Three days before Christmas. December 22, 1808 – Vienna. The first performance of what may be indisputably, the most memorable musical monument ever created. Half way into what was by all accounts, a seat squirming four-hour concert programme, the first four notes, in a four-movement symphony freed – and for two hundred and ten years,
This is an original post from December 2016 on the website Planet Longevity which will be reconstituted as part of Change Rangers on Jan.1 2019 For an inaugural year 2016, the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) at Ryerson University in Toronto looks to have set the stage well for its future vision. Closing with
Further to last week’s post, Age-Friendly Communities: Status Update, Halton Region, as promised I took a longer read of the recent 2018 WHO report titled The Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities: Looking back over the last decade, looking forward to the next. For a brief historical reminder, the Global Network formed in 2010
The WHO Global Age-friendly Cities and Communities Network formed in 2010 as an evolutionary response to the 2007 publication of the WHO Age-friendly Cities Guide, which in itself took some sixteen years to develop from The United Nations Principles for Older Persons Resolution A/RES/46/91 For some time, I have tracked and learned a lot about
This is an original post from November 2017 on the website Planet Longevity which will be reconstituted as part of Change Rangers on Jan.1 2019 As with most subjects in our times, the subject of ageing in place is diverse, multi-faceted or if you will, so broad in its narrative for anyone to speak about
This is an original post from February 2017 on the website Planet Longevity which will be reconstituted as part of Change Rangers on Jan.1 2019 Often – if you are open to it – messages from the world of the arts, (arts in any form), that arrive seemingly in a singular way can actually deliver