Cannabis Microdosing – This therapy is not for stoners
Doctors are advising patients with chronic pain, anxiety and insomnia to use cannabis with both THC and CBD, with specific doses that [...]
How 144 seniors, their staff and guests, weathered Hurricane Irma in a “Green House”
When in 2017 hurricane Irma hit, John Knox Village opened its doors to become a safe haven for staff, spouses, family members, [...]
Pathways to Homelessness and Home Again
Aged persons who are isolated, live alone, and lack economic stability and family or social supports are at great risk for becoming [...]
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Oasis. A new senior driven model for social and health supports located within the buildings they live in, started in Kingston, now [...]
Downsizing Without Getting Down
Growing up with anti-materialistic parents my sister and I never had a cluttered life. Moving often we were restricted in the amount [...]
What Not to Say
After we lose a loved one, some of us withdraw because we’re “not very good company”. We are depressed and lonely ..and [...]
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities – the OASIS Model
I recently received an invitation to an OpenLab webinar series about innovative approaches to aging-in-place. The first, “Taking Charge: New models for [...]
Downsizing and Decluttering the Swedish Way
Downsizing, decluttering, whatever you call ridding your life of excess stuff, not only frees your space up it frees your time Margareta [...]
Meals on Wheels Punjabi Style
This month I, along with 14 other Unitarian congregants, visited Hamilton Ontario’s Baba Budha Ji Gursikh Temple. I had no idea I was [...]
Minister for loneliness appointed
Are you old enough to remember when people were not so lonely? Do you recall when things changed? Many of us older [...]