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Power of 60+

Volunteering with Meals on Wheels

July 19, 2010 Connection and Contribution
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By Kelly Neufeld
One need not be wealthy or highly trained to make a charitable contribution to one’s community. While some seniors have medical training and can assist in refugee camps in Uganda there are many other opportunities closer to home. Everyone has the capacity to help in some manner.
The ability to drive is the [...]

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Doctors without Borders: Where Age is an Advantage

June 28, 2010 Connection and Contribution
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Working as a mental health officer in Sudan and Uganda
By Claudia Blume
When Catherine McGarva trained to be a nurse and midwife in the 1960s, she dreamed of going overseas and using her skills for humanitarian work. But she never found the time. She got married, had four children and a busy career in [...]

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The adventure of a lifetime on a budget

June 10, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Traveling 12 countries in 12 Months
By Kelly Neufeld
For seniors, the number one goal after retirement is travel. While retirement frees up your time to travel, finances can be an issue. But what if you could travel the world, for the amount it would cost you to live at home? Sound impossible? It’s not, Rick and [...]

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Nothing Can Stop 80-year Old From Competing

May 17, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Jean Duncan has always been active. In 2003, while in her 70’s she was regularly participating in yoga, biking and aerobics. Then at the family Boxing Day dinner her granddaughter began talking about the Vancouver Sun Run, an annual 10 kilometer race with over 50,000 participants. She loved it so much that she encouraged [...]

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7 Steps to Goal Setting

May 14, 2010 Business
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By Fiona Walsh
3 traits of successful people

Future-oriented: clear vision of what they would like to be or do in the future
Goal-oriented: know what they want to accomplish in the short, medium, and long term
Action-oriented: they take action quickly.

7 Steps to Goal Setting:
1. Decide what you want in specific areas of your life. Write [...]

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The 9 Secrets of Betty White’s Success

April 12, 2010 Business
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By Carolyn Anderson MD
At 88 years old, Betty White is more popular than ever. In the past year, she has appeared in a major film, The Proposal, starred in a popular Super Bowl ad for Snickers and has been featured on numerous popular talk shows. Thanks to a Facebook Fan page with over 500,000 members, [...]

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Volunteer Opportunities with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind

April 8, 2010 Connection and Contribution
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Can you imagine not being able to read your favorite book or magazine? Not being able to hop in the car for a doctor visit or just to get some groceries? These are the realities faced by people with vision loss every day.

The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) offers volunteers a chance [...]

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Dr. Carolyn’s Top 10 Business Books

April 5, 2010 Business
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The founder of Impowerage, Carolyn Anderson is a doctor who owns a thriving eye surgery practice, private surgery clinic, and a real-estate development company. She is writing a book for seniors and developing courses for other doctors who want to replicate her success.
While her medical training came from UBC and Stanford University, her business training [...]

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Barbara Boldt: A Colorful Life

April 2, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Barbara Boldt is not someone who paints as a hobby, she is a painter. That is not to say that she doesn’t enjoy painting but as her only source of income, painting is her full-time job. At 79, she paints as often as she can in between promoting her painting and her daily activities.
In [...]

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The Art of Art Therapy

March 5, 2010 Connection and Contribution
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Healing images for cancer patients

By Jennifer Cox
Although art therapy has been a discipline practiced by many professionals for decades, only recently has it become a “recognized” method of therapy. In fact, Concordia University in Montreal is the only school in the country to offer full professional, master’s level training in creative arts therapies.
Art therapy [...]

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