Diabetes Awareness Month
November is Diabetes Awareness month and staggeringly, 1 in 3 Canadians today has diabetes or pre-diabetes. Moreover, diabetes is the leading cause of “blindness, amputation, heart
Fall Prevention Month
November is home to a few special tags, one being Fall Prevention month. The idea of fall prevention is to coordinate efforts across partnered organizations
The Power of UP In Your Community: Community Leaders Share Their Experience Webinar – Instructor
The Power of UP In Your Community: Community Leaders Share Their Experiences On September 25th, 2019 we hosted an exciting and informative session on how Urban
Little Big Things™ – Parkinson’s Innovations to Help You Live Well
The Big Little Event hosted by the Davis Phinney Foundation was an amazing event to learn from inspiring presenters, meet other innovators of devices for
World Stroke Day
Today marks World Stroke Day and Urban Poling is proud to say that stroke clients can absolutely benefit from pole walking–as many already do. For
March of Dimes – Aphasia Camp
On Oct 5, 2019 Urban Poling was a proud member of the March of Dimes Aphasia Camp, which was held in Haliburton, Ontario. We were
Twitter Contest Award Winners!
Congratulations to our 4 “caption-this” contest award winners! Last month we announced the winners on our Twitter page, where we ran a creative-caption-this contest. We’re
Wendi Paterson Inspiration Award – October
We congratulate Kari Galasso from Kingston, ON and Scott Edgar from Newcastle Australia as the inspiring recipients of the Wendi Paterson award this month. Kudos
Happy International Day for Older Persons and National Seniors Day!
October 1st marks a day near and dear to our hearts, it is the United Nations International Day for Older Persons (UNIDOP), as well as
World Heart Day – Celebrating the Brave Hearts
In honour of World Heart Day, which was yesterday September 29, Urban Poling would like to celebrate all the strong-hearted individuals who have “UP-ed” their