Tag: Retirement Lifestyle

Plan for a Productive Winter

Making a worthwhile contribution to the community is part of Freedoms DNA, so it's hardly surprising that his new service is one that guarantees the safety and respect of senior citizens and parents wanting the best for their children.

Retirement used to be the cue to close the curtains on life as you knew it; nowadays retirement is largely embraced as a time for personal growth through new opportunities.

With increasing longevity, particularly over the past century, our lives can roughly be divided into thirds. The growing up years, working years, and the ageing years.

John Patterson, a New Zealand Positive Ageing Ambassador, has done much to promote positive ageing throughout the country and, in particular, in his own community of Christchurch.

Bruce Kaye is an active supporter of Abbeyfield, which provides living accommodations for older people who want affordability, security, companionship and independent living

For the past four years my partner, Annie Henry, and I have been profiling people in the community who are ageing well.

We have a vehicle Warrant of Fitness, debate the need for a boaties and parental warrant of fitness, but what about a life warrant of fitness?

Whether they receive domestic or personal care support in their own homes, live independently in a retirement village, or are residents in rest home or hospital, older people connected to Presbyterian Support Otago are encouraged and supported to be as ac

The cost of altering an existing house is considerably higher than designing one with the future in mind - studies in the United Kingdom demonstrate this - yet many people still believe otherwise.