Practical and Personal Resources for Caregivers (part 1)
Saturday January 10, 2026 from 10:30-Noon (ET)
Offered to you by the Word and Spirit Institute
together with the Eldercare Network
Are you one of the 25% of Canadians caring for aging parents or relatives? Do you wish someone could point you to resources pertaining to your situation? Would you like to be coached in knowledge and steps that will help you? Come and hear from an experienced professional in the caregiving field! There will be lots of opportunity to interact, ask questions and discuss with others in this webinar in caregiving. Resources and tips will be shared. You will also hear testimonies of lived experiences of caregiving.
We are living through a profound demographic moment. For the first time in history, older adults represent one of the fastest-growing segments of our communities. This reality brings with it extraordinary resources of wisdom, faith, lived experience, and resilience—alongside very real vulnerabilities, needs, and challenges that too often remain unseen, fragmented, or addressed only in moments of crisis.
The ElderCare Network exists to respond to this moment. Our purpose is to raise awareness of the aging demographic in its richness and complexity, and to help churches, families, and communities respond with compassion, competence and imagination. We seek to honour later life not as a problem to be managed, but as a vital and meaningful season to be supported, valued, and integrated with the life of the community.
The Network is intentionally multicultural, intergenerational, and faith based. We believe aging is not merely a medical or social issue, but is deeply human, relational, and spiritual, touching every generation. As Christians, we seek to encourage all to “bear fruit and flourish in their old age” (Psalm 92). How we understand and respond to aging shapes families, congregations, and the moral fabric of all generations and our common life. When generations learn from one another and share responsibility across ages and cultures, communities are strengthened.
Beginning in 2026, The ElderCare Network will offer a series of free, live monthly webinars on Zoom on the morning of the second Saturday of each month (10:30-noon, ET), with the recording repeated with a live facilitator a week and a half later, aß Wednesday evening at 7:30 (ET). These Webinars are designed to inspire (heart), inform (head), and equip (hands). Topics will include:
Practical & Personal Resources for Caregivers (Part 1) – January 10, 2026
Intergenerational Church and Confronting Ageism – February 14, 2026
A comprehensive model for church-based seniors’ ministries – March 14, 2026
Grandparenting across changing family and cultural contexts
Retirement as transition, identity, and vocation
Aging well: resilience, purpose, and spiritual growth
Loneliness and isolation in our communities
Immigrant seniors and culturally responsive care
Why seniors are leaving churches—and what can be done
These conversations are intended for caregivers, clergy, lay leaders, educators, healthcare and social-service professionals, older adults themselves, and all who are aging and care about the well-being of seniors and the health of the intergenerational community.
At its heart, The ElderCare Network seeks to foster understanding rather than fear, connection rather than isolation, and shared responsibility rather than fragmentation. In the process, faith, fellowship and discipleship will be strengthened for those in the household of God. We aim to create a space where research, practice, pastoral wisdom, and lived experience can come into conversation for the sake of the common good. When Christians love one another and bear each other’s burdens, including those of older persons, we welcome the Kingdom of God.
We invite you to learn with us, reflect with us, and help shape a future in which aging is met with dignity, compassion, wisdom, and hope.
