The Seniors’ Health Report 2006 provides an overview of the health of seniors aged 65 years and older. It includes information from a variety of sources on the senior population, general health, mental health, health barriers, health-care services and utilization, lifestyle and health behaviours, sexual health and causes of morbidity and mortality. In addition, recommendations are provided to help public health better address seniors’ health.

This report includes the following sections and chapters:

• Table of Contents (PDF 130KB, 2 pages)
• List of Figures, Tables, Maps and Appendices (PDF 217KB, 9 pages)
• Executive Summary (PDF 199KB, 10 pages) *revised
• Introduction (PDF128KB, 2 pages)

• Peel's Seniors (Chapter 1)
• General Health (Chapter 2)
• Mental Health (Chapter 3)
• Barriers to Health (Chapter 4)
• Health-Care Services and Utilization (Chapter 5)
• Lifestyle and Health Behaviour (Chapter 6) *revised
• Sexual Health (Chapter 7)
• Communicable Disease (Chapter 8)
• Cardiovascular Disease (Chapter 9)
• Cancer (Chapter 10)
• Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (Chapter 11)
• Diabetes (Chapter 12)
• Arthritis or Rheumatism (Chapter 13)
• Injury (Chapter 14)
• External Causes of Emergency Department
  Visits, Morbidity and Mortality (Chapter 15)

• Recommendations (PDF 68KB, 5 pages)
• Data Sources, Methods and Limitations (PDF 82KB, 7 pages)
• Appendices (PDF 74KB, 6 pages)
• References (PDF 88KB, 7 pages)

A complete copy of the report is available in PDF format: Seniors' Health Report 2006. (PDF 5.66MB, 227 pages)

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* Please note - changes have been made to the low risk drinking analysis on pages IV, 65, 72 and 74 effective August 11, 2009.