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Author Archives: Mark Venning
Aging Alone & Creating Commune-Part 1
Over the years with friends of my age cohort, conversation has often wandered to the question of what we would do if we found ourselves “aging alone”. This came up even if we were in a couple, with the proposition … Continue reading
Home Health Care:Longevity & Sounds of the Beating Drummond
Perhaps the recent Don Drummond Ontario Economic Report is well timed with respect to our health care costs and longevity. Delivery of more cost efficient home care to an aging population is for sure prudent, as most older people prefer … Continue reading
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Tagged aging population, health care, home care, longevity
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Longevity and the Gen Y Promise
Does the current strain on Gen Y employment have much to do with Boomers deciding to work longer and not retire on schedule? I wonder how busy the myth factory is on this issue. Yes I am concerned for the … Continue reading
Longevity Thinking Replaces Retirement
Perhaps this repetition of mine – longevity thinking replaces retirement thinking – falls on our minds like a wet snow. It quickly dissolves under just enough heat from old frames of reference. February brings out as many commercials for “Retirement … Continue reading
Later Life & the Prospect of Work
One annual journey I make in January is to a Canadian Career Development conference in Ottawa – Cannexus. http://cannexus.ca This year I was asked to deliver a presentation on the subject of the “older worker”. For a start that phrase … Continue reading
Old Age Security:The Rant is Afire
Well since last week’s posting, Mr. Flaherty’s “chosen path” on Canada’s OAS reform may not be totally clear - but the rant is afire! As I said before, with the aging demographics in Canada being what they are, something will have … Continue reading
Financing Longevity:Moving the Goalposts
Moving the goalposts for those over 65-on Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) seems to be one of those prickly calibrations that hasn’t exactly taken the mob to the street in protest. Well not yet, like in … Continue reading
For What Joe Asks–the Promise of Longevity?
The gifts of conversation are falling my way gracefully at this start to 2012. Like – what is the promise of longevity in the 21st century? Always my opening question. And along comes an article by Joe Schlesinger this week … Continue reading
Jane Fonda Joins Longevity Revolution
In the opening minute of the TED Talk video “Life’s Third Act” Jane Fonda wraps herself in the flag of the Longevity Revolution and she’s onboard as a very clear voice for the movement. This is a good investment of … Continue reading
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Chasing Cures:The Aging Fix Is In
Welcome to 2012. As always as years turn over, we get past year reviews and new year predictions, prescriptions and promises for better futures. So it quickly fed my mind on the subject of longevity for this first new year’s … Continue reading