Aging of the population is probably one of the most discussed and debated subjects in Canada today.

Learning for Life: Canadian Readings in Adult Education is a comprehensive guide to Canadian adult education today. It ranges across all of the key foundational issues and is structured to provide chapters on all of the important themes. Students of adult education will find that this collection is a valuable source for college, university or post-graduate study. General readers, and practitioners in the field, will want this book as a useful reference and guide to Canadian adult education theory and practice. The chapters, which have been specially written for this collection, are contributed by members of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.

This is one of a series of vignettes designed to provide a statistical portrait of seniors in Canada. These first 20 vignettes include data such as numbers of seniors in various age groups, geographic distribution, demographics, home ownership, housing, employment, life expectancy, health, and income.