Last year Bayshore hiked across the country for the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), hitting the milestone of $1 million raised over the past seven years. We’re at it again. For the eighth consecutive year, Bayshore offices coast-to-coast will be lacing up and walking on Sunday May 5 to raise money for local palliative [...]
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When the telephone rings, we expect to hear our friends or family on the other end. But on occasion, it’s a telemarketer trying to push some kind of product onto us. We need to be more telemarketer savvy and recognize when a situation doesn’t feel right. The other week I attended a community health fair [...]
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Many seniors drive cars well into their 80s and even their 90s. In 2009, 3.25 million people over age 65 had a driver’s licence, of which about 200,000 were over age 85, according to Statistics Canada. This week I presented my regular monthly lifestyle luncheon talk to the seniors of the Franklin Horner Community Centre. [...]
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After meeting and talking with Karen Pivnick, founder of TopCat Relocation & Transition Solutions, I was compelled to write this blog on hoarding – a misunderstood condition that affects so many seniors today. According to Karen, hoarding is the collection of an excessive amount of things that the individual might consider to be quite important [...]
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In November, my mother and I went on a road trip to visit my daughter at school in South Carolina. That’s when I learned about my mother’s latest health state of affairs – urinary incontinence. By coincidence, a few days later I received a call from a listener of the Here’s to Your Health radio [...]
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