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Importance Of End-Of-Life Care
Photo Credit: ehospice.com While everybody has been debating about the pros and cons of the proposed Bill C-14 on the right to die in Canada, another important topic is being sidelined – the access to...
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Slowing Aging May Not Be That Bad
Last month, The Economist‘s article, Cheating Death, conjured up the distant possibility of slowing, and even abolishing, aging all together with successful scientific research and breakthroughs. With...
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Top 10 Good News To Come
Photo Credit: Ottawa Citizen 2016 was full of bad news, so let’s hope the new year is going to bring more good tidings, particularly for us boomers! Based on some of the developments last year, here...
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Federal Government Needs To Speed Up On Universal Drugs Plan
Photo Credit: Evidence Network Two years ago, I posted an article on this blog entitled “Time To Introduce Universal Drugs Plan Is Now,” saying that the Federal Government seemed to be dragging their...
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Increase In Cancer Rates Shocks Canadians
A new report released last month by the Canadian Cancer Society, in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada, predicted that almost one in every two Canadians is...
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Wellness Travel Popular Among Boomers
I recently conducted an interview with a freelance journalist who was drafting an article on the latest boomer-travel trends for publication in a newsletter for Manulife Financial. I told her that...
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National PharmaCare On The Horizon
I have more than once advocated the support of a national pharmacare program for Canada on this blog. It, therefore, gave me hope when the Trudeau Government recently plucked Ontario’s Health...
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Personal Support Workers In High Demand
Photo Credit: Canadian Career College The New York Times reported recently that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis, among the 10 occupations expected to grow the most through 2026,...
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Suicide Rates Can Be Reduced
Photo Credit : Huffington Post Two recent celebrity suicides sparked off a lot of discussions about mental health issues. Both Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain were unlikely victims of suicides because...
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Boomers: No Strangers To Cannabis
The big hoopla about Canada’s legalization of cannabis has finally subsided a bit. I believe that very little will change in terms of behaviour. According to Statistics Canada, 4.9 million of...
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Boomers/Seniors Should Rely Even More On Technology
It was recently drawn to my attention that there is an Infographic on “The Elderly and The World Wide Web” which explains the U.S. seniors’ relationship with digital technology and how they...
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Canada’s Employers Should Support Caregiving Duties
According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, about 50 percent of Canadians have cared for an aging, sick or disabled family member or friend at some point. Women face a larger caregiving...
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Helping Canada’s Mature Population Sleep Better
Photo Credit: Daily Mail According to Statistics Canada, as many as 20 to 30 percent of people in the general population sleep poorly. They may have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, some...
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Boomers Should Cut Down On Alcohol Consumption
A number of recent studies found that alcohol consumption across the world has increased, and by 2030, the amount of alcohol people drink will only go up. A new study published in medical journal The...
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Federal Government’s New Drug Policy A Welcome Move
Photo Credit: oncologynurseadvisor.com The Federal Liberals may or may not win the October elections, but their recent policy on reducing drug costs for Canadians was a welcome move. Early this month,...
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Fearmongering More Damaging Than Coronavirus
Photo Credit: cnn.com Ever since the outbreak of the Coronavirus also known as 2019-nCoV, there has been an increasing tide of xenophobia in Western countries around the world. According to The...
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Actors, Like Wine, Fare Better With Age
Photo Credit: Harper’s Bazaar As a cinephile, I have been observing the careers of boomer actors, particularly their accomplishments during awards seasons. Now that the latter is finally over, let’s...
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Boomer and Millennial “COVIDiots” Should Take Virus Seriously
Photo Credit: National Post Once again, even during a global health crisis, millennials and boomers are at loggerheads blaming each other for not complying with the government’s stay-at-home directive....
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April Is The Cruellest Month
Photo Credit: macleans.ca When T.S. Eliot wrote “April is the cruellest month” in his famous poem The Waste Land in 1922, he certainly did not have COVID-19 in mind. Yet, his themes of...
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Boomer Industries Need to Attract Millennials
In spite of the ongoing feud between the boomer and millennial generations, we need to admit that a few industries, which have hitherto been staunchly supported by boomers throughout the years, need...
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