by Lesley Forrester | Feb 11, 2020 | Activities, Fitness
Starting last Thursday evening, and ending Saturday night, Montreal received over 35 cms of snow. Sunday was the sort of day where you stood at the door and said, “Where do we go from here?” In any case, the snow ploughs and the dump trucks have been out...
by Lesley Forrester | Nov 24, 2019 | Activities, Creativity, Seniors
While many seniors at one time or another think about writing a memoir, many are discouraged by a lack of confidence in their writing ability, or are of the opinion that their stories are not interesting enough. Nevertheless, taking suitable time to write down stories...
by Lesley Forrester | Nov 6, 2019 | Lifestyle, Seniors
Blue Zones are the names given to geographic locations in the world where people typically live past 100. The benchmark for becoming a Blue Zone is having a centenarian rate that is an astonishing three times higher than the national average. Ikaria in Greece,...
by Lesley Forrester | Oct 9, 2019 | Housing, Seniors
In 1998, Shirley Meredeen was in her late 60s and together with Madeleine Lewis had founded Growing Old Disgracefully, a network established to challenge preconceptions of older women as passive and redundant. In the summer of that year, Meredeen attended a workshop...
by Lesley Forrester | Sep 24, 2019 | Intergenerational Living, Seniors Helping Others
The Foster Grandparents Program in the United States had its origin in the 1964 federal War on Poverty legislation. The program aims to give seniors across the country a purpose in retirement by providing some of the neediest children with mentors and giving...
