Vivien Lai Changemaker Awards

Two award categories are open for nominations:

1. Innovation in Housing, Continuing Care or Residential Services

The criteria which will be used to assess nominations include one or both of the following:

Innovations:

• Implementing culture change for person-centered practice or delivery, focused on meaningful engagement with older Albertans, making a difference in the individual’s quality of lived experience, appreciating differences, and creating an age positive culture including integrating family caregivers.
• Developing new staffing or education models that create both quality of life for individuals and family care partners and work with meaning for staff and/or expand education programming closer to students in collaboration between educators and providers.  

2. Innovation in Community Social/Health Services Integration

The criteria which will be used to assess nominations include one or both of the following:

Innovations

• A focus on people in communities, moving from a focus on inputs (e.g. health system, payers, buildings and clinicians) to outcomes for people.
• Embracing cross-sectoral actions as key to integrated community systems and connections that enhance access to community services.

Award criteria for both categories:

• Demonstrate collaborative engagement—cross-sectoral initiative; multi-party implementation; citizen engagement.
• Development based on knowledge mobilization and integration of evidence and experiential insights.
• Clarity of intent and impact measures.
• Nominees should be front-line transformational leaders or service and support/service development teams, rather than senior organization administrators.
• Nominees from rural as well as urban settings and organizations of all sizes are encouraged.

Nominations (consisting of a completed Nomination Form and 2 letters of support must be submitted by email only to: info@albertaaging.ca.

Deadline is 4:00 pm on Monday, April 6, 2026