Fountain of Health Tools

Healthy Living Handbook              
Five key Fountain of Health messages and actions you can take for optimal aging (downloadable/printable PDF form)

Goal Setting Sheet              
Write your goals down on this printable form to help you achieve them.

A Positive Thinking Exercise              
Use this exercise to reflect on your beliefs.

Fountain of Health's Mental Health Myths and Facts Brochure              
Getting the mental health care you need as you age is very important. This booklet describes common misconceptions about getting mental health care help and describes a typical mental health visit.

Why Isn't Dad Fishing Anymore? Seniors and Depression              
A video of a real family whose father develops depression.

Other Tools

Susan Piver Open Heart Project              
Join a global mindfulness community that supports and guides a daily mindfulness practice.

UCLA - Free Guided Meditations

Self-Assessment Kiosk              
The Self-Assessment Kiosk is user-friendly, flexible, anonymous resource that allows users to measure up to 18 domains of mental and general health using valid questionnaires.

Positive Thinking Skills Workbook              
An online and downloadable Cognitive Behavioral Therapy workbook with exercises to address negative thought patterns and behaviors.

Cogniciti              
Free Brain Health Assessment from Baycrest.

Helpful Links

Guidelines for Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Older Adults in Canada

Hello Brain              
Hello Brain provides easy-to-understand scientific information about brain health.

Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health              
A national resource for seniors mental health, with clinician and patient and family guidelines on topics such as: depression, suicide, delirium and dementia.

McMaster Optimal Aging Portal              
This site offers a wealth of healthy aging information based on scientific evidence, both for the public and clinicians.

Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines and Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines              
See the full Guidelines, or the shorter Handbook with log books with examples of ways you can incorporate physical activity into your schedule. Use the blank logs at the back of the handbook to track your own progress!

Government of Canada: Information for Seniors              
Access federal and provincial information about the services, benefits, programs and initiatives available to seniors in your province.

Canadian Mental Health Association              
A national organization in support of Canadians living with mental illness and their families.

Active Living Coalition for Older Adults              
This website offers resources and tools to support physical activity and active living to promote independence and well-being.

Baycrest              
Visit Canada's centre of excellence on memory and aging.

DoctorEvans Video:23 and 1/2 hours              
Doctor Evans answers the question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way.

Sizzle and Snake (Oil): Health Literacy in the Digital Age              
Community of Innovation Podcast.

Publications

What's the Evidence?              
Click Here to find research papers and references showing the scientific evidence to back up each of the five key Fountain of Health™ areas for optimal aging.

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