Senior citizens account for a significant percentage of the overall population. Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau released in 2020 indicate the nation’s 65-and-older population had grown by more than one-third over the preceding decade. By 2050, the number of senior citizens is expected to be close to 90 million. As of 2021, Statistics Canada reported there were roughly 7.1 million persons age 65 and older living in Canada.
Claude Hanks, a resident at Homestead Assisted Living, shows off a tomato from the garden he and other residents have been working on over the summer. CDN
Raising children is a significant responsibility. Parents know there’s no such thing as a day off, which is why the first day they come home to an empty nest can be so confounding.
Bathrooms can serve as sanctuaries, providing a warm tub to soak in after a long, weary day or a private place to retire for a few minutes of peace and quiet. Bathrooms also can be dangerous places, as various groups warn that most slip and fall accidents that occur at home will happen in the bathroom.
Jessica Reed, right, draws blood from Martha Arredondo at The Blakeburn Clinic in Clinton. CDN
Hardworking adults spend years striving to achieve their professional goals. Along the way, planning for retirement is a way to ensure all that hard work pays off when the time comes to call it a career.
When the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, Mary Eberstadt’s mother, a nurse, came home from work wearing a silver pin with two baby feet on it. She and her colleagues were wearing them to signify their refusal to participate in abortions. They weren’t following the pope’s or bishops’ orders. They didn’t have the sonograms we have now, but they knew what was happening in a pregnant woman’s womb.
Greek mythology makes it clear that the great god Zeus loved to party.
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