuing Care team in AHS uses to evaluate its work around healthy aging.

Imagine Citizens Network, through our relationship with O’Brien Institute of Public Health at the University of Calgary, is inviting you to participate in Giving Day – our most significant donor campaign of the year. Your gift will go twice as far with the matching funds offered by the University.

Last year marked a turning point in our evolution. Since our inception seven years ago, we have been a volunteer powered organization. Last year we received a donation of $150,000 ($50,000 over three years) allowing us to begin to hire core staff.

In the coming year, we will continue to build our foundation (technology infrastructure, staffing and funding) as well as focus on two key initiatives: