Senior Living Magazine Vancouver Edition February 2011

SPECIAL HOUSING EDITION

Vancouver’s 50+ Active Lifestyle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2011

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When Caregiving at Home is No Longer Possible

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COLUMNS 4 The Family Caregiver by Barbara Small

18 Forever Young by William Thomas

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32 Reflections: Then & Now by Gipp Forster

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FEATURES 6 Moving MomRetirees contemplate housing options, while also dealing with those options for their elderly parents.

8 Directory of Senior ResidencesA guide to residences participating in this issue.

10 Retiring to the South OkanaganOne retiring couple considers their options in southern British Columbia – what they looked for.

14 For Whom the Dinner Bell TollsSenior residences are serving up both gourmet meals and good ol’ favourites.

16 A Place to Call HomeOne woman’s determination lead to safe and supportive housing for hundreds of others.

22 Threads of LifeSilver Harbour Senior Centre weavers keep the ancient art alive.

24 To Serve OthersCelebrating a life dedicated to volunteering.

26 Building Cultural BridgesHelping New Canadians feel at home in Vancouver.

28 Music Makes the World a Better PlaceBluegrass musician Sue Malcolm shares her love of music.

30 Prevent FallsImprove your balance with these activities.

This month’s feature is about housing for seniors. This topic is covered twice during our editorial year with a slightly different emphasis each time. This issue, we focus on senior residences – in partic-ular, how their food services are setting a new standard because more residences are seeking the culinary expertise of profes-sional chefs.

Gone are the days of dishing up plates of non-descript food in a “take it or leave it” manner. Many of today’s residences are offering a gracious dining experience that equals or exceeds the standards of many high-class restaurants.

Menu items like Salmon with Dill Sauce, Saffron Truffle Rice and Grilled Artichokes with a Raspberry Vinaigrette. Or champagne and hors d’oeuvres fol-lowed by NY Strip Loin Roast topped with Crab Meat, served with Duchesse Potato, White Asparagus and Grilled Red Pepper, and finished off with decadent Chocolate Lava Cake served on linen garbed tables bestrewn with fresh flowers, elegant cut-lery, bone china and crystal flute glasses.

I overheard my husband ask, when tak-ing a tour of a newly opened senior resi-dence, whether they were taking anyone under the age of 55. Certainly, he isn’t alone in wanting to live a well-situated, elegant lifestyle in a resort-style setting replete with in-house amenities that in-clude a theatre, gym, library, pub, mas-sage parlour, hairstylist, billiards room, woodworking shop and even a Starbucks! It’s a boomer’s dream come true!

In the seven years we have been pub-lishing Senior Living, we have seen a lot of change, improvement and innovation taking place around services being pro-vided to seniors. As the baby boomers continue to age, you can be assured we will see plenty more.

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and end-of-life care. In order to access these options and

determine your loved one’s eligibility for subsidy, speak with your Home and Community Care case manager. If you do not have one, contact the Home and Community Care division of your local health authority.

Both Assisted Living and Residential Care are also available through private-pay facilities. The Senior Living Hous-ing Directory at www.seniorlivingmag.com/housingdirectory has information on both subsidized and private residen-tial options.

Caregiving does not end when the person you care for moves into a resi-dence. Although no longer solely re-sponsible for personal care, you will still need to make legal and financial decisions, visit, run errands and partici-pate in care decisions. But you will also have the opportunity to revive your old relationship and once again focus on be-ing a spouse, son or daughter and not only a caregiver.

Next month: Balancing Caregiving and Employment

When Caregiving at Home is No Longer an Option

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BY BARBARA SMALL

Barbara Small is the Program Development Coordinator for Family Caregivers’ Network Society located in Victoria, BC. www.familycaregiversnetwork.org

In many caregiving situations, there comes a time when pro-viding care at home is no longer the best option. It may be that

your loved one’s health has deterio-rated to a point where he or she needs more care than can be provided at home, even with assistance from home support services. Or it may be that the family caregivers are burnt out or cir-cumstances have changed in their lives where they are no longer able to meet the demands of caring.

Deciding to move into a care facility can be a difficult decision for both the person who is moving and other fam-ily members. Many emotions can arise including guilt, grief and anger. As a family caregiver, you may feel you have failed or let your loved one down. But the reality may be that the person need-ing care will be safer and better cared for in a situation where staff is available 24 hours a day and trained to provide the personal care now needed.

Two options are available for sub-sidized housing through the local health authority – Assisted Living

and Residential Care. The Vancouver Island Health Au-

thority website states that Assisted Living is “for seniors and people with physical disabilities who need a safe en-vironment to live, and help with daily tasks.” It includes accommodation, meals, housekeeping and personal-care assistance. In order to be eligible for Assisted Living, the resident needs to be able to make decisions on his or her own behalf or be living with a spouse who can make those decisions. Other prerequisites for tenancy include the ability to communicate with others and stable health.

On the Lower Mainland, visit www.vch.ca and type Assisted Living into the search bar to find the eligibility criteria to determine if your loved one meets the requirements.

Alternatively, Residential Care facil-ities are “available to adults with com-plex medical and cognitive care needs and an assessed and urgent need for 24-hour care.” Services include accom-modation, 24-hour nursing care, meals, housekeeping, personal care assistance

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Make your rent more aff ordableLow-income seniors, 60 years or older, who have lived in B.C. for the past 12 months, may be eligible to receive cash assistance towards their monthly rent payment through the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program.

The Government of British Columbia helps make rent more aff ordable for more than 15,000 low-income seniors across the province through the SAFER program.

To apply or learn more about SAFER, contact BC Housing:> 604-433-2218 (Metro Vancouver)> 1-800-257-7756 (elsewhere in B.C.)

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ARE YOU ELIGIBLE? You may be eligible for SAFER if you meet all of the following conditions:

1. You are 60 or older.

2. You have lived in British Columbia for the full 12 months immediately preceding your application.

3. You and your spouse (with whom you are living) meet one of the following citizenship requirements: Canadian citizen(s); or authorized to take up permanent residence in Canada; or Convention refugee(s).

4. You pay more than 30 per cent of your gross (before tax) monthly household income towards the rent for your home, including the cost of pad rental for a manufactured home (trailer) that you own and occupy.

If you are eligible, SAFER may subsidize part of the rent that is over 30 per cent of your income.

To fi nd out more about SAFER, including application forms:www.bchousing.org 604-433-2218 (Metro Vancouver)1-800-257-7756 (elsewhere in B.C.)

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Make your rent more aff ordableLow-income seniors, 60 years or older, who have lived in B.C. for the past 12 months, may be eligible to receive cash assistance towards their monthly rent payment through the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program.

The Government of British Columbia helps make rent more aff ordable for more than 15,000 low-income seniors across the province through the SAFER program.

To apply or learn more about SAFER, contact BC Housing:> 604-433-2218 (Metro Vancouver)> 1-800-257-7756 (elsewhere in B.C.)

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1. You are 60 or older.

2. You have lived in British Columbia for the full 12 months immediately preceding your application.

3. You and your spouse (with whom you are living) meet one of the following citizenship requirements: Canadian citizen(s); or authorized to take up permanent residence in Canada; or Convention refugee(s).

4. You pay more than 30 per cent of your gross (before tax) monthly household income towards the rent for your home, including the cost of pad rental for a manufactured home (trailer) that you own and occupy.

If you are eligible, SAFER may subsidize part of the rent that is over 30 per cent of your income.

To fi nd out more about SAFER, including application forms:www.bchousing.org 604-433-2218 (Metro Vancouver)1-800-257-7756 (elsewhere in B.C.)

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The author’s mom Edith

She was a feisty one, my mother: always knew what she wanted and was never afraid to express it. This became clear to me as she aged, involv-ing me more and more in her life.

At 83, Mom was looking forward to aging in place with Dad, her groom of 60+ years. But fate had other plans; their lives took an unfortunate turn, he was diagnosed with Al-zheimer’s disease.

Dad’s placement in care meant Mom’s life took on a new focus; she visited him three times a week – a trip that took over an hour each way, while still living in their large home.

Eventually, this routine took its toll physically and emo-tionally, so I suggested she might want to move nearer to both Dad and I. She refused, but agreed to see what options were available, should she change her mind.

The search was fruitless; nothing was right - too small, too many “old people.” Our hunt continued, while she grew more fatigued.

Eventually, we found a large, one-bedroom apartment in an independent living residence. I was hopeful this was the one. It was perfect, with large, bright rooms, a scenic moun-tain view and sunny balcony. But it wasn’t right either.

Leaving for a weekend away and feeling frustrated, I kept quiet. When I returned, Mom called to chat. How was my weekend, where did we go, told me about her lawn bowling score – the usual chit-chat. Just before saying goodbye, she asked me to go to the apartment we had visited and make a deposit for her. So, the move was on.

Three months until moving day, time to list their house and clear out 20 years of possessions. What to downsize was the biggest decision, eased by my helpful husband, who sketched Mom’s new home and her furniture to scale, so she knew ex-actly what would fit.

