For further assistance with your assignment, ask at the Belzberg Library Reference Desk or contact Nina Smart, Liaison Librarian for Gerontology (778.782.5043 (Tuesdays and Thursdays) or nsmart@sfu.ca) Monday to Thursday at Belzberg Library or Ask a Librarian. 

Term paper

• Start your research here - an overview of the research process
• Moving from citation to article - "how to get your hands on journal articles". Includes a useful section on decoding citations: book, book chapter or article?

 Books

• The collective spirit of aging across cultures
• Diversity and aging among immigrant seniors in Canada: Changing faces and greying temples [print]
• Exploring change in the meaning of home for South Asian Indians who immigrate in late-life [SFU thesis]

To find more books, search the SFU catalogue -- sample subject headings:

• Minority older people -- Canada
• Older immigrants -- Canada

 Journal articles:

• Ageline - major database for social gerontology. Sample terms: Minority Groups ; Foreign Origin Adaptation; Social Networks; Canada or Outside United States; Indians; Racial and Ethnic Groups

• CINAHL Complete - nursing and allied health Sample terms: Minority groups ; Ethnic Groups
• Medline -  major medical  database Sample terms: Minority Groups; Minority  Health.  You can Limit searches by Age Related (Aged: 65+ years)
• Sociological Abstracts - database for sociology including social work Sample terms: Minority groups; Ethnic groups; Elderly
• PsycINFO  - major psychology database Sample terms Minority Groups; Racial and Ethnic Groups; You can Limit searches by Age Groups (Aged: 65+ years)

For more articles you might want to browse Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology  Sample articles: Older Asian Indians resettled in America: narratives about households, culture and generation; "Waves” of Asian Indian Elderly Immigrants: What Can Practitioners Learn?; and Older Asian Indians resettled in America: narratives about households, culture and generation.

See also course page for SA 100: Perspectives on Canadian Society

Associations and  Web pages

• BC Care Providers Association
• British Columbia Seniors Living Association (BCSLA) (Dec 2018 not working - temporarily?)
• Family and Relationships - Canadian Immigrant magazine
• Senior's mental health - self help resources from HeretoHelp (BC), including: Ethnocultural Elders and Mental Health

Statistics:

Immigration and ethnocultural diversity Statistics Canada subject, including:

• Changes in the Regional Distribution of New Immigrants to Canada (2015)
• The contribution of immigration to the size and ethnocultural diversity of future cohorts of seniors 
• Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada