Service Providers!

A program currently exists called The Age Advantage: A Transition Program for Older Workers. The Age Advantage program, developed by the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship, consists of a series of 20 workshops and 7 supporting information booklets designed to help displaced and unemployed Older Workers navigate life and work changes and to discover satisfying income earning activities for this stage of their lives. The program was created in the form of a facilitator's manual and is currently available to employment practitioners in Nova Scotia. It is a tool that can be used to assist unemployed or underemployed Older Worker clients in the transition to gaining new employment. This program includes workshops and resources regarding the following topics:

Overcoming Challenges
Create a Personal Vision
Making a Living in the 21st Century
Focusing Your Job Search
Marketing Yourself
Creating Opportunities Through Self Employment

The objectives of the Age Advantage Program are:

to provide self-exploration and entrepreneurial tools to Older Workers who are in transition to new employment; to those who are interested in creating their own jobs; or to those who wish to start a small business
to provide positive and empowering support through the transition process
to present the ACSBE Entrepreneurial Cycle and philosophy in the context of Older Worker Transitions
to help renew self-confidence and self-esteem
to co-create a positive view of aging and work through late life and retirement careers to present Older Workers with tools and strategies to help them get back to work

A CD of the complete Program and accompanying booklets is available to Career Practitioners employed with career development agencies and organizations in Nova Scotia. To obtain a copy of the program, please submit your request to: olderworker@gov.ns.ca

For organizations and practitioners outside of the province of Nova Scotia or are not attached to a career development organization in Nova Scotia, please visit www.ageadvantage.ca for more information about acquiring this resource.

Bibliography

Available in PDF format here

Additional Resources

The East Coast Reader - Special Nova Scotia Department of Education Issue - October 2003 (PDF 9.35 MB)

Older Workers - An Asset to the Workplace Brochure (PDF 440 KB)

Older Workers Poster (PDF 440 KB)

Click here for additional older worker client resources.

Links

Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP)

Experience Workers

Age Positive (UK)

Aging Today, publication of the American Society On Aging

Current Initiatives