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I soon realized this was the first ma-jor decision she had ever made with-out my father’s input. Her enormous guilt and anguish were obvious. “Your dad will know what I have done. What will he say? Where will he go when he comes home?” Logical questions, in a perfect world, which no longer existed for them. She needed to be constant-ly soothed of her guilt and reminded that Dad’s new world was a happy one – and this next chapter in her life was well beyond his understanding.

Moving day arrived and went smooth-ly, but one tiny incident indicated how much pain she was feeling. With the moving truck loaded, all that remained to pack were Mom’s toiletries; I asked her to help me but she didn’t come. I found her at the kitchen sink. Her shoulders set firmly, her slight frame trembling. She was peeling apples, freshly picked from their apple tree. With impatience, I asked what she was doing. Her answer was simple: “Making applesauce!”

The impact of the move on her struck me: Her life and all she held dear was wrapped up in this familiar task. The absolute finality of life without my dad, visiting the shell that was left of him, selling their house, cleaning out all his “junk” littering the garage, was too much. I made the applesauce at home for her that night.

To her credit, she settled well into her new home. A bright and active 85 year old, she became part of a new community, on her terms. Solitary and interested only in what she wanted to do, there were no rides in the resident’s bus or any social events, except for af-ternoon tea. But with our outings, she became a familiar face to the local mall shopkeepers, made friends with two little girls on her daily walks and en-joyed our trips to Tim Hortons, where she doubled her chances to “roll up the rim” with two cups of coffee.

Mom lived there for the next seven years; moving twice more within the home as her physical needs increased, each move fraught with some difficulty. She died at 92, in the end happy and well cared for, but still as feisty as ever. SL


Directory of Senior Residences BRITISH COLUMBIA

Abbeyfield Houses of Vancouver *604-261-1180; 1275 West 6th Ave., Vancouverwww.abbeyfieldvancouver.comGarden; laundry facilities; near library; certain pet restrictions; all meals; scooter parking

Amica at Arbutus Manor pg 7 604-736-8936;2125 Eddington Drive, Vancouver; www.amica.ca; 40 UnitsActivity programs; assistance offered; flat laundry; flexible meal choices; house-keeping

Amica at Mayfair pg 7604-552-5552; 2267 Kelly Avenue Port Coquitlam; www.amica.ca; 86 UnitsActivity programs; cable TV; free laundry facility; community kitchen; fitness cen-tre; certain pet restrictions

Amica at Rideau Manor pg 7 604-291-1792; 1850 Rosser Ave., Burnabywww.amica.ca; 140 Units Games room; free laundry facilities; 24hr call system; housekeeping; park-ing; activity programs; insuite full or part kitchens

Amica at West Vancouver pg 7604-921-9181; 659 Clyde Avenue West Vancouver; www.amica.caHousekeeping; linen & towels supplied; games room; garden; hair salon; library; 24hr call system’

Arrowtarian Rotary Villa *250-265-3370; 212 7 Avenue, Nakuspwww.arrowtarian.com; 43 UnitsCertain pet restrictions; free laundry fa-cilities; parking; insuite cooking; lounge; crafts

Astoria, The back cover604-998-1616; 2245 Kelly Ave., Coquitlamwww.astorialiving.ca; 135 Units5-star meals; social activities; wellness programs; fitness centre; games room; lounge

Berwick On The Park *250-377-7275; 60 Whiteshield Cres, Kamloopswww.berwickrc.comActivity programs; housekeeping; inter-net; cable; lounge; games room; fitness centre

Bevan Lodge pg 15604-850-5416; 33386 Bevan Avenue, Abbotsford www.bevanlodge.ca; 150 UnitsRecreational programs; day trips; strength training; housekeeping; linens and towels; dining room; beauty salon

Cavell Gardens pg 12604-637-1207; 2835 Sophia St., Vancouverwww.cavellgardens.comLibrary; computer; fireside lounge; exercise room; 24hr emergency response system; weekly housekeeping; under-ground parking

Chilliwack Lifestyles pg 7604-824-0109; 6980 Vedder Rd. Chilliwackwww.chilliwacklifestyles.comThree meals a day; secure environment; homelike; in-room phone; housekeeping

Crofton Manor pg 13604-263-0921; 2803 West 41 Avenue, Vancouver; www.reveraliving.com; 108(I) 87(A) UnitsLibrary; guest suite; housekeeping & linen services; RN 24hr; recreation program; sprinklers; 2 dining rooms; exercise room

Dunwood Place pg 12604-521-8636; 901 Colborne Street, New Westminster; [email protected] Units; full or part kitchen insuite; hair salon; lounge; near public transit; wheelchair access; woodworking room

Fleetwood Villa pg 13604-590-2889; 16028 83 Ave., Surrey www.reveraliving.comFitness programs; guest suite; library; laundry; lounges; patio/courtyard; house-keeping; private dining room; kitchen-ettes; computer

Harmony Court Estate pg 15604-527-3300; 7197 Canada Way, Burnaby; www.harmonycourtestate.caActivity programs; housekeeping; pet re-strictions; fitness centre; 24hr call system

Hollyburn House pg 13604-922-7616; 2095 Marine Drive, West Vancouver; www.reveraliving.com 36 (CC) 66 (I) UnitsRegular entertainment; restaurant; on site activity coordinator; housekeeping; laundry

Imperial Place pg 10604-581-1555; 13853 102 Ave., Surrey www.allegroresidences.comFull-service dining room; laundry service; kitchenette; social activities; Tai Chi; fit-ness classes; bus outings

L.J. Christmas Manor pg 16604-936-8122; 560 Austin Ave, Coquitlamwww.ljchristmasmanor.comCafeteria; parking facilities; pool tables; shuffle board; library; housekeeping; pub night; home cooked meals; bus

Maple Ridge Srs Village *604-466-3053; 22141 - 119 Ave, Maple Ridge; www.retirementconcepts.com Activity programs; housekeeping; all meals; 24hr call system; dining room; garden

Mulberry, The pg 11604-526-2248; 7230 Acorn Ave., Burnabywww.themulberry.caIn-house chef; weekly housekeeping; heat; hydro; cable TV; 24hr video secu-rity; laundry

Pacifica, The back cover 604-484-0588; 2525 King George, Surrey www.pacificaliving.ca; 99(I) 16(A) UnitsActivity programs; housekeeping; linen & towels supplied; parking; social pro-grams; beauty salon; library; resistance pool

Parkwood Manor pg 13604-941-7651; 1142 Dufferin St, Coquitlamwww.reveraliving.com; 140 UnitsCoffee/Tea service; hair salon; guest suite; games room; fitness centre; theatre; wheelchair access; community kitchen, computer

Peninsula, The back cover604-635-1774; 2088 152 Street, Surreywww.peninsulaliving.ca; 127 UnitsRestaurant; flat linen laundry service; concierce services; social events & activi-ties; therapeutic pool; computer room

Poppy Residences, The pg 17604-568-5563; 5291 Grimmer Street, Burnabywww.thepoppyresidences.com; 70 UnitsLibrary; lounge; bar; coffee/tea service; housekeeping; social programs; activity coor-dinator; craft rooms; computer station; pets allowed

Renaissance, The pg 10604-539-0571; 6676 203 Street, Langleywww.allegroresidences.comConcierge services; laundry service; in-suite storage; movie nights; Tai Chi; bingo; crib; painting club; bus outings; billiards;

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Shannon Oaks pg 9604-324-6257; 2526 Waverly Ave., Vancouverwww.shannonoaks.com; 144 UnitsCable TV; housekeeping; free laundry facility; all meals; hair salon; 24hr call system

Summerhill, The pg 11604-980-6525; 135 W 15 St, North Vancouverwww.thesummerhill.ca; 108 UnitsActivity programs; 24hr call system; free laundry facilities; garden; insuite kitchens

Sunwood (Purchasable) *604-463-5527; 12241 - 224 St. Maple Ridgewww.sunwoodliving.com; 93 UnitsActivity programs; games room; lounge; spa; theatre; housekeeping

Terraces on Seventh pg 14604-738-8380; 1570 W 7 Ave., Vancouverwww.terracesonseventh.com Private balconies; full kitchens; weekly buffet dinner; housekeeping; daily excursions; fitness classes; Tai Chi; Wii; movies; billiards

Whitecliff pg 13604-538-7227; 15501 16 Ave., S. Surreywww.reveraliving.comCable; balconies; kitcheneets; library; un-derground parking; recreation program; religious services; theatre; wheelchair accessible

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Parkville Manor pg 16 306-933-9394; 625 - 25th Street East, Saskatoon www.parkvillemanor.com; 138 UnitsLibrary; computer centre; general store; heated swimming pool; sauna; billiards; sundeck; greenhouse; restaurant; guest suite

*** More information on these residences can be found at: www.seniorlivingmag.com/housingdirectory

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Directory of Senior Residences BRITISH COLUMBIA

Abbeyfield Houses of Vancouver *604-261-1180; 1275 West 6th Ave., Vancouverwww.abbeyfieldvancouver.comGarden; laundry facilities; near library; certain pet restrictions; all meals; scooter parking

Amica at Arbutus Manor pg 7 604-736-8936;2125 Eddington Drive, Vancouver; www.amica.ca; 40 UnitsActivity programs; assistance offered; flat laundry; flexible meal choices; house-keeping

