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It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss1, but most do not seek treatment right away. In fact, the average person with hearing loss will wait ten years before seeking help2.

This is because at the beginning stages of hearing loss people often find they can “get by” without help, however as the problem worsens this becomes increasingly harder to do. For some people this loss of clarity is only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the car, but for others it makes listening a struggle throughout the entire day. By studying people who have difficulty hearing in noise or with television, we hope to identify key factors impacting these difficulties and further understand their influence on the treatment process.

University hearing study seeks participants.Connect Hearing, with hearing researcher Professor Kathy Pichora-Fuller at the University of Toronto, seeks participants who are over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids for a hearing study investigating factors that can influence better hearing. All participants will have a hearing test provided at no charge and if appropriate, the clinician may discuss hearing rehabilitation options including hearing aids. Qualifying participants may also receive a demo of the latest hearing technology. The data collected from this study will be used to further our understanding of hearing loss and improve life-changing hearing healthcare across Canada.Why participate in the hearing study?Hearing problems typically result from damage to the ear and researchers have spent decades

* Pichora-Fuller, M. K. (2016). How social psychological factors may modulate auditory and cognitive functioning during listening. Ear and Hearing, 37, 92S-100S. † Study participants must be over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids. No fees and no purchase necessary. Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC. VAC, WCB accepted. 1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886. 2. National Institutes of Health. (2010).

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trying to understand the biology behind hearing loss. More importantly, researchers now realize the need to better understand how hearing loss affects your everyday life*. In this new hearing study, Professor Pichora-Fuller and her team are trying to find out how people learn to live with hearing loss and how new solutions could help these people take action sooner and live life more fully.

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you remember the early nineteen fifties and enjoying the ambiance of a delicious meal at Vancouver’s Georgia Hotel. Recently, I came across a menu cover of

a dinner menu, The Georgia Hotel dated Thursday, April tenth, nineteen fifty two. Given the following exercise in food for thought (or thought for food) and how so much has changed, it might be healthier to sit down first before reading on. If the grandchildren happen to be around, they’ll never believe the prices!

Let’s begin with desserts. A dish of lime sherbert cost ten cents, a western apple pie, fifteen cents and a chocolate sundae, twenty five cents. Their seashore salad that included lettuce, crab meat, tuna, sardines, shredded carrots, quartered tomatoes, a hardboiled egg plus Lorenzo dressing, was a whopping ninety cents. Getting hungry yet? Onion soup, cheese crouton, fifteen cents.

Now let’s tuck in to the meals. They all included, for no extra charge, tea, coffee, rolls and butter plus buttered carrots or broccoli cream sauce, steamed or rissole pota-toes. The price for broiled tenderloin steak, with mush-rooms, two dollars and seventy five cents. Just imagine what you can get at the mall food court today for two dollars and seventy five cents! In nineteen fifty two at this luxurious restaurant at the Georgia, a BC salmon steak with parsley butter was one dollar. The final example of sheer nostalgic culinary torture was their A one roast prime ribs of beef complete dinner, including Yorkshire pudding for an outrageous one dollar and sev-enty five cents.

Moving ahead to Vancouver 1960’s memories, do you recall those far out years? The following rhyming song may provoke thought and reflection from a differ-ent perspective.

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many were thumbing rides in the nineteen sixties Vancouver. Today that land is a vehicle for ever skyrock-eting revenue. Now, in the year 2018, makes an interest-ing time thinking things over. Like, what ever happened to flower power and that new Age of Aquarius. Seems it’s turned idealistically a bit sour. Sure makes this old goat kind of curious. It appears we’ve become more ‘success oriented’ than ever before. All those dreams and now some of us compare that with what today’s society has been anointed.

Even Gastown doesn’t look the same anymore. Downtown Granville, what you ‘Seymour’, ‘Howe’ everything is exponentially more commercial. Better stop at this point, as one wouldn’t appear to be express-ing something a tad controversial.

TRAVELLING BC NOSTALGIAIn the old days I used to do some travelling, publish-

ing scenic postcards, and selling everything from cast iron frying pans to transistor radios to retailers in small BC communities. Some of the old lodgings might bring back a few memories for readers.

