Encouraging Social Inclusion: Faith Communities as Neighbourhood Hubs
Guest Blog by Pat Spadafora I am excited about my upcoming conversation with representatives of faith communities at Grace Lutheran [...]
Assertiveness: Advocacy for Self and Others
Ellen Ryan In my research career, I identified the use of baby-talk with frail older adults (Elder Speak), perhaps intended to be [...]
Intergenerational Reading Circle Workshop
A summer course in literary gerontology brought students together with older adults to form an intergenerational reading circle. Blog post by [...]
McMaster Symbiosis HomeSharing
For many seniors with spare rooms in their homes, a common desire is to make better use of that empty space. With [...]
Jury Rigging Affordable Granny Flats
When my mom moved in with her Parkinsonism, blindness and short-term memory loss we had to Jury-rig in a hurry. A handyman, [...]
One Shared House – Co-living
When she was 5 years old Irene Pereyra’s mom answered an ad: “Community looking for parent with 5 year old child”. There [...]
Japan’s Caring Tickets
I first read about this uniquely Japanese system of mutual care support called Fureai Kippu or "Caring Tickets" in a book on [...]
Co-housing Project for Low-income Renters
In March of 2016 while visiting family in Sebastopol California I dropped by Petaluma Avenue Homes, a Cohousing project featured in a [...]
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 [...]
Meet the housemates with a 68 year age gap
Two generations back many of us still had family structures we counted on, people we looked out for, out of duty and [...]