Amica at Mayfair pg 7604-552-5552; 2267 Kelly Avenue Port Coquitlam; www.amica.ca; 86 UnitsActivity programs; cable TV; free laundry facility; community kitchen; fitness cen-tre; certain pet restrictions

Amica at Rideau Manor pg 7 604-291-1792; 1850 Rosser Ave., Burnabywww.amica.ca; 140 Units Games room; free laundry facilities; 24hr call system; housekeeping; park-ing; activity programs; insuite full or part kitchens

Amica at West Vancouver pg 7604-921-9181; 659 Clyde Avenue West Vancouver; www.amica.caHousekeeping; linen & towels supplied; games room; garden; hair salon; library; 24hr call system’

Arrowtarian Rotary Villa *250-265-3370; 212 7 Avenue, Nakuspwww.arrowtarian.com; 43 UnitsCertain pet restrictions; free laundry fa-cilities; parking; insuite cooking; lounge; crafts

Astoria, The back cover604-998-1616; 2245 Kelly Ave., Coquitlamwww.astorialiving.ca; 135 Units5-star meals; social activities; wellness programs; fitness centre; games room; lounge

Berwick On The Park *250-377-7275; 60 Whiteshield Cres, Kamloopswww.berwickrc.comActivity programs; housekeeping; inter-net; cable; lounge; games room; fitness centre

Bevan Lodge pg 15604-850-5416; 33386 Bevan Avenue, Abbotsford www.bevanlodge.ca; 150 UnitsRecreational programs; day trips; strength training; housekeeping; linens and towels; dining room; beauty salon

Cavell Gardens pg 12604-637-1207; 2835 Sophia St., Vancouverwww.cavellgardens.comLibrary; computer; fireside lounge; exercise room; 24hr emergency response system; weekly housekeeping; under-ground parking

Chilliwack Lifestyles pg 7604-824-0109; 6980 Vedder Rd. Chilliwackwww.chilliwacklifestyles.comThree meals a day; secure environment; homelike; in-room phone; housekeeping

Crofton Manor pg 13604-263-0921; 2803 West 41 Avenue, Vancouver; www.reveraliving.com; 108(I) 87(A) UnitsLibrary; guest suite; housekeeping & linen services; RN 24hr; recreation program; sprinklers; 2 dining rooms; exercise room

Dunwood Place pg 12604-521-8636; 901 Colborne Street, New Westminster; [email protected] Units; full or part kitchen insuite; hair salon; lounge; near public transit; wheelchair access; woodworking room

Fleetwood Villa pg 13604-590-2889; 16028 83 Ave., Surrey www.reveraliving.comFitness programs; guest suite; library; laundry; lounges; patio/courtyard; house-keeping; private dining room; kitchen-ettes; computer

Harmony Court Estate pg 15604-527-3300; 7197 Canada Way, Burnaby; www.harmonycourtestate.caActivity programs; housekeeping; pet re-strictions; fitness centre; 24hr call system

Hollyburn House pg 13604-922-7616; 2095 Marine Drive, West Vancouver; www.reveraliving.com 36 (CC) 66 (I) UnitsRegular entertainment; restaurant; on site activity coordinator; housekeeping; laundry

Imperial Place pg 10604-581-1555; 13853 102 Ave., Surrey www.allegroresidences.comFull-service dining room; laundry service; kitchenette; social activities; Tai Chi; fit-ness classes; bus outings

L.J. Christmas Manor pg 16604-936-8122; 560 Austin Ave, Coquitlamwww.ljchristmasmanor.comCafeteria; parking facilities; pool tables; shuffle board; library; housekeeping; pub night; home cooked meals; bus

Maple Ridge Srs Village *604-466-3053; 22141 - 119 Ave, Maple Ridge; www.retirementconcepts.com Activity programs; housekeeping; all meals; 24hr call system; dining room; garden

Mulberry, The pg 11604-526-2248; 7230 Acorn Ave., Burnabywww.themulberry.caIn-house chef; weekly housekeeping; heat; hydro; cable TV; 24hr video secu-rity; laundry

Pacifica, The back cover 604-484-0588; 2525 King George, Surrey www.pacificaliving.ca; 99(I) 16(A) UnitsActivity programs; housekeeping; linen & towels supplied; parking; social pro-grams; beauty salon; library; resistance pool

Parkwood Manor pg 13604-941-7651; 1142 Dufferin St, Coquitlamwww.reveraliving.com; 140 UnitsCoffee/Tea service; hair salon; guest suite; games room; fitness centre; theatre; wheelchair access; community kitchen, computer

Peninsula, The back cover604-635-1774; 2088 152 Street, Surreywww.peninsulaliving.ca; 127 UnitsRestaurant; flat linen laundry service; concierce services; social events & activi-ties; therapeutic pool; computer room

Poppy Residences, The pg 17604-568-5563; 5291 Grimmer Street, Burnabywww.thepoppyresidences.com; 70 UnitsLibrary; lounge; bar; coffee/tea service; housekeeping; social programs; activity coor-dinator; craft rooms; computer station; pets allowed

Renaissance, The pg 10604-539-0571; 6676 203 Street, Langleywww.allegroresidences.comConcierge services; laundry service; in-suite storage; movie nights; Tai Chi; bingo; crib; painting club; bus outings; billiards;

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Shannon Oaks pg 9604-324-6257; 2526 Waverly Ave., Vancouverwww.shannonoaks.com; 144 UnitsCable TV; housekeeping; free laundry facility; all meals; hair salon; 24hr call system

Summerhill, The pg 11604-980-6525; 135 W 15 St, North Vancouverwww.thesummerhill.ca; 108 UnitsActivity programs; 24hr call system; free laundry facilities; garden; insuite kitchens

Sunwood (Purchasable) *604-463-5527; 12241 - 224 St. Maple Ridgewww.sunwoodliving.com; 93 UnitsActivity programs; games room; lounge; spa; theatre; housekeeping

Terraces on Seventh pg 14604-738-8380; 1570 W 7 Ave., Vancouverwww.terracesonseventh.com Private balconies; full kitchens; weekly buffet dinner; housekeeping; daily excursions; fitness classes; Tai Chi; Wii; movies; billiards

Whitecliff pg 13604-538-7227; 15501 16 Ave., S. Surreywww.reveraliving.comCable; balconies; kitcheneets; library; un-derground parking; recreation program; religious services; theatre; wheelchair accessible

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I’m not sure this was a choice we wanted to make but retirement was upon us. At our home in Langley,

we enjoyed fabulous amenities, but the cost in terms of dollars and the fast pace was not what we had planned for the next phase of our lives. Therefore, we looked further east into the interior of B.C. as a possible place to relocate.

I like lists. It drives people crazy but before I can do anything major, I make lists of pros and cons or a list of relevant information to help me make a decision. So, research-ing a new home was definitely something to make a list for. What was important to us? What were our needs? What will our budget be? What would we like to have but don’t necessarily need? It be-came a very extensive list!

We knew we would probably like to settle in the South Okana-gan, so we focused on Keremeos, Osoyoos, Oliver, OK Falls and Penticton, and looked at each place in terms of what they have to offer and asked ourselves if we would be comfortable in one of these locations.

Important factors to consider:

Housing: • What types of living accommoda-

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Retiring to the South Okanagan Amenities:• High on our list of priorities, it included such things as

banking, restaurants, shopping, car repair, grocery stores, churches and a decent hardware store. Is it possible to order a pizza and have it delivered?

Recreation:• Since we were going to be retired, the recreational facil-

ities and availability was important and included golf, curl-ing, skiing, boating, fishing, RVing and walking. I needed to have a library close by to satisfy my insatiable thirst for books. Does each town have an arena or recreation centre? Is there a movie theatre?

Service Organizations: • What is available? We didn’t need anything at the

moment, but if we should need assistance in the future, it would be nice to know if we could have a meal delivered or in-home care. Are there volunteer opportunities or service memberships available?

Friends and Family:• How far will we be from our families? Is it possible to

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What to do today? Play WiiTM golf with some friends. Chat about the latest book club selection. Work out with a fitness class. Join the chorus in a sing-a-long. So much choice.

Our residents love to connect with others. That’s why we offer plenty of social activities and lots of unscripted fun. Anything that appeals to the desire to stay active.

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What to have for dinner tonight? Barbecued ribs with scalloped potatoes. Maybe rotini pasta with sautéed shrimp and vegetables in a rosé sauce. Then a cream puff for dessert – or lemon meringue pie. So much choice.

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Each community in the South Okanagan is unique in its own way and the decision was a difficult one.

KeremeosI love this little village, which actually is considered part

of the Similkameen. We often stopped here to purchase fruit and vegetables at some of their excellent fruit stands and found people to be very friendly. Terrific services include the South Similkameen Health Centre, but there’s a lim-ited variety of housing. The population is less than 1,500 and most of the recreation facilities are outdoors, such as the ice rink and swimming pool. All of the basic amenities are available and a person could manage well, even though there aren’t a lot of choices.