Campbell River and Discovery Inn, Ucluelet and The Thornton Motel. All those Wickaninish, Long Beach and Tofino memories keep drifting in. Victoria’s Crystal Gardens pool, you may remember well. With my parents in the early nineteen fifties, it was twenty four dollars at the Empress Hotel in the summer for a room. Doing sales in the nineteen sixties, staying at the Churchill Hotel in Victoria was about six dollars for a room per night. Those days played a kind of slower paced tune. The way of life today is totally out of sight! Anybody out there remember the Barclay Hotel in Port Alberni. A coffee in those days everywhere in BC was a dime. We’ve come a long way compared to today’s high speed journey. All those amazing ‘improvements’ in a relatively short space of time.

Let’s end this September issue with the magic of yesterday’s show biz, etc.

WHEN WE WERE KIDSThe Greatest Show On Earth, with Jimmy Stewart

and Betty Hutton. My, what today those old film memo-ries are worth, put the nineteen fifties right back on the button. There was no business like show biziness, writ-ten by Irving Berlin, of course. Back to the old days

those movies can send. They even ‘trigger’ Dale Evans and Roy Rogers’ horse and the original Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton and later on On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando. Life those days in ret-rospect seem magic, like the circus and the PNE’s spun candy cotton. We played with pick up sticks, not Nintendo.

1950’S MEMORIESAs school kids we had sixteen mm projectors, often

Bell and Howell. Like magic it seemed, watching mov-ing pictures on white sheets. In our local movie theatre, Hollywood movies like The Bowery Boys and actors like William Powell. In the classroom, ‘the thrill’ of National Film Board education flicks were our ‘exciting treats’. More than often the film would break. The poor teacher or principal was faced with the patience of using splicing glue. Many of us ‘young academics’ thought that was just great! With a little bit of luck, time would run out missing out the delights of ink wells, straight nibbed pens. Plus none of that blotter roll routine we would otherwise have to do.

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the beautiful brickwork on the new building and the glass on the TD Explore Zone, it is hard to believe the change in one year. The Photo Mural Wall will be a highlight for me. It will look amazing and will epitomize what the Museum of Surrey’s new vision is all about: Surrey people past and present. It will feature over 2,000 photographs submitted by the public, special event photos, and a host of Surrey Archives’ collection images. Q) Do you have family ties to Surrey history? If so, how does that impact your view of the project? A) My husband grew up in Surrey, and his entire family still lives here. My father-in-law says “Surrey is the best city in the world!” He is so proud of how it has grown into a world-class city. The Museum expansion makes him particularly excited because he has somewhere free, exciting and local to bring my son.Q) Any MoS data you would specifically like to mention?A) Although the Museum of Surrey has been closed for a year, staff continued to connect by taking artifacts and activities into the community. We reached over 22,000 people at events, in classrooms, and at seniors' facilities. Offsite exhibits at Guilford Town Centre, the Surrey School Board office, Crescent Beach Swim Club, and other venues attracted thousands.Q) When will the Anniedale School and 1881 Town Hall join the Anderson Cabin on the site? A) Anniedale School and the 1881 Town Hall arrive onsite in early September. The preservation of such significant heritage buildings is a huge 'win'. All three heritage buildings will play a monumental role in Museum of Surrey programming o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Anniedale School, for instance, will create immersive experiences for elementary school-aged children. In the Anderson Cabin the chamber pot inspires

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By Rick MillikanSeeking a

Vancouver adventure, pedal pal Fred and I join Cycle City Tours.

Assigned appropriate bicycles and helmets, guide Nick leads us with six other cyclists down Hornby’s busy bicycle lane to Seaside Greenway. After pedalling between the new west and east convention centers, Nick stops at a waterfront park and extolls this bikeway. “…Following the shoreline, cyclists will enjoy 28 uninterrupted scenic kilometers.”

Our route winds pleasantly along scenic Coal Harbor into Stanley Park. Pausing at another viewpoint, he touts some world-renowned architecture. “These lofty glass buildings represent Vancouverism, a design accommodating topside condos, middle floor hotels and bottom level shops.” He also notes settings used in popular movies, earning Vancouver’s nickname: Hollywood North.

Nick’s degree in anthropology is evident. Opposite Deadman Island, he interestingly recounts how First Nations once placed their dearly departed on its high tree branches. And at Totem Park, he points out later used mortuary pole, complete with platform.

