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Housing Options for Seniors
Royce Shook · A great resource for those who are retiring and are thinking of changing where they live is a resource called the Housing Options for Seniors. This publication was produced by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging and written by Holly Robinson, Associate Staff Direct ...
A Senior’s Guide to Stay Connected – Part 3
Royce Shook · If you know a senior who wants to learn to use social media videos, then send them the links so they can learn how to stay in touch with loved ones using their phones, tablets, iPads, laptop or desktop. · SERIES 3: TECH SAVVY SENIORS · The next series is called Tech Savvy Senior ...
A Guide for staying connect for seniors: Part 1
Royce Shook · You can learn to use Skype, Facebook, Messenger, YouTube, Pinterest and your iPad. This post and the next four provides links to some training videos that are easy to follow and not intimidating. · Over the next four posts, I will be looking at resources for seniors to help them ...
Housing Options for Seniors
Royce Shook · Another topic that is important but I have not spent a lot of time on is the issue of housing options for seniors. · Most seniors live independently but not all own their own homes. Many seniors who live independently may rent. In BC there appear to be not many options for senio ...
Funding for Volunteer Services helping Seniors
Royce Shook · The second issue that I think is important and have not addressed is the issue of how programs which help seniors are funded. Any seniors, as well as others in society and in government, believe that seniors and society would be well serviced by seniors living at home. The home s ...
A portrait of seniors in Canada
Royce Shook · A Portrait of Seniors published in 2006 written by Martin Turcotte and Grant Schellenberg and published by Stats Canada gives some interesting insights into Canadian Seniors. Here are some insights that I found interesting. · Many important elements are identified as favouring t ...
Nutrition for Seniors
Donald 🐝 Grandy PN · Forgetting things, feeling incapable, grappling with loneliness, and maybe not enjoying daily life? Aging is inevitable, but these symptoms don’t have to be. Whether you’re noticing them in yourself, or know someone who is, here’s what you need to know about the importance of lif ...
Will you drive, after 65?
Royce Shook · Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. · Boomers still drive after age 65, according to Stats Canada 79% of men and 44% of women, use their cars as their main source of transportation. Public Transportation is not an opti ...
Think back
Royce Shook · Think back to a happy time a really, really happy time in your life. Go back as far as it takes, to a time when you felt so light you thought you might float. · I have many of these times in my memory, each with a different focus. I am sure you have as well. Have you noticed · th ...
Technology and Ageing
Royce Shook · I was giving a workshop on Technology and Seniors to a group of seniors in North Vancouver and in the audience were a number of grade 6 and 7 students who were taking part in an intergenerational project. I started the workshop by talking about the fact that seniors can learn ju ...
Independence and Seniors
Royce Shook · In many cases, the word independence for seniors is not even what matters most. But rather the words autonomy and self-determination are more important. · To have a discussion of independence for senior, we really need to talk about what it means to be independent because indepen ...
Issues for Seniors
Royce Shook · The following is from my Blog, I am a Sonic Boomer not a Senior, where I have been, for the past six years, discussing issues facing Boomers. · Aging seniors and their families are faced by the complexity of issues facing the elderly. Not only do older people have to contend with ...
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