How do we sustain older women's education well into their 80s?
Recommendations
Provide educational opportunities to older women where they are, as older women are often less mobile and have less financial resources.

Provide transportation grants for reasons of safety and mobility.

Develop the role of older women as mentors.

Lobby for compensation to older women for eldercare and childcare.

Develop strategies to reduce isolation, ego creation of communes or intentional communities.

The role of emotional and spiritual growth in learning, education and training
Recommendations
Develop strategies, resources, publicity tools which clearly identify the role of the spiritual in learning processes.

Develop a language with which to address funders to have them recognize the importance of spirituality in learning.

Collect data, program examples and research findings that support the importance of a spiritual/emotional/ mental/physical approach to learning.

Develop comprehensive programs which address the multiple aspects of trauma: behaviour modification, anger management, co-dependency, uncovering core beliefs, repressed memories, understanding cultural lenses, dealing with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Effects, etc.

Continue the on-line discussion of the effects of trauma on learning and education, to share resources and ideas and to give support.

Literacy and Health
Recommendations
Lobby provincial Ministries of Health to have literacy recognized as a health issue.

Lobby provincial Ministries of Education / Training to have the detrimental impact on health recognized as a consequence of un/underemployment and inadequate training opportunities.

Develop and deliver training for health care professionals on broader health issues such as literacy, poverty, social isolation, violence and trauma, un/underemployment, etc.

Collect and compile resources related to education and health.

Creating a pro-active strategy for connecting to corporate and other community development resources
Recommendations
Develop a strategic national approach, possibly through partnerships that are topic- or task-focused rather than women-focused.

Communicate and work collaboratively to avoid competing for same funds, to share resources and to expand the breadth of projects.

Design a national body to act as a clearinghouse of information and research.

Develop new models of advocacy work that incorporate national, regional and grassroots levels.

Develop a strategy for national organizations to work cohesively and effectively with grassroots organizations.

Develop a strategy to connect the expertise of women working in various sectors: academic, advocacy, grassroots, corporate, public and voluntary, to build a more powerful, influential, effective network.

Maximize use of technology by organizations, for networking, etc. and to help women gain access.