Joyce Wayne: Retirement Matters

What does it mean to grow old in Canada? How much has the profile of older Canadians changed in recent years

For the first time in a long time, I’ve been to places where laundry is drying on an outdoor clothesline.

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and the regrets into old age.”
– Margaret Mead

Teaching at a community college is a great job and no one in her right mind should complain about it.

Community workers are increasingly focussing on loneliness and social isolation as huge issues for older people in Canada

If you’re like me, you can’t get the remarkable data from The Men of the Harvard Grant Study out of your head.

For all the effort and resources medical research invests in finding out what makes people sick, few studies have delved into what makes us happy

The English romantic poet, William Wordsworth, wrote these simple lines: “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

Thirty years ago I met a fascinating, independent, courageous woman named Marta.

A case can be made that the best years of our lives are those when we enter maturity