OsoyoosThis growing community is popular with retirees who

enjoy the hot and dry summers and mild winters. Situated a couple of kilometres from the Washington State border, Osoyoos probably has most of what retirees need to live comfortably year-round with excellent services. Osoyoos Lake attracts thousands of visitors each year – it’s a popular tourist destination. The population is just under 5,000 and increases extensively during the summer months when the popular hotels and campgrounds are well utilized.


recreation seriously and there are many walking, hiking or cycling trails – plen-ty of activities to choose from.

We decided to settle in Oliver, for now, and enjoy the small-town atmo-sphere and the people we have met. Most amenities are available and, if not, it’s only 30-minutes to Penticton, which gives us an excuse to go on a small road trip. The town boasts that it is the “Wine Capital of Canada” and offers enough to satisfy our current needs.

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Okanagan FallsThis little community is situated

at the south end of Skaha Lake and is known for its fresh fruit, vegetables and its famous summer flea markets. It does have the basics in terms of amenities and for those people who like a small town atmosphere; OK Falls may suit quite well.

PentictonAlthough Penticton still feels like a

small town, its population is approxi-mately 45,000 and offers most of the big-city amenities. Situated between Okanagan Lake to the north and Skaha Lake to the south, there is lots to do year-round. Accommodation is varied with plenty of choices and the city tends to cater to retirees and seniors. Most major service organizations for the South Okanagan are either in Penticton or Kelowna to the north.

Each village, town or city in the South Okanagan offers a wide range of options. It is always nice to have fresh fruit and vegetables available from local growers and the opportunity to interact with other retirees. Three ski hills are within easy driving distance and there are ample golf courses. The interna-tional airport in Kelowna is easily ac-cessible and there is bus service to each community. The South Okanagan takes

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Throughout the Lower Main-land and across Vancouver Island retirees are hang-ing up home ownership

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Aging tastebuds, however, demand special attention. Gerontologists have noted that the loss of taste or smell can be a primary reason for nutritional shortcomings among seniors. Research indicates the senses have a direct link to physical and mental health, and that improving the quality and hence the enjoyment of food can boost the im-mune system.

Will these senior resident-dwelling folks, no longer shopping and cooking, be spooning up gruel, listlessly aiming their forks at little grey messes, includ-ing freezer-burnt codfish, boiled beef and carrots? Not anymore!

These days, a major selling point for many seniors’ residences is quality of life as experienced through quality of cooking.

“About 40 per cent of our residents come here because of [Chef] Markus,

his reputation,” says Seona Stephan from Victoria’s Carlton House of Oak Bay, a seniors’ residence.

Markus Hediger is Carlton House’s executive chef, who oversees and prepares the meals at this admittedly upscale residence, in both clientele and locale. It is typical, however, in its emphasis on a very high standard in its kitchens.

Meals for residents include such dishes as parsnip and honey soup, es-cargot in mushroom caps, pan-seared scallops, turkey-asparagus crepes, and chocolate lava cake. Old standards like Caesar salad and surf-and-turf appear regularly, and theme dinners underline seasonal holidays.

Trained in Basel, Switzerland, Markus previously operated The Coachman restaurant in Campbell River, followed by stints at popular Victoria restaurants. The major differ-ence he finds in cooking for seniors is economics: his customers at Carlton House, while delighted to have the sort of meal expected in a fine restaurant, are contented with smaller portions, a three-ounce cut of chicken or beef, perhaps. He can often provide these seniors with fresher and finer fare than he was able to access at restaurants.

With quality a chief concern, Markus is delighted to use local seafood, wild B.C. salmon and Alberta beef, whereas in the commercial restaurants he often had to make do with frozen meat from Australia or Argentina.

In commercial restaurants, with their shortcuts and economies due to the va-garies of daily business and uncertain food fashions, what a person learns, he chuckles, is “how not to do it.”

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Chef Catherine Cress came to Na-naimo Seniors Village after working for the Zanetti food company, suppliers to Costco and other retail outlets. The challenge in her new job is to combine restaurant style and scale of operations with home cooking. She particularly enjoys the contact with her clients at Nanaimo Seniors, the chance to mingle with diners and get their responses to her menus and cooking. “It’s relation-al, cooking here,” she smiles. “I get to know the folks. And you have to listen to your customers.”

A glance at menus for Nanaimo Se-niors Village confirms that those folks demand old favourites or standbys like English bangers with onion gravy, or Salisbury steak, and also desire newer adventures, such as salmon mousse with crostini, and candy cane beets. Chefs must run backward and forward at the same time for today’s senior cli-entele. Seniors like good old shepherd’s pie, but they are also ready for Moroc-can lamb stew with spices and herbs unknown to their mums.

Seniors residence Shannon Oaks in Vancouver is taking an extraordinary, if quite logical step in fostering and pro-moting interest in its meals. Following a visit and demonstration cooking by Michael Smith, a noted chef with inter-national experience and expertise, Shan-non Oaks is instituting cooking classes for its residents. To be sure, they eat in the dining room at the residence, but they have kitchens in their apartments, hence meals to prepare. Residents who have not enjoyed cooking in their later years can now, thanks to leadership and inspiration from Michael and from resident chefs, get back in touch with it. “Cooking and the love of food are age-less,” says manager Ron Abbot. “Dining is a daily highlight here.”

As Adele Davis has written, “We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can help us to be much more than what we are.” And, even as people age, they can expand their horizons.

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Jacqueline Hooper admits her experience in the psy-chiatric ward of the Uni-versity of British Colum-

bia Hospital and her recovery from abysmal depression fuelled her fire. For three decades – against the odds – she managed to obtain affordable, safe, friendly accommodation for ex-mental patients.

Her tenacity changed the future for many people.

Of her hospital experience, which lasted for many months in the l970s, Jackie says, “The hospital was a peace-ful haven in which to recover from the rigours of life. Being with other people with similar symptoms on Ward 1 West was a Godsend. I commiserated with my peers, took part in physical activ-ity, and enjoyed the good food.”

She spent a lot of time crying. “Cry-ing is a common pastime in such a ward.”

Jackie’s length of stays varied – usually about a month at a time, until she could function in the world again. “I was one of the lucky ones with a home to which I could return,” she says. “There were many patients with nowhere to go when they were dis-charged. Thinking of them, I remem-ber stowing away my impressions of the hospital experience and planned to adapt them to suit people’s needs in my ‘outside’ life.”

Those impressions included cama-raderie, the day room – where patients could meet to make friends and build community – healthy shared meals and

the quiet comfortable bedrooms. They were all important stepping stones on the road to recovery.

“I had worked it all out in my mind,” she says. “First, I looked for an apart-ment block in a transient neighbour-hood where a communal day room or lounge could be fashioned. That way, tenants could meet to enjoy not only company, but also support; a public kitchen where they could share a low-cost meal at least once a week; a Resi-dent Manager; and, if possible, a quali-fied social co-ordinator. I lucked out! With the help of a sympathetic realtor, I located such a block with 26 bachelor suites in Vancouver’s West End.”

But that was just the beginning of Jackie’s venture. She couldn’t move further on her own, so she solicited help to fulfill her vision.

Social Worker/Activist Helga Hicks was her first choice but she was busy setting up VENTURE, a crisis hos-tel for ex-mental patients. Not to be deterred, Jackie then approached the Coast Foundation Society (now called Coast Mental Health), whose large number of boarding home residents met daily at a “drop-in” house on St. Catherine’s Street in Vancouver.

“I spoke with the Research Director of Coast Foundation Peter Tomlinson, who became very interested in my idea of involving Coast Foundation in hous-ing for ex-mental patients,” she says.

The future of Jackie’s dream start-ed to take shape. She recalls, “At that time, the National Housing Act had changed and was helping groups bor-

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row mortgage funds at low rates.” Coast Foundation was the first non-governmental orga-

nization in North America to take advantage of the offer. “So, with borrowed funds, we acquired the West End apart-ment building I had my eye on.”

Jackie and Peter travelled to Victoria to meet with the fortuitously sympathetic NDP government ministers who formed the provincial government at that time.

”Norm Levi, especially, was very helpful,” Jackie recalls. “The government offered to supply funds for a resident manager, plus operating funds and soon turned the parking garage into an inviting day room for residents.”

Jackie smiles as she reminisces, “The first ex-patients - most from boarding homes – were happily moved into the suites in the summer of l974 with a social co-ordinator to help them cope with independent living. We called it Three-Quarterway Housing as opposed to a halfway housing!”

But it wasn’t all clear sailing. Some people still needed convincing.

“The Board of Directors of Coast Foundation weren’t in agreement with the acquisition of housing although the large membership was positive about the idea,” says Jackie, “so we had to impeach the board and replace the ousted directors with those keen on housing.”

It wasn’t a happy transition. It had to be undertaken with no legal loopholes, so Jackie invited Bary Coull of the Men-tal Patients’ Association to chair the momentous meeting, which brought about the necessary changes.

“After the occupation of the West End property, we in-tended to continue looking for affordable housing, estimat-ing that at least 400 ex-patients desperately needed such ac-commodation,” says Jackie.

“Peter was instrumental in acquiring a 17-suite building near Clarke Drive. And when the neighbourhood residents said, ‘not in my backyard,’ they were promised only resi-dents over age 40 would be allowed. That met with their approval.”

