Retirement

If there’s one thing that COVID has revealed, it’s the contradictory nature of aging at this moment in time. Never have the words of Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” rung more true. For many seniors, the pandemic has truly been a horror…

Admit it. You’re probably giving it some thought, if not daydreaming of the day in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future when you can take off again and travel out into the world. In fact, this week was the newly anointed holiday, “National Plan For Vacation Day!” Did you celebrate? Pick a…

The British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis once said, “Documentaries shouldn’t just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.” If that’s the case, then two recent documentaries featuring older adults reveal a duality of what aging is like in this day and age. On…

For a while now there’s been a growing awareness that reaching “retirement age” doesn’t necessarily mean we can or will actually “retire”. Even before COVID, many of us could not afford to retire when we reached our mid-60s because we had insufficient savings to allow us to go on without…

In “normal” times, this would be the time of year many of us make holiday or new year’s travel plans. However, given that there is no more “normal,” many are wondering whether and how we can make plans to travel around the world again, either domestically or even internationally. Well,…

The deadly impact of the coronavirus, especially among long term care residents, has certainly highlighted a fact of life that many of us would like to deny or avoid: that is, the difficult decision to have a loved one or even yourself live in such a facility. Infection control measures…