“This collection of poles represents several B.C. coastal First Nations. Most welcomed visitors, like that short longhouse post. Its raven identifies the clan. Several tell stories. Three have legendary thunderbirds, which caused storms fearsome eyes blinking lightning,” explains Nick. “That unpainted pole includes Rosa, last native woman born in

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Stanley Park. And her son carved this memorial.” Rather than continue under Lion’s Gate Bridge

on the seawall, we push our bicycles up a woodsy secondary trail. During a breather, Nick discusses the forest environment beside a huge cedar stump with thriving seedlings. At Beaver Lake, he recounts park workers’ clever dealings with beaver dam projects, while wood ducks paddle among pond lilies blooming in vibrant purple. Beyond the lake Nick points out a lofty cedar. “That’s Cedric! Stanley Park is about 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and more natural, home to old-growth evergreens like Cedric. And look, there’s an eagle nesting atop that nearby fir.” Coasting out of the forest, we skirt third beach and soon exit Stanley Park.

Passing English Bay’s popular art installation A-maze-ing Laughter, we pause to admire the inukshuk created to welcome 2010 Winter Olympics visitors. Looking across the water, Nick helps us visualize Seaside Greenway winding toward distant Spanish Banks.

After a short wait under Art Deco Burrard Bridge, a colourful electric ferry takes us to Granville Island, our lunch stop. There, Fred and I buy some Mexican food at a Public Market stall. While savouring enchiladas in the sunny courtyard, a busker entertains belting out golden oldies.

Spinning onward along False Creek, I learn why its low-rise community is so attractive. It’s zoned 20% parkland. Passing the Science Center’s silvery geodesic dome and onto Quebec Street, we enter North America’s third largest Chinatown.

Golden dragons top red street signs brandishing

names in English and Chinese. A statue of China’s first president, Sun Yat Sen stands outside his namesake gardens, a legacy from Vancouver’s 1986 World’s Fair. Inside, we behold its wondrous rockery, moon bridges, exotic plants and koi-filled ponds. Outside, ginkgo trees and brightly painted buildings line Chinatown’s main street. In the distance stands the revamped Millennium Gate.

Our last stop is in historic Gastown, where everyone gathers around a large bronze sculpture of Gassy Jack atop a whiskey keg. “This is Vancouver’s legendary founder! When his New Westminster saloon burned down, a log mill owner invited Jack to relocate here. Arriving in a boat with a big keg of whiskey and native wife, he promised workers all they could drink for building his new saloon.” Says Nick. “Thus Vancouver began…and partied.” Our tour proves the perfect way to learn about this city’s delightful culture, natural environment and fascinating history.

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One show onlySunday September 30th at 2pm

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By Lenora A. Hayman. Premier Exhibitions, from June 23, 2018-Jan 11, 2019, have brought their international travelling show Ti-tanic: The Artifact Exhibition to Lipont Place, across the street from the Aberdeen Station on the Canada Line. I was told their exhibit has toured Paris, Las Ve-gas, Dublin, Cape Town and Melbourne. The White Star Line R.M.S.Titanic hit an iceberg, 106 years ago on April 14, 1912 and sank, killing 1,523 people. As the Titanic was sinking, Bruce Ismay, Direc-tor of White Star Line, jumped into a lifeboat, while scores of women and children were still being evacu-ated. Upon being rescued by Carpathia, Ismay re-quested a private cabin, and was not seen for the en-tire journey to New York. Of course, he was scorned for the remainder of his life! Amongst the 120 objects recovered from the wreck site, are a gold hair barrette, a Dutch clog orna-ment and China plates. A First Class Elkington Silver Plate bread dish has an extra-wide rim, allowing the passing and serving of bread, without a table com-panion touching the contents. On checking the menus. I noticed 3rd Class had 2 main courses, 2nd Class, 4 courses, and 1st Class, 7 main courses, including roast squab, duckling, filet mignon and paté de foie gras. Third Class slept in bunk beds, while First Class