But Jackie and her cohorts weren’t finished yet. Next came a building near Commercial Drive in Vancouver then another on Maclean Drive. Meanwhile, Coast Foundation was also subsidizing individual suites for ex-patients who could live independently.

Almost 40 years have passed since Jackie left the men-tal ward at University Hospital with an idea. Coast Men-tal Health has expanded exponentially with l5 apartment blocks in the city of Vancouver and three more scheduled to open in 2011. It has 126 satellite suites throughout Van-couver, plus 12 licensed care homes and 14 family units with outreach support.

In recognition of the success of her vision, Jackie had her first apartment in the West End of Vancouver named in her honour – The Hooper Apartments. SL

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The Woman Who Owns the Sun Wants Your Billing Address

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Recently Angeles Duran, a 49-year-old enterpris-ing woman from the city of Vigo in Spain’s

northern Galicia province took pos-session of the sun. Some women as-pire to become CEO of Sun Life Fi-nancial or retire in style at Sun Valley, Idaho, but not Angeles – she wants it all. And according to her lawyer, she got it. Angeles Duran now retains sole ownership of Spectral Type G2, com-monly known as the sun.

The United Nation’s Outer Space Treaty of 1967, ratified by 98 nations prohibits any country or government from owning celestial bodies. It does not specifically rule out a person from owning stars or planets. Angeles Du-ran spotted the loophole and registered ownership with a notary public in Vigo, specializing in deeds.

And you’re about to get a bill for the special benefits you receive from that burning ball of fire 93,000,000 miles from your house. Once she begins to collect every human being’s fair share for the heat and light they receive from the sun, she intends to give half of the revenue to her home country. With Spain teetering on the brink of bank-ruptcy, the world is about to witness the first intergalactic bailout.

The other half of the money would be split between Spain’s pension fund, world hunger and research. Angeles

will keep 10 per cent for herself, which is only fair because she came up with the idea of ownership and likely, she’ll get stuck keeping the books. The $300 monthly billings, particularly those going to warring tribes in the Amazon and deadbeat dads will be murder.

By my math, Angeles could earn an annual income of $245,108,486,676, roughly the same amount as the United States national debt. When Washington gets wind of this, they’ll be borrowing from Angeles to pay off China.

In Finland, where it’s dark most of the time, people will pay a lot less than $300 a month. People who live around the Arctic Circle where the sun shines 24/7 all summer will be nailed so bad-ly, they’ll think Dalton McGinty came up with this energy plan.

Sure, she will make tons of money from all the warmth and light, but the minute Angeles took possession of the sun she became responsible for the hundreds of thousands of melanoma cancer diagnosed every year, not to mention settling the estates of all those victims gone before.

Plus, she’ll have to spend billions to buy up and then close down her com-petition. There are now as many tan-ning salons in the world as there are McDonald’s. She will also have to buy several tons of sunblock, if she ever wants to visit her property.

She will need a surveyor’s deed to

complete the transaction of transfer-ring ownership of the sun to her from – well, the universe. Try finding two guys with orange vests and surveyor’s sticks to take that job. At a return dis-tance of 260,000,000 kilometres and a mileage allowance of 52 cents per ki-lometre, that trip alone is going to cost her $135,200,000.

Maintenance costs for the sun could be as high as 10 billion a year because nobody expects that thing to rotate on its axis for several million years with-out some sort of replacement part or lube job.

And what about a little thing we like to call the “parallel universe?” What if there’s another sun out there? That could cut her revenue in half.

No, owning the sun is not all light-ness and dark tans.

The temperature of the sun’s surface is about 6,000 degrees Celsius so set-ting up an office there, even one with heavy drapes on the windows is out of the question. The intense heat is often compared to that of hell itself, so An-geles may create another business ven-ture – offering the sun as final destina-tion for Roman Catholics looking for an alternative to purgatory. She could pitch it as the “Ultimate Sunspot Des-tination.”

Angeles Duran appears to be a very determined woman and she takes her newly acquired ownership of this flam-


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ing planet of fire quite seriously. You can laugh all you want but if suddenly the earth goes dark and very, very cold because you didn’t pay your sun bill, it won’t be so funny then, will it? I know what you’re thinking but no, it’ll be way worse than hydro’s frequent power failures.

All this is not new. Dennis Hope, a Nevada businessman, laid claim to the moon years ago and his Lunar Embassy Corporation has since sold plots of land on the moon to 3.7 million people who quite likely talk aloud when they think.

Normally, I’m not prone to one-upmanship, but in these two cases of hostile takeovers of celestial bodies, I have made an exception. Yesterday, I marched into my lawyer’s office with a deed, complete with a detailed map and high definition photos of the uni-verse. John Tuck has duly ratified my documents and filed them with not just any court but the world court. I now own the Milky Way. That includes our entire galaxy of 100 billion stars and all planets, meteors, that golf ball Alan Shepard shanked on the surface of the moon and the Mars bar.

Don’t worry; I’m not going to bill you. The money Angeles Duran and Dennis Hope owe me for back taxes and unpaid rent from the sun and the moon will see me nicely into retirement.

They have 30 days to make satisfac-tory payment arrangements with me before I start foreclosure proceedings. And I think they’ll pay up. Nobody wants to see the world’s economic meltdown spread to outer space.

Oh, and as the proud owner of our galaxy, I’m immediately restoring Plu-to to planet status; it’s the earth I’m not so sure about.

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Arts & Crafts

Weaving is believed to be one of the first crafts practised by hu-mans and, while no

one knows exactly when people start-ed to weave, woven fabrics that date back more than 9,000 years have been authenticated. Evidence of the practice of interlacing lengths of fibre to make fab-rics have been found all over the world and weaving was instrumental in the de-velopment of early clothing and items people used in their everyday lives.

In today’s fast paced world of elec-tronic gadgets, many people are sur-prised and reassured to know that a group of weavers keeps this ancient tradition alive. Silver Harbour Senior Centre in North Vancouver specializes in arts and crafts – calligraphy, dressmaking, paper tole, silk painting and stained glass are some of the programs offered at the centre – along with weaving. A room dedicated to craft activities holds the centerpiece of 22 looms. There is no other space like it in the Lower Mainland.

Pat Pender, 76, is one of 20 current group members. “I have been weaving [at Silver Harbour Senior Centre] for 15 years or more,” she says.

Pat has lived in Vancouver for more than half a century, though she claims her love for weaving stems from her Austra-lian roots.

“I taught elementary school in Van-couver and took my teacher training in Australia. One of the things they taught us was weaving,” says Pat. “Through my life, I have been a knitter, but weaving is something I always wanted to try. Even-tually, I joined the Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guild and started going to their meetings.”

Pat signed up for a weaving course at the Place des Arts in Coquitlam, one of the only places for adults in the Lower Mainland to take instruction in the art. In the library there, she met two women who told her about the room full of looms at Silver Harbour.

“I joined and found there are won-derful people there,” says Pat. “I re-ally enjoy weaving. It’s something for your hands and for your brain. If you don’t get your project set up correctly, at the start, it is not going to work out well. There is a challenge to weaving and I really thrive on it.”

A few years ago, the group had an in-jection of new talent. When the commu-nity centre in West Vancouver underwent a major construction project, the weavers wound up with limited space and decided to explore their options.

“We were losing our space and heard about the group at Silver Harbour,” says Chris Robertson, 68. “We decided to join them and brought our equipment with us. They told us that we were a real shot in the arm to the group.”

Chris is a retired Vancouver school-teacher who likes to keep busy.

“I was doing some forward planning for retirement and searched around for classes,” she says. “I certainly enjoy it. The most important thing about weav-ing is what it does for the minds and dexterity. I truly believe it keeps us out of the hospital wards, the care facilities and the doctor’s office. I feel it is important in helping keep the brain active.”

One part of weaving is that the project needs to stay on the loom until it is fin-ished, which makes it difficult to move the equipment around. The weaving group at Silver Harbour is fortunate to have some great space dedicated to their activity, so their looms remain in place at all times. Linda Ramsden, the Arts and Crafts Co-ordinator at the centre says, “In the early days of the centre, back in the 1970s, the co-ordinator asked someone at Capilano College if they would like to start a weaving group. She agreed to take

Threads of LifeBY KEVIN MCKAY

Above, Chris (seated) with (l. to r.) Hjordis, Bar-bara and Marlene. Lower left, Hjordis works on her piece.

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it on for a while and wound up launching what would become a very successful program.”

Over the years, the centre accumulated many looms, mostly through the support of the service clubs on the North Shore. A volunteer provides all the instruction and none of the partici-pants do it to make money. “They all weave for the pure joy of it,” says Linda.

Toby Smith is the volunteer instructor. Chris says, “Toby has been weaving longer than most of us and is our mentor, especially for the newer members to the group. She provides guided assistance as opposed to lessons and we all work to-gether. Weaving is an excellent activity because you have to use your brains and your fine motor skills. The work itself is quite solitary, so it is quite a privilege to be able to participate in the group where we can discuss our projects with each other and get the help we need. We are a very social group and have lunch and coffee together.”

Silver Harbour weavers primarily use two types of looms: there are 18 table looms and four floor looms. On a table loom, weavers use only their hands to weave. On the floor loom, treadles (foot pedals) move the warp threads up and down while the weaver passes the shuttle back and forth with his or her hands. The floor loom allows one to get into a rhythm and can move quickly.

