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  • A guide to your new e-ride

    If you’re looking for a fun or an environmentally friendly way to get around, there’s now a plethora of electric transportation available.

  • On my way out

    You’re a senior or almost one. You’ve lived your life as a straight person, maybe with a spouse, children and grandchildren. Your friends know you as straight. So does your community. But that’s not who you are.

  • The great house swap

    The proposal was intriguing: trade your house for one in Northern Ireland for a couple of weeks at a great cost savings to both parties. The visitors from Ulster would treat Doug Ross’s Nepean home as if it were their own and Ross and his wife at the time would be expected to do the same.

  • Caregiving’s unsung heroes

    Brian Hills lost his wife of 46 years in fewer than five months — the hardest four months of his life. He and his beloved wife Sam had just returned from Cuba when she got the diagnosis — her third bout of breast cancer, and this one had metastasized.

Past Issue

Winter
2024

The inaugural issue of Sage60 came together slowly and then quickly. The idea for this digital ’zine came a while back, but the Association’s 60th anniversary offered the perfect inspiration to finally produce our inaugural issue. Given that we celebrated 60 years of advocacy throughout 2023, honouring the achievements of Claude Edwards, fondly remembered as the founding father of the Association and an indefatigable negotiator, was a no-brainer. In addition to looking back on our early years, readers will also find an exploration of later-in-life spirituality, a frank investigation of intermittent fasting with Jason Fung, Canadian nephrologist and New York Times best-selling author of The Obesity Code, and a discussion about what steps parents of dependent adult children need to consider as they age. 

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Jason Fung.

The facts on fasting

The concept of intermittent fasting is everywhere, but is it sensible? Sage60 talks to the founder of this kind of fasting about how and why it works.

Peter Simpson
Brenda Hildebrand and her son Rejean Brandt.

Securing the future

There are a number of resources and strategies for aging parents who have children with disabilities whose futures they want to ensure are safe and positive.

Marg Bruineman
Claude Edwards.

A founding father of Federal Retirees

Claude Edwards was elected to the job of president three times and leaves a lasting legacy for retirees through his significant on-the-job victories.

Jennifer Campbell
Sue Lefebvre.

Post-retirement purpose

Seniors are increasingly turning to spirituality, either through mindfulness or religion, to give meaning to their lives.

Jennifer Campbell