Hi folks

I'm figuring that some of you wise folks have been through either losing your drivers license or supporting someone through the loss.

I recognize that there are likely significant differences in access to resources and also impact depending on where one lives and your living arrangements.

I wonder if you can help me gather some of the possibilities..ie, side benefits.

Someone very close to me has decided to undergo surgery to improve appearance.  And I'm totally struggling with the message and meaning behind that choice.  To an extent, it's not my business - and I've not voiced my opinion to this person.  But then again, it's hard to pretend it hasn't happened and I'm not sure how to explain it to my two young girls... 

The Toronto Star ran an investigative piece on Friday Oct 1, about a "retirement" home in Toronto.  It was, to say the least, a horror story.

Seniors at risk in retirement home, investigation reveals & Critics demand retirement home probe

Today's Globe is filled with the dire predictions of the Parlimentary Budget Office about the future costs of the aging boomers.  The following is quoted from the Globe and Mail

Budgets, boomers and ticking time bombs
Joe Friesen
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
 

HOW CAN WE FIX IT?

Friends

It is with sad news that I share with you that BusyMom's Dad passed this morning.

She and the family were with him, and as she has indicated to me, it was a holy moment.

Many of the wondercafe community have walked with Busymom on-line, as her father rallied time & again from the stroke, and shared the ways they were communicating.  We have been blessed by her offering of her life stories to us.

Please keep the Busygang in your thoughts and prayers.

I guess this is social. I can't think of where else to put it.

Years ago, supermarkets sold something called blue steak. This was steak that had aged (rotted) a proper time so that it actually became somewhat blue. And it was delicious. I understand that such sale is now illegal.

It is possible to age steak on your own? If so, where, how and for how long?

In my email box today - my friends know me way too well

AAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS...PLEASE READ!

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

Be nice to others because...

If you are talking to someone, and they say, "i can't find the phone" and they talk about looking for it, and then..they go "oh...wait..i'm talking on it"...should you be concerned?

What about if they do it more than once...ie two phone calls in approx 2 weeks, the same action happens...state they are looking for a phone, then realize, they are talking on it.

Does it make a difference if I tell you they are over 80?