Growing older has always been thought of as a bad thing. After all, who wants to get wrinkles and have gray hair? Who wants to find themselves in pain more often than not and be looked upon as someone...
There is a lot of information available on how to build a retirement plan. Most of it is aimed at younger people. We’re told how we could retire with millions if we start to put such and such an...
It is the ‘best of times’ for health care – Canada has some of the best health care professionals in the world, as well as the best, most advanced technology, medicines and treatments. And our longevity has never been...
Each year millions of people have a stroke. A stroke can happen to anyone at anytime and doesn’t just affect the elderly. Strokes occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is cut off. Brain cells are...
In 1980, when I started teaching my program, Somatic Stretch (called BioSomatics at the time), yoga classes barely existed. The few you might find were in church basements, local shopping malls or small back rooms in some out-of-the-way buildings. Imported from the east...
Keeping in touch with family and friends can grow difficult as we age. Our children may move away to another city to work. It may be more difficult for us to get out to spend time with others. Staying...
Adult children quite often have a full time job other than the one you know about. It’s caregiving, most often to a parent or other loved one. This job is tiring, thankless and more often than not, taken for...
One always hopes that as medical practitioners, we will be able to focus our attention on the medical issues faced by seniors and help families cope with the fears, disappointments and tragedies that are faced by loved ones in...
Safety First - For Kids And Pets
As the aging Baby Boomer population retires, more and more Boomer seniors are having home elevators installed.
Along with this increase in sales and installations of in home lifts, has come an increase in...
Our mothers may have told us a lot of things over the years but they definitely left a lot out! Most of the things they didn’t discuss had to do with getting older. When they were growing up women...
