by Lesley Forrester | Mar 29, 2020 | Health
The worldwide coronavirus emergency is uppermost in the minds and the lives of all health care workers, hospitals, doctors, nurses, PABs, CHSLDs, Social Workers, and everyone associated with the delivery of health care services. In our own province of Quebec,...
by Lesley Forrester | Mar 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the benefits of living in a small community is its ability to respond to its citizens’ needs quickly and with flexibility. The City of Westmount has announced two excellent initiatives which may assist Seniors. The City website states: “In...
by Lesley Forrester | Feb 11, 2020 | Activities
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 | Creativity
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
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
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 | 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...
by Lesley Forrester | Sep 16, 2019 | Activism
The first group of Raging Grannies came together in a loosely knit fashion as anti-nuclear activists calling themselves “NERT — Nuclear Emergency Response Team.” When they began in 1987, they were eleven white, nearly all middle-class,...
by Lesley Forrester | Sep 12, 2019 | Creativity
A number of studies suggest that participatory arts activities within aging populations help to maintain the health and quality of life of older adults. These benefits include improvements in subjective wellbeing, tactile and cognitive abilities and dementia risk...
by Lesley Forrester | Aug 7, 2019 | Creativity
You can use the powers of the aging brain to heighten creativity. The aging brain takes after the creative brain in a number of ways. For example, the aging brain is more easily sidetracked and uninhibited than the younger brain, making it fairly akin to the creative...