One of the weavers uses a rigid heddle, which consists of a wooden frame and is a very simple piece of equipment. The great thing about this loom is that it is portable, so she can work on the same project both at the centre and at home.

There are a number of different variables to consider while weaving: the weaver needs to decide what to make; what fab-rics to use; the colour scheme; what the pattern will be; and even more.

“Helping others plan their project is part of the fun,” says Chris. “You need to find colours that go together and consider the different fibres and patterns. I like playing with different fi-bres and enjoy the fun of it. Most of my projects wind up striped because I like to line up the coloured threads and weave.”

Pat adds, “It’s exciting to look around and see what the oth-ers are doing and think that you want to do that too. When I travel around the world, I always seek people making rugs and carpets. There are many wonderful people weaving and making amazing art, and when you meet these people you realize you have something in common, no matter where they are from.”

The Silver Harbour weavers create items to give away, for their own use and to donate to the craft sales at the centre. One of the highlights is when a weaver finishes working on a project.

“Once I got used to weaving, I started to anticipate what my finished project would look like,” says Chris. “Cutting it off the loom is a big moment. It is very exciting and everyone crowds around to see how the finished project looks.”

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Scams to Watch for in 2011At 82 years young, Margaret Nielsen’s macular degen-eration has stolen most of her sight and hearing aids crank up the audio but none of this interferes with the love of her life (husband excluded) – volunteering.

She’s been sharing her time, love and skills for 42 years and has no plans for retiring.

Born in Victoria, Margaret attended St. Ann’s Academy and graduated in 1945 from Oak Bay High School. Her volunteer ca-reer began at the age of 12, when, during the war, her mother took her along each Saturday to the Salvation Army canteen where they spent the day stripping and making up beds.

In 1948, she became Mrs. Jack Nielsen. Today, Jack remains her biggest supporter and, himself, a volunteer at Kennedy House Senior Centre, where he has served as board treasurer since 1995.

When the couple’s first child, a daughter, was born with Ce-rebral Palsy, Margaret became involved in the Cerebral Palsy As-sociation, where as president of the parent’s association she spent many hours visiting parents of children with the disability. In her spare time, she took part in fundraising by organizing dances.

Four more children followed and when her eldest son be-came a boy scout, so did Margaret, once again volunteering her time and energy.

In 1964, the family moved to Vancouver just as illegal drugs were hitting the streets. By 1968, Margaret, with the help of three other parents, formed a group called Parents Anonymous to coun-sel troubled parents and to champion her “war against drug deal-ers.” To accomplish her goal, she worked closely with police and politicians in panel discussions and public speaking forums. It wasn’t long before she was sent to Ottawa to speak to cabinet min-isters and the head of the R.C.M.P. She even sipped tea with Mrs. Diefenbaker, who showed her all the gifts they had be given while the then Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took a dip in his pool.

Margaret’s celebrity spread and, from 1968 to 1972, she and Jack fostered 90 troubled teenagers. While the stays usu-ally only lasted up to two weeks, it was often long enough to get the kids off the streets and into more permanent facilities. She prides herself with rescuing two girls, one from heroin and the other from a Valium addiction.

In 1975, Margaret’s skills were solicited once again when she was appointed by the Family Court in Delta to sit on the bench under the Protection of the Children Act to decide the fate of at-risk kids. Much to her dismay, the government representative dis-solved this appointment in 1976.

After a short breather, Margaret enrolled in a pastoral-care training course, graduated as a chaplain associate and volunteered in grief counselling at Surrey Memorial Hospital and the Surrey

Hospice Society. She is no longer a chaplain but finds her knowl-edge and skills useful when talking to seniors at Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre, where she attends to her daily duties, including entertaining at concerts, visiting shut-ins, playing the piano, sing-ing in the choir, serving as a board member, social director, instruc-tional programs director, vice-president and director at large.

She fulfilled her dream of building a memorial wall to honour Delta’s veterans and says, “The most satisfaction has been seeing 1,000-plus people attending the ceremony at the Memorial Wall at the Social Heart Plaza in North Delta, remembering those who have given their lives and those who put their lives on the line ev-ery day for our community.”

Lately, Margaret has been involved in the expansion of Kennedy House to include a computer room, more seating in the cafeteria and a backstage green room. Today, she’s buzzing about Kennedy in the maroon T-shirt she designed, stopping to talk to house members and greeting anyone walking through the door with her warm demeanour.

Not only has Margaret spent the better part of her life volun-teering, but she has also passed the torch to her children, grand-children and great-grandchildren, who give their time trying to keep up with grandma.

At home, she proudly displays her Queen’s Golden Jubilee and Year of the Volunteer medals along with a well-read scrap-book of accomplishments.

“One must enjoy every day you have here, take time to listen to others and see the best in them. Remember you are here for a purpose, to serve others. It will give you a warm and fuzzy feeling.”

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Social Media ScamsCommon elements of social media scams include offers

of cash, a prize, or a gift to entice people to participate; you are asked to become a fan or follower and to invite others on your contact lists to get involved; personal information is required to participate; you are lured away from the original social media site to outside web links.

TIP: Like with most scams always be aware of unsolic-ited opportunities to win cash, a prize or take advantage of a too-good-to-be-true opportunity.

Pyramid SchemesWatch for investments or business opportunities that ap-

pear lucrative and primarily focus on recruiting new inves-tors or distributors, rather than selling a product or service.

TIP: Don’t get involved in any investment or business op-portunity until you have researched it thoroughly and had it reviewed by your lawyer or accountant.

Charitable Disaster ScamsScammers use fake phone numbers, websites, emails,

text messages and social media accounts to lure donors into giving away money and personal information.

TIP: Do research before donating to any organization. When possible, seek out the charity to which you wish to donate. Always independently verify the charity’s name, address and contact information, and learn as much as you can about the charity before you make a donation.

For a more detailed description of the top scams that im-pact consumers and tips to protect you, visit mbc.bbb.org

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Scams to Watch for in 2011

Each year, the Better Business Bureau compiles a list of scams that have the greatest potential impact on consumers across British Columbia. The following is a brief summary of what we

predict will be the top scams to watch for and some simple tips to protect you from becoming a victim.

Door-to-Door Sales BBB received numerous complaints in 2010 about door-

to-door salespeople who used aggressive sales tactics to bully consumers into purchases.

TIP: Don’t fall victim to high-pressure sales tactics. If you are uncomfortable with a salesperson, ask him or her to leave your home, and call the police if the person does not leave immediately.

Auto Rental ScamsCar rental companies often employ a number of tactics

to increase your invoice. When it comes to auto rentals be aware of overcharges related to insurance, gas, damages and additional fees.

TIP: Before purchasing rental insurance from the auto rental company check your pre-existing coverage via your personal auto insurance, credit card coverage and home or life insurance policies.

OverchargesWatch for tiny overcharges on all your receipts, bank and

credit card statements. Scammers quickly make a small for-tune robbing you pennies or dollars at a time.

TIP: Review your bank and credit card statements on a monthly basis and compare your statements with your pur-chase receipts to make sure they match.

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Maggie Ip shares her secret to an active, healthy lifestyle. “Get busy and get involved.” This is a philosophy she has fervently followed as the founding chair of S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

(United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society) and present chair of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation. Her com-munity commitment also included work as Vancouver City Councillor in the ’90s and recognition as one of the 2010 Top 25 Canadian Immigrants.

Maggie’s own personal history follows along closely with the growth of the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. organization. In the early 1970s, Vancouver saw a large number of immigrants com-ing from Hong Kong as part of the opening up of Canada’s immigration policy. “Many immigrants at that time were young and came to B.C. with higher education, skills and ex-perience,” says Maggie. “But even with education, skills and money they were having a really difficult time adjusting and getting into the job market or into business.”

Educated in Canada, Maggie graduated from Ottawa University with a master’s degree in education. In 1970, her

Volunteering

Building Cultural Bridges BY BEV YAWORSKI

family moved from Ottawa to Vancouver. “My daughter was only one year old, and I was expecting my second, so I didn’t work outside of the home,” she says. “I was a house-wife, but soon found it difficult to stay home, so I started to do volunteer work for the YWCA. While working there, the Y in Vancouver’s Chinatown area began to get many new immigrants asking for help.”

Maggie, her fellow volunteers and YWCA staff soon dis-covered that new immigrants asked questions that needed good information – not always easy to get with language and cultural barriers. “We saw a lot of families who were very frustrated. They came with hope, they had skills and experi-ence, wanting to contribute and settle down in Canada and often they were not able to contribute,” says Maggie.

“I always consider that if Canada claims to be a country of immigrants and if immigrants are one of our resources, then we don’t want to waste our resources,” she says. “Not only Canada will lose. For many new immigrants, they uprooted themselves and family and came with hope, and then are disappointed and disillusioned. So, it becomes a lose/lose situation.”

Maggie subsequently helped the Y organize bilingual im-migrant orientation sessions. As months progressed, it be-came clear that some families needed more professional help and a comprehensive service that could not be provided by volunteers. So, in the early 1970s, Maggie and a group of vol-unteers decided to form a society and apply for government funding to hire professional staff and create a more perma-nent immigrant service organization.

