CO-OWNERSHIP: An Emerging Housing Alternative for Older Adults
By Judy Shepalo, Co-Leader of Hamilton Aging in Community and member of Cohousing Hamilton. Contact: [email protected] Think Golden Girls where four [...]
Ethical Wills and Legacy Letters
Written By Loretta Jaunzarins An ordinary will is for your valuables; an ethical will is for your values. ~ Judith Favor [...]
Meaningful Leisure
Written by Pastor Loretta Jaunzarins Summer is upon us. The season of leisure has arrived! The philosophy of leisure has become [...]
Friendship
Written By Ellen Ryan Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. ~ Paulo Coelho A high point [...]
Spirit of Late-Life Friendships
Written By Loretta Jaunzarins If there is one thing the current pandemic has taught us, it is the importance of being [...]
Aging Brains: $12-million Grant to a McMaster Longitudinal Study on Brain Health
Written by Mahnoor Akram Author Introduction: My name is Mahnoor Akram and I am a fourth-year Biology-Physiology student at McMaster University. [...]
Where Housing Meets Health: Seniors’ Social Isolation
Written by Justine Levesque What is Social isolation? There are varying definitions of social isolation in the literature, but the World [...]
Resilient Aging and Innovative Housing Solutions
Written By Judy Shepalo In October 2020, through the Hamilton Public Library, Ellen Ryan and I conducted a 4-week course on [...]
Hope and Resilience During the Pandemic
Purple leaf sand cherry- Prunus x cistena Written by: Stephanie Wickens Finding ways to [...]
Muslim Seniors: Challenges and Positive Aging Experiences
Muslim Seniors: Challenges and Positive Aging Experiences by Dr. Abdelfettah Elkchirid and Jahan Zeb As published in the Hamilton Spectator [...]