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With winter approaching, many seniors are mak-ing plans for a cruise in the sun or a vacation in Palm Springs, but two local seniors with 53 years of mar-riage under their belt, are busy rehearsing new music and comedy routines for an upcoming tour of 40 con-cert dates which will take them all over California and Arizona in January, February & March, Bernie and Red are the couple in question, origi-nally from Liverpool in England, they moved to BC in the mid 70’s and began performing, first in the Lower mainland and then throughout Western Canada. Many of our readers will have enjoyed them at one of the numerous neighbourhood pubs or service clubs at which they performed back then. They went on to tour the world via their cruise ship engagements, they were featured entertainers at “The Unicorn” for the 6 months of Expo 86 and they continue performing today, with an average of 60 concerts a year. They have a rare local concert shortly, at the Mats-qui Centennial Theatre in Abbotsford. It’s on Sunday September 30th at 2pm and is a charity fundraiser for the Abbotsford Go Go’s, a group who are dedicated to raising funds to help grandmothers in Africa who are raising grandchildren who have been orphaned. Tickets for the event are $15 and can be bought on line at Eventbrite, https://www.eventbrite.ca/d/canada--abbotsford/bernieand-redor you can call Deb at 604-855-0472. You can catch up with all news related to Bernie and Red, their dozen CD releases & their autobiog-raphy/songbook “Our Story”, by visiting their web-site www.bernieandred.com or their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/bernieandred

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Racing fans will get a lot of track action this month as the crossover season begins. Not only will thoroughbred racing continue at Hastings in Vancouver, with some of the biggest stake races of the season, but harness racing returns to Fraser Downs in Cloverdale for its winter session. The standardbreds get back into action in mid-Sep-tember and continue their racing until April 2019. The biggest race of the month locally will be on September 8 at Hastings when the top three-year-olds compete in the annual British Columbia Derby. Expect a competitive field for this pres-tigious race -- and a number of other major stake races that day, including the Delta Colleen for fil-lies and mares. That race will feature last year's champion filly Daz Lin Dawn. As a three-year-old Daz Lin Dawn was nothing short of astonish-ing: winning seven consecutive stake races and sweeping four major awards as Horse of the Year in both the B.C. Bred & Open Divisions, as well as Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in both divi-sions. In a recent news release from Hastings Race-course, Paul Caravetta of the ownership group that guided the filly's path to success, said they have learned a lot from her recent attempts at tracks in the U.S. Caravetta and Alberta-based partners Dennis Dale and Ed Walsh, opted to test the waters in the U.S. market this year and after three disappointing starts Daz Lin Dawn came back home ready to make a late-season impact on the Hastings stakes scene. After finishing fourth in the $50,000 Emerald

Distaff at Emerald Downs on Aug. 12, Daz Lin Dawn was shipped back to Hastings and she is expected to compete in a number of races this fall, including the CTHS Sales Stake for 3 and 4 year old fillies, the Delta Colleen, and the Balleri-na (Oct. 8). Daz Lin Dawn will be in the hands of trainers John and Tammy Snow, taking over from Seattle-based Blaine Wright who has worked in concert with the Snows in the past. In other racing news at Hastings, a true local champion was retired recently without much fan-fare. Multiple stakes winner Modern ran his last race on July 15 in the 58th running of the Lieuten-ant Governors. True to his character over seven years of racing, Modern performed gallantly as he battled to finish second to a charging Calgary Caper. “Modern was one of those horses that got bet-ter with age,” says Dino Condilenios, two-time leading trainer at Hastings who has been on the scene 25 years. “He showed up every time. You had to beat him. It was as simple as that.” Swift Thoroughbreds Inc. ownership team that includes Mark and Naudia Mache, along with Ho-ratio and Jackie Kemeny, made the decision at the conclusion of the racing season last year to start Modern a few times in 2018 and ease him into the good life he deserved after providing them with so many great memories. While now retired jockey Frank Fuentes rode him in his early years, it was the combination of Modern and Richard Hamel that scored eight stakes victories including the George Royal three years running in 2015, 2016 and 2017. A Ken-tucky-bred, Modern completed his distinguished career with $410,222 in earnings, winning 11 of his 36 starts. Clearly a highlight for Condilenios and his owners was Modern winning the Swift Thorough-breds Inaugural that was introduced in 2017, the year Modern was named BC Champion Sprinter and Champion Older Male (Open Division) at the annual Thoroughbreds Awards Dinner. In typical classy fashion, the Swift Thorough-breds group has provided Modern with comfort-able retirement surroundings at Southlands Rid-ing Club in Vancouver, a renowned urban-based equestrian community. Mark and Naudia will be taking parental pride in watching daughter Chloe replacing Hamel as Modern’s new favourite rider.

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A place for seniors and their families to speak out, share stories and ask questions.