“Fifteen community volunteers sat down and each contrib-uted $10 – because $150 was needed back then to register as a charity,” recalls Maggie. In 1973, they held their first society election and general meeting, where Maggie was elected as founding chairperson. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. was born. Things moved quickly. “We got a government grant, rented a small 300-square-foot office on Main Street near Hastings, rolled up our sleeves, painted floors and walls, got donated furniture, hired staff and opened the doors. People flocked to the office!”

It wasn’t long before they had to move to a larger space to provide classrooms and playrooms to accommodate staff and clients. Today, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. serves a multilingual commu-nity with 27 languages and 22 offices in the Vancouver Lower Mainland. They also provide pre-settlement immigration help at their offices in Seoul, Shanghai and Taipei.

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Building Cultural Bridges tures two bridges. “S.U.C.C.E.S.S. serves as a bridge by helping new immigrants to cross the bridge to the mainstream, and also helps the mainstream cross our bridge to a better understanding of each other,” she says. “We need to help the new immigrant adjust into the communi-ty and, at the same time, the community must also be open-minded, receptive and understanding of new immigrants. It’s a two-way communication.”

About 15 years ago, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. started to see families having difficulty looking after their elderly parents. “In the Chinese culture, it is still tradition that the family look after the elders,” says Maggie.

“Most immigrant families, though, have both husband and wife work-ing two or three jobs with long hours. How can they look after a senior who might need special help? As we see the population aging, there is a definite need. When we did try to refer seniors to nursing homes, some Chinese elders, due to language and culture would say, ‘I can’t eat that food.’ They would also be lonely. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. decided to help by providing seniors housing and programs respecting language, culture, food, diet, etc. of the elders.”

The agency now offers a multitude of services for seniors: a multilevel care home, assisted living housing, adult daycare, visitation volunteers and a “campus of care” programming. Se-niors can learn English, dance, exercise, paint, sing, make new friends and grow old with grace.

Maggie often visits the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Austin Harris Seniors Residence in Ste-veston and sings in a musical group that performs for residents. This residence provides unique hospitality services including two meals a day offered with both a Western and Chinese menu.

In many ways, “success” is a guiding light in Maggie’s lifework. As a multi-cultural leader, visionary and volunteer extraordinaire, she was honoured with a National Volunteer Award – a commu-nity commitment that helped to create one of Canada’s most respected immi-grant service organizations.


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Sue Malcolm’s life is full of music. Since she was a child, brought up in a musical family, Sue has been singing and playing an instrument. She learned to sing while harmonizing in the

school choir and listening to the Beatles. Both her mother and grandmother were singers, but she was the only family member who pursued music as a lifelong vocation.

During the ’60s, when she was a 20-year-old single moth-er raising two children, Sue took up playing the guitar and became involved with the popular folk music scene. Later, she learned to play the banjo in the “frailing” style, popular with old-time mountain music. She’s been playing bluegrass music for 30 years, and helped found the Pacific Bluegrass and Heritage Society. Now, she conducts bluegrass work-shops for the Society and teaches others how to play in her popular Slow Pitch Jam Workshops. Her workshops at the an-nual British Columbia Bluegrass Festival held at the Sorrento Centre, Shuswap Lake have attracted as many as 100 players at a time. She also teaches beginner adult guitar classes for the School Board Continuing Education programs.

Bluegrass may sound easy, she explains, but it’s a compli-cated three-chord structure, played fast with improvised solos and tight harmony. Sue is a master of this technique.

“I love motivating people and helping them discover how much fun it is to play music,” she says.

In addition to playing traditional bluegrass tunes, Sue also writes her own music. Her first solo CD Highrise Lonesome was recorded with some of her colleagues from the Sorrento Bluegrass Camp. Over the past 30 years, Sue has played with several different bands and her current group, Highrise Lone-some is composed of several original band members. They perform regularly at local venues.

An attractive, youthful woman with a vibrant personality, Sue spent her career in counselling, as a youth worker with inner city troubled teens. She found music was a successful way of reaching the kids. Using her counselling skills, she introduced a novel concept in the schools in 1995 with her “Buddy System” program. She and her partner Paul Norton formed the West Coast Violence Prevention Society, a non-profit society that did fundraising to support this program, using music to teach children, Kindergarten to Grade 3 how to get in touch with their feelings.

“I created the program based on the curriculum taught in schools as it is meant to support this curriculum,” she says.

She used children’s songs she wrote such as “Take a Deep Breath” to teach children how to calm down and control their anger. She hopes to continue this very successful program in the coming year, performing in solo classroom presentations.

Sue has also used her music as therapy by playing at the Crossroads Hospice in Port Moody where she eventually worked full time as co-ordinator of the bereavement program. Working here made her realize the importance of following dreams while there’s still the chance.

In spite of having retired two years ago at the age of 61, Sue is as busy as ever. Besides performing, writing and re-cording music, she co-hosts “In the Pines,” a radio show on CoOp Radio. She also enjoys visual arts and hopes she’ll have time in her busy music schedule to start painting again. She is actively involved in exercise programs, yoga and cycling. In 2009 and 2010, she did the 220km-ride from Vancouver to Seattle, raising $6,000 for cancer research in the Ride to Con-quer Cancer, in memory of her mother and brother who both died of the disease. Her future plans include volunteering at the Vancouver Cancer Agency, bringing her music to the pal-liative ward as well as to patients undergoing chemotherapy who must spend long hours in the chair.

“Everything I do I seem to gravitate toward a community development focus,” says Sue. “I really enjoy getting people together and helping to inspire them to do things together, whether at a workshop or camp, band or night school class. I think music makes the world a better place.”

For more information, visit Sue Malcolm’s website: www.suemalcolm.com

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prove. However, my ex persists in try-ing to keep tabs on everything I’m do-ing, which is extremely annoying. If I date a new lady friend, my ex manages to meet her also and soon my new re-lationship is over. I feel discouraged about the whole situation.

Can you help me? –R.L.

Dear R.L.:You sound depressed about your life,

and with good reason. Living with this form of harassment can wear you down both mentally and physically.

This is a serious situation. You need to get a lawyer, preferably one well recommended to help you as soon as possible. Your ex will be warned to stop such interference in your life or she will face court action. This may be enough to change her behaviour. If not, then you must proceed with the court action, however distasteful to you. The important goal for you is to maintain control of your own life. Start the process immediately.

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Dear Goldie:Well, another Christmas has passed

and left many good memories.Unfortunately, in our big family,

there are a few individuals who never seem happy or satisfied with their lot in life. There are no financial or health problems evident, but they always find some small thing to complain about when we get together for our Christmas celebration. Perhaps this is common in many large families?

We are fortunate as seniors to still have family members to celebrate with. The sounds of voices, laughter and mu-sic will linger in our memories long af-ter the Christmas season and help us to get through another year. –D.C.

Dear D.C.:I’m sure your family is not alone in

having complainers. Some people seem to thrive on negative attitudes. Fortu-nately, in most families, the positive outnumber the negative by far.

Most seniors have memories of Christmas as that time when all family members made a great effort to come home for the holidays. There were won-derful reunions and such an overpower-ing aroma in homes of cakes, cookies and pies mingling with sage dressing in a huge roasting turkey. Christmas mu-sic and singing filled the air. It truly was a time of love and goodwill toward one another. Hopefully, such memories will continue to live on and hold families to-gether in the coming years.

Dear Goldie:Seven years ago, my wife and I di-

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According to the famous Wilkins retrospective study in 1999, falls are a leading cause of morbid-

ity and mortality in older Canadians: the sixth leading cause of death. One in three people over 65 years old and one in two aged 85 or over fall each year, and about half of these falls in-volve fractures.

Non-fatal falls cause physical trau-ma, fear of walking and physical degeneration from immobility, loss of independence and having to leave one’s home. This im-pacts the victim, the family, the health-care system and society. Falls cost Canadians $3 billion annually. Fall prevention would be a major step toward enhancing mobility, letting people stay in their homes while saving health-care costs. Avoiding falls and accidents are a key part of remaining active.

Conventional medicine mainly of-fers damage control in the form of drugs (with their side-effects), surgery (often with serious consequences) and physical therapies. None of these measures address the source of falling. A revolutionary approach, however, stops the cause of falling; the funda-mental factors that underlie it relates to the health of the sensory-motor (in-put-output) areas of the brain. This ap-proach intervenes only at the level of the brain and works as long as there is no actual brain tissue damage, but only neural pathway dysfunction.

Both fall proneness and falling re-flect the same condition dominated by a loss of postural balance always combined with many other physical,

cognitive, emotional, intellectual and behavioural symptoms. These include pain, stiffness, vertigo, balance and dizziness disorders, transient blurry vision, anxiety, mental concentration and short-term memory issues, co-or-dination issues, sleep disorders and fatigue, depression/irritability, and re-duced tolerance for other sensory data (for example, hypersensitivities), lead-ing to a loss of balance control.

