An Empowering Day

By Ralph Marston

If you catch yourself feeling sorry for yourself you’ve discovered a valuable opportunity. You can transform the negative energy of self-pity into positive energy to improve your situation.

Ask Goldie - February 2012

By Goldie Carlow

Goldie Carlow offers peer support to Senior Living readers by answering their questions in her monthly column.

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Print Campaign?

By Steffany Gundling

Here are 8 common print ad pitfalls and how to prevent them before they sabotage your campaign.

Beware of Reverse Mortgage Frauds

By Better Business Bureau

Funding retirement can be tricky for some seniors. Instability in the stock market and poor returns on many investments means some seniors are looking to other avenues for financial support.

Managing the Transition to Facility Placement

By Family Caregivers Network Society

At some point in the caregiving journey, many families face the decision of facility placement.

Courageous & Outrageous: How Well Did you Live?

By Pat Nichol

In the end what matters most is: how well did you live; how well did you love; how well did you learn to let go.

Downsizing

By Jody Hanson

Downsizing or how to reduce a two-bedroom flat to two suitcases and a carry-on.

The Nickel

By Gipp Forster

A nickel could go a long way in what my kids always refer to as the “Olden Days.” It could buy a small bag of candy or popcorn at a movie matinee or five black licorice whips or an ice-cream cone or a bottle of pop; soft drinks were a treasure if you had that coveted nickel.

Keeping Anemia at Bay with Diet

By Dr. Nicola J Davies

Fatigue, loss of energy, shortness of breath, leg cramps and insomnia can all be symptoms of anemia resulting from certain nutritional deficiencies. Learn the signs and symptoms of diet-related anemia, and how you can prevent, recognize, manage and treat it.

A Stage for His Kingdom

By Mike Matthews

Most people at 91 years old, pushing 92, won’t have the same vigorous, busy and public life as in previous decades. Unless that person is like Antony Holland of Gabriola Island, formerly of Vancouver, formerly of London, England, formerly of North Africa, originally from Tiverton, Devonshire.

Groovin' With Tom

By Herb Klinger

In a town overflowing with talent, Tom Vickery is Mr. Music, playing hot jazz, cool jazz, from orchestras, bands and combos to solo. With the Dixieland Express, he has been affectionately known as “Papa Smurf.”

Seeking the Pathfinder

By Judee Fong

Nancy Marguerite Anderson’s first book, The Pathfinder, is a tribute to her great-grandfather Alexander Caulfield Anderson, one of British Columbia’s little-known early explorers, fur traders, map-makers, artists and writers.

Painglish

By Alan Williamson

Is your body trying to tell you something? If you think it is, you might want to ask it to speak up louder and sooner.

B.C. Programs Subsidize Low-Income Seniors

Two key programs designed to financially assist lower income seniors can be accessed through the British Columbia government.

Choosing a Senior Residence

Finding a new home takes time and planning. Assisted Living residences come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from as few as three units, to over 60.