Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

  Study on Aging (CLSA) Its Purpose and Its Promise Have you ever received a phone call or been invited to answer questions about your health, memory, habits, or social life, and thought, “Is this really worth my time?” If you’re between the ages of about 50 and...

Celebrate Older Persons

    International Day of OlderPersons – October 1 Mind:  Beyond Tokenism “The number of people over 60 has more than doubled in the past thirty years to 1.2 billion. By 2050, another 900 million older persons will be a part of our human family. This is a...

Intergenerational Learning – What Works?

        A New Era in Intergenerational Learning – What Works? In a previous edition of Maturity Matters, we looked at some creative and impactful intergenerational programs that brought together different generations in new and innovative ways. We...

World Senior Citizen’s Day

Clearing the Air On How We Celebrate World Senior Citizen’s Day As I reflected on the possible topics for this month’s article, I thought about the annual and current health threats from the smoke of the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout our country right now. ...

Heatwave:

When Summer Heats Up!  My husband and I live on the West Coast in Canada.  By Canadian standards, we enjoy relatively temperate weather throughout the year – not significantly cold in the winter, and not unbearably hot in the summer…until the last few years.  While,...