Loss of equilibrium can occur either instantly, as when tripping, having a stroke, or gradually over a long period. Emotional or physical trauma can cause acute or lasting, deteriorating changes in the brain’s ability to process incom-ing stimuli and adapt appropriately by maintaining upright orientation. This slow decline in the brain’s functional ability to adapt and effectively sustain vertical posture and gait appears in the form of fall proneness.

The usefulness of posture, gait, and balance testing is typically overlooked in Canada for the general population other than professional athletes or other specialized occupations such as pilots and astronauts. However, de-tailed assessments identify difficulties, which allow safe standing and fall pre-vention.

The causes of difficulty in walking,

decreased range of motion, weakness, slower reaction time in co-ordination and body adjustments, increased stiff-ness and muscles spasms/tension, pos-tural pain, a decrease in brain process-ing ability are all assessed and then can be addressed with specific treatments.

The important message here, which bears repeating, is that fall proneness does not begin with the feet; it begins within the central nervous system, that

is, the brain and spinal cord. Con-ventional medicine treats the pe-ripheral symptoms and may not address the cause, which is brain dysfunction. The good news is that there is a way of stopping fall proneness by restoring the func-tion of the brain controls in the relevant areas.

Other than the traditional ex-ternal factors (e.g. improved lighting, grab bars, non-slip floors, removing obstacles, added personal assistance, etc.) that are typically incorporated by occupational therapists, home care workers and/or family members, hav-ing an active lifestyle significantly decreases the risk of falls (assuming a healthy brain).

Underlying this is training in senso-ry motor skills with a qualified health-care provider and incorporating basic balance enhancing activities such as:

• Walking as briskly as possible while breathing deeply, alternating with slow pace walks in the same session. The ideal is to walk at least one hour every day. The time can be broken up through-out the day and still be effective. Studies show that walking regularly decreases falls by 50 per cent.

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BY PHILIPPE A. SOUVESTRE, MD & MICK MATHEUSIK, M.SC

Health & Wellness

The usefulness of posture, gait, and balance testing is typically overlooked in Canada for the

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CORRECTION NOTICEIn the January issue, the article KEEP ON TREKKING

did not correctly attribute the source of the information pro-vided to the writer by the interviewee. We wish to correct this oversight as it was not the intention of Senior Living or the writer to publish information that came from a source and not attribute it properly. We apologize to Urban Poling Inc. whose information was used by the interviewee with-out their permission or knowledge.

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• Stretching increases both flexibility and strength; ide-ally 20 minutes, two times per day. Head, neck, and back (bending), hips, ankles, shoulders, arms – rotation, flexion, extension.

• Attention to posture – for example, avoid lying in bed with head bent against pillow watching TV. Be aware to stand up straight.

• Enhance space perception – activities such as walking, dancing, breathing, stretching and tai chi are all effective.

• Exercise visual perception – move eyes open, and then closed, in all directions of vision. This can be done sit-ting, standing, or lying down. Eye direction affects balance lean.

• Promote efficient breathing – deep breathing exercises while walking or other activity. Increases heart-lung perfor-mance and improves oxygen in the blood, which also assists with brain function.

• Drink plenty of water or other non-diuretic fluids. The brain contains a higher percentage of water than the rest of the body.

• Exercise the mind with precision. Puzzles, building models, activities requiring fine-tune dexterity, sequencing and playing or even listening to music are examples.

This is a multi-system approach as the balance control system is complex. Balance control requires a combination of both physical and mental function. The important point is to select the level of activities that are compatible with one’s abilities. Remember the old adage of “Use it or lose it.”

If these lifestyle tips do not improve balance health, then there may be an underlying health condition that needs to be addressed.

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N ot all pole walkers are Scandinavian. In our group of happy wanderers, there is a retired Blue Bomb-er defenceman, a neurologist, some pensioned teachers, nurses, artists and a few who are still walking towards their gold card.We meet three mornings a week for our one to one-and-a-half hour treks averaging five kilometres for two of the days, and aim towards 10km on Fridays as we build up stamina for the 10K Sun Run held each year in Vancouver.Residing in the South Surrey/White Rock areas affords us choices. We can choose to walk by the sea, through parks, urban forests and around local neighbourhoods. In fact, we have so many options that on Fridays we pick three areas from a deck of “location cards.” We walk, talk and share jokes, rain or shine. Our social club is growing faster than the cottontails on our woodland trails.

Nordic walking, or urban poling, as it is also known, works the whole body; walkers breathe deeper, and both the upper and lower body gets plenty of action.Janna Nicholson is the Community Recreation Co-ordinator from the White Rock Community Centre and believes in the benefits of urban poling.“It is easy to do and requires little investment cost in equip-ment,” she says. “Participants need comfortable, supportive walking shoes (waterproof, if walking in wet inclement weath-er) and Nordic walking poles.”The sport takes walkers outside and encourages exploration of the community. It is both a cardiovascular exercise (works heart, lungs and circulatory system) and it provides toning for all the upper body muscles, which are not used in regular walking.

“Beneficial for all ages, urban poling provides a full workout of both legs and upper body, it improves posture and it provides stability as there are four points of contact with the ground,” says Janna. “In addition, it helps keep the crossing reflex (opposite leg to arm) strong, which helps with balance and co-ordination.”

The three Ps is often referred to as the process: plant, push and propel. One pole is placed or “planted” on the ground and the arm is then used to “push” down on the pole, which “pro-pels” the opposite leg forward. The process is then repeated with the opposite arm, leg, and so on. The pace is similar to walking and it resembles cross-country skiing.Double poling is used to provide more intensity and can be considered as a component of interval training. When both arms are used to plant, push and propel one leg forward, double the amount of muscles are used in the upper body and hence the workout intensity is increased.The technique is very similar to cross-country skiing; in fact,

skiers use it for their training during summer, which is how the exercise first became popular.So, get yourself a good pair of walking shoes, a partner to keep you motivated and a pair of poles. If you are just beginning and not wanting to spend much, check out a local thrift shop for some ski poles, cut them off at the bottom for a customized fit. Stand up straight with elbows bent at right angle to the ground. Little rubber booties can be purchased at a pharmacy to add extra spring to each step. A light backpack for car keys, water, gloves and cellphone is also a good idea along with a waterproof breathable jacket for those days that keep B.C. green and beautiful.Our group’s goal is the annual Sun Run, but you can log in each walk and cross Canada or trek around the world, just keep on trekking.

For more information, visit the Canadian Nordic Walking Association’s website: www.canadianordicwalking.com

KEEP ON TREKKINGBY DEE WALMSLEY

Nordic walkers train for their annual event – the Vancouver 10k Sun Run (below).

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my ears, nearly giving me whiplash!Still, no matter what my body might

say, my mind is still that of a twenty-odd year old. (My wife just told me to put more emphasis on the “odd.”)

I still feel young. To prove it, the other day I chewed gum for over five minutes. If my dentures hadn’t stuck, I would have gone even longer!

Youth, indeed, is wasted on the young. They don’t even know they have it. They will only know they “had” it. They don’t appreciate it because they have nothing to compare it to. But we who are older, we know what being young is all about. Our bodies have passed through its pastures, while our minds remain there to frolic in the sun. I mentioned this to someone young the other day and they looked at me as though I were a stranger from another planet. But that’s okay!

There are the young young and the old young. I’m of the latter. I may go to bed earlier than the young young, but I also get up far earlier than they do and have a good head start on the day.

My mind is limber even if my body is an overgrown slug. And in my mind, I can still have all the adventures I’ve always had. Even great adventures! My body can lean back, relax, and watch my mind scale the mountain of dreams, and shout from the summit. Then it can whisper, “Well done,” and once again doze off to remember the times when it could keep up with the mind and all things were equal under the sun.

At one time, I wore tapered jeans. I was what the kids today might call “hot.” Now, if I try to wear tapered jeans, I look like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube. I’m not hot; I’m singed and burned.

I saw a pair of slacks advertised on television recently. The young guy modelling them was svelte and assured – much like my mind. So, I decided to get a pair. When the clerk in the men’s clothing store measured my waist, I heard him gasp! Then he excused him-self, gathered with the other clerks and started to speak in whispers.

At one time, this rebellious body wore a dozen chains around its neck and wore a shirt open to the navel. I tried it once more, in private, the other day – shirt open, chains on – to relive old memories. But I couldn’t see my navel. I’m not even sure I still have one. And when I tried to toss my long hair and bald head, like I used to do to impress the girls, the chains flew around and cut

Refl ections THEN & NOW

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BY GIPP FORSTER

I have asked myself this question over and over again: “Why is it when a person gets beyond 60 or 70 years they get their sec-

ond wind and finally get used to be-ing young?” It hardly seems fair to be classed as old, instead.

I feel no older than about 24. But my body refuses to go along with me. It doesn’t seem right that my mind is will-ing to boogie until 2 or 3 a.m., but my body insists I be in bed by 9 p.m.

I used to be able to go up and down stairs two or three at a time. My mind can still do it. It’s the body that won’t co-operate. I tried one-and-a-half steps recently and ended up with a charley horse. My mind leaps to the top of the stairs, while my body is still struggling on the second step.

When long hair on men was “in,” mine was falling out! Now, it seems, being bald is in fashion. I’m kind of caught between bald and long. (I’m so lonely.)

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