Acts of kindness: The Cab Ride was sent in to me by Mr. Hart ten years

ago. I still love it!Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. When I

arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these cir-cumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, and then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. This pas-senger might be someone who needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself.

So I walked to the door and knocked. "Just a minute", answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 80s stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware. "Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, and then returned to assist the woman.

She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept thanking me for my kindness. "It's noth-ing", I told her. "I just try to treat my passengers the way would want my mother treated". "Oh, you're such a good boy", she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, and then asked, "Could you drive through down-town?" "It's not the shortest way," I answered quickly.

"Oh, I don't mind," she said. "I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice". I looked in the rearview mirror. Her eyes were glistening. "I don't have any family left," she continued. "The doctor says I don't have very long." I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. "What route would you like me to take?" I asked.

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighbor-hood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furni-ture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.

As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, "I'm tired. Let's go now." We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a drive-way that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her. I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair. "How much do I owe you?" she asked, reach-ing into her purse. "Nothing," I said. "You have to make a living," she answered.

"There are other passengers," I responded. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. "You gave an old woman a little moment of joy," she said. "Thank you." I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life. I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?

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On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life. We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

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3. Pay a visit to an older friend who lives alone, in a retirement community or in the hospital.

4. Surprise an elderly neighbor with a home-cooked or baked item.

5. Offer to do grocery shopping for an older friend or neighbor.

6. Take an older person’s dog for a walk or offer to clean the litter box.

7. Download Big Band music to a CD, make cop-ies and give them to older neighbors. Donate copies to senior centers, nursing homes or retirement communities.

8. Take your laptop or iPad when you visit a senior. Use the technology to reference items from his or her past that come up in conversation.

9. Give a dog a bone. Leave a bag of higher quality pet food or treats outside the door of an elderly pet owner.

10. Surprise a neighbor by planting flowers to brighten his or her day and summer.

11. Wash an older person’s car, just because.12. Offer to check and install new batteries in an

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15. Volunteer to take an older person who no longer drives to church or synagogue.

16. If you’re tech-savvy, spend time with a senior to show him or her how to use a computer— either his or her own or at a public computer lab. Demonstrate how to surf the web or send an email.

17. Help a senior friend sort his or her mail to help make managing bills, personal mail and junk mail less of a chore.

18. Spend an afternoon talking with an older person and listening to his or her music.

19. Rake a senior’s yard, prune back bushes and pick up twigs and branches.

20. Take a neighbor’s trash to the curb or take the newspaper to his or her door.

21. Read the newspaper—even over the telephone—to a senior with poor eyesight.

22. Set up a bird feeder outside an older person’s window at his or her home or retirement community. Stop by often to refill.

23. Invite your senior neighbor over for a cup of tea, a holiday meal or summer cook-out.

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about the world around you.28. Make up a basket of fragrant soaps, hand creams

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29. Spend some time with the guys. Take an older man to a high school basketball game or drop by and watch a football game on TV. Ask him to share his sports’ days.

30. Offer to take an older person on a Sunday after-noon drive around town or in the neighborhood where he or she grew up.

31. Ask older relatives or neighbors to share their life stories. Offer to record the memories on video or tape to preserve for other family members.

32. Give an older loved one a hug to warm up the heart and a smile.

33. Seek advice from a senior. They have a lot of wisdom and experiences to impart.

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35. On a rainy day, offer to escort an older adult to his or her car with an umbrella.

36. Make her day. Compliment a senior woman’s dress or hairstyle.

37. Drop off gently used magazines, books, puzzles and games to your local senior center.

38. Help an older person at the store by reaching an item on the top or bottom shelf.

39. Deliver flowers or meals to seniors from your church or temple who are ill or are in the hospital.

40. Become a pen-pal. Socialization is key to a healthy life. Be an outlet for the senior to share his or her insights on a topic or simply how the day was spent.

41. Look an elderly gentleman in the eye and greet him with a sincere “good day.”

42. Take the time to hold open a door for an older adult. Offer your seat in a waiting room or your place in line.

43. Share your talents with seniors at a nursing home. Offer to play old favorites on the community piano or bring your family or friends to make a craft.

44. Share your children’s smiles and laughter with a visit to a retirement community, senior center or nursing home. Have them use bright crayons and markers to make holiday cards for seniors.

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