Other Nova Scotia Seniors’ Organizations

•   Community Links
•   Association of Dalhousie Retirees and Pensioners
•   Grandparents’ Rights for Nova Scotia Association
•   Italian-Canadian Golden Age Senior Group
•   Indo-Canadian Senior Group of Nova Scotia
•   Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University

Community Links

Community Links is a provincial voluntary organization with a membership of 190 mainly senior and senior serving organizations. It works to promote healthy communities and to improve the quality of life for seniors and others in rural Nova Scotia through community development and volunteer action. Current projects include: Preventing Falls Together; the Rural Volunteers Project; and Rural Seniors Influencing Policy on Transportation. It is also the co-host, with Recreation Nova Scotia, for the Nova Scotia Network of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative.

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Association of Dalhousie Retirees and Pensioners

This association facilitates and promotes the dissemination of information of interest to Dalhousie (DAL) University retirees and enhances and promotes the sense of continuing membership in the DAL retirees’ family.

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Grandparents’ Rights for Nova Scotia Association

This association is committed to raising public awareness about the important issue of grandparents’ rights and creating widespread support for the relationship between children and grandparents, to make the life cycle complete.

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Italian-Canadian Golden Age Senior Group

This group meets socially on a weekly basis and focuses on organizing recreational, cultural, and fund-raising activities at the Italian-Canadian Cultural Association of Nova Scotia Centre in Halifax.
Throughout the year members and guests have the opportunity to attend presentations on various topics such as health issues, social benefits, literacy/computers, and investment planning.

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Indo-Canadian Senior Group of Nova Scotia

This group teaches skills, fitness and languages, and organizes recreational, cultural, and fund-raising activities. You can attend presentations on a variety of topics including health issues, investments, insurance, estate planning, literacy, social benefits, exercise, and meditation. The group meets regularly in Bloomfield Centre, Halifax.

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Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University

The Centre on Aging undertakes research projects, continuing education initiatives and community consultation on age-related issues.

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Dr. F. R. MacKinnon Endowment Fund

This fund, associated with the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, is dedicated to establishing standards of excellence in age-related issues. The fund supports the mandate of the Centre to support research; promote education with practitioners, seniors, and caregivers; and consult with seniors’ organizations and decision makers. Contributions are accepted as charitable donations. Please make your cheque payable to Mount Saint Vincent University, and send it to:

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Phone: (902) 457-6546