Dialogue on Aging

Fall 2025 theme: Climate Change and Aging

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Overview

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For over a decade the Dialogue on Aging public presentations  have provided learning opportunities for seniors and others via a  range of topics and a variety of speakers - researchers, clinicians and  others who  bring an array of expertise and experience. 

Two years ago we partnered  with the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, UBC  to expand the delivery of our free in person and virtual public presentations on healthy aging.

Every 3 to 4 months there is a new theme for the presentations. Each theme includes an in-person lecture at a local and accessible Vancouver venue, with free refreshments, as well as 2 to 3 virtual presentations.

Upcoming events

The health of Canadians in the climate emergency: what can you do?

1:30-3:00 PM PT | September 11, 2025 | VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver

Dr. Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

This talk will examine the climate emergency through the experience of a physician-scientist who's career has focused on the health impacts of climate change. Dr. Takaro will describe the stiff political resistance to overwhelming evidence presented by scientists from around the world, that Canada must stop building new fossil energy infrastructure, rapidly transition our energy production to renewables and turn to a future where societal well-being, not fossil energy profits, carries us into the future.

Dr. Takaro is a professor emeritus and physician-scientist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. His research is primarily about the links between human exposures and disease, and planetary health. With immense gratitude to the First Peoples, he is beginning to use Indigenous knowledge to relearn environmental health as he tests different interventions in climate action and planet protection. This collaboration and the failure to stop TMX with the usual academic public health approach of education and advocacy, Dr. Takaro led Protect the Planet into the trees to block construction, resulting in his incarceration in June 2022. 

Please register here for the lecture

Past event recordings

Archived recordings from past Dialogue on Aging Public Presentations can be found below. The presentations cover a broad range of healthy aging topics, current research, and resources for the particular topic and theme.

Spring 2025: Innovations in Care

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Winter 2025: Biology & aging

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Fall 2024: Cognition, memory & aging

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Spring 2024: Society, culture & aging

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Winter 2024: Mental health & aging

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Fall 2023: Technology & aging

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2022 Presentations

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2021 Presentations

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2020 Presentations

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Last reviewed: August 27, 2025