Every Community is Unique Community development is the process by which a community decides collectively on its needs and develops strategies to utilize its collective power to meet those needs. The information on this fact sheet comes from a cross-Canada process designed to gather valuable learnings from seniors' community projects funded by Health Canada. Nine fact sheets share what was learned about practical ways to deal with issues that affect seniors' health and well-being.
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This approach ensures that seniors define their own needs and come up with their own solutions. It allows community programming for seniors to work with the unique combination of needs and assets of the whole community. A solution worked out by one community may offer valuable lessons for others tackling the same problem. However, every community is different. Community development lends itself to prevention, not just cures.