“Listen to your elder’s advice. Not because they are always right, but because they have more experience of being wrong.” -Anonymous Old people offer advice to spare younger people making wrong decisions that will cause them pain. We have the best of intentions—we want to help them make better choices that… Read More »Giving Advice—Who Really Wants it?
Millions of thoughts and images pop in and out of our minds every second of every day. These are, or soon will be our memories—some recent and some from long ago. As we grow older, long-ago memories become dimmer, and some may take on the qualities of a dream. We… Read More »The Value of Our Memories
When does the word “Dear” mean something other than, “I like you and want to convey my affection.” Possibly when you are a small, old person, standing in flats because your feet hurt too much to wear heels, making you look even smaller and frailer than you really are, and much… Read More »Don’t Call Me “Dear”!
If you are old, and you have lived in a house with the same partner for most of your adult life, you are part of this interesting Statcan 2011 statistic: The majority of Canadians (65.4%) over 65 lived as part of a couple Of men 65-69, 66.5% lived in single-detached… Read More »Where We Live is Everything (Well Almost)
Why “The Lucky Few”, Are the Richest Generation (and Why Nobody Else is Happy About It) Think The Lucky Few are not the Richest Generation? Here are three reasons we disagree: The median net worth for Canadian seniors 65 and over is $460,700 ($182,500 for Canadians under 44 years old) The poverty… Read More »Why “The Lucky Few” Are the Richest Generation
They had the best of all worlds. How will we remember them? They belong to the generation of people born between 1926 and 1945. The world events that most defined them were the Great Depression of 1929-1939 and World War II. They occupied a unique place in history: They watched their parents… Read More »The Lucky Few—Where Are They Now?
The lucky few are those of us born between 1926 and 1945. If that includes you, WWI bypassed you, and you came of age just in time to miss WWII. But that’s only part of it. You were the first generation to be indulged as children, you became teenagers just as… Read More »Who Are the Lucky Few?
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