Showing posts with label ageing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ageing. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

The Joy of Growing Older, Part Two: Gen X and Millennials, Inheriting the Myth of Forever Young

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  In my last post I   explored how the Baby Boomer generation helped shape the culture of youth, a powerful idea that being young isn’t just...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Communicationn best practices for ageism awareness.

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Use Language That Is Inclusive and Free of Age Bias   Words carry powerful associations. When discussing older individuals, opt for terms ...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Becoming 75

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T here are many people this year who are turning 75 and there are many who fear turning that age. There are milestone birthdays that we have...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Medical Myths debunked ageing

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There is a wonderful series on Medical Myths put out by Medical news Today . This article tackles myths relating to ageing For the Full arti...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Should you age proof your house?

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Maybe my wife and I are in denial. We've been talking about ageing, and I have thought about whether or not we should prepare to age in ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

65 Years old is still young!

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I posted about this a few months ago, asking the question how do you define old? My answer was/is “Anyone who is 10 years older than me is o...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

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The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging  (BLSA) is one of the world’s longest-running studies on aging. It began in 1958 and continues to ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Loneliness a different perspective 2

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Social isolation in childhood and in late adulthood both have an impact on neurobiological architecture and functional organization. The ...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Life in uncertain times

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Life is surely uncertain now; we don't know what's happening  or we don't think we do, these changes upset us in our body, mi...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

How old is old?

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65 Years old is still young! How old is old? World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared that 65 years old is still considered young. ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Healthy Ageing 5

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As we end the year, here is the final look at healthy ageing for a while. The look ends with the idea of how important it is to voluntee...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Healthy Ageing 4

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Back in 2011, the Ministry of Health for British Columbia looked at what the literature said about healthy ageing. Here is some of what wa...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Healthy Ageing 3

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Back in 2011, the Ministry of Health for British Columbia looked at what the literature said about healthy ageing. Here is some of what was...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

AGE-WELL NCE Inc

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Have you ever heard of AGE-WELL NCE Inc .? I haven’t and I have been writing about senior issues for about 10 years and have been involve...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

International Day of Older Persons

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On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons with the theme be...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Factors that affect the time use of seniors 1

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Seniors are increasing as a percentage of the population. According to the 2016 Census, there were 5.9 million seniors in Canada, which acc...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

How do you spend your time?

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A growing body of research is examining how older Canadians spend their time.  Over the next few posts, I will take a look at the research...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Survey on Ageing Part Two

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A Place For Mom recently did a survey to see what younger people think about ageing. The results are interesting. Some fear physical frai...