Editor’s Picks
Editor’s Picks are links to external stories that may be of interest to CARP members, and are chosen by the CARP editorial team.
Seniors are safe drivers, editorial says
April 02, 2012 Toronto Star by Moira Welsh Senior drivers are getting a bad rap and are much safer on the road than many experts believe, says a commentary published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The commentary, released Monday, takes aim at “misleading” statements by other experts. The author, Ezra Hauer, said seniors have more fatal and serious injury … Read more
Downton Abbey on VisionTV
Our colleagues at ZoomerMedia are pleased to let you know that the enormously popular and Emmy Award-winning television series Downton Abbey will be broadcast on Vision TV starting 22 February. It has become the most successful British costume drama since Brideshead Revisited and in 2011 it entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most critically acclaimed English language television show” … Read more
Join CARP’s Fight to Protect Seniors
Join for as low as $14.95. Click here. CARP is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to a ‘New Vision of Aging for Canada’ promoting social change that will bring financial security, equitable access to health care and freedom from discrimination. Our mandate is to promote and protect the interests, rights and quality of life for Canadians as we age. … Read more
No Health Accord – now what?
- CARP proposes an Alternate Vision- Get to Work on Pharmacare, National Home Care and Age-Friendly Health Care Just because the provincial premiers did not get the year long fight they were girding up for doesn’t mean that the health care system will collapse nor that it is fine as it is. The federal government dropped the so-called bombshell just … Read more
CARP Introduces new free Health Wizard for its 300,000 members
CARP Introduces The CARP Health Wizard™ New Powerful Online Navigation Tool Empowers Canadians To Take Charge of Their Own Health “Sooner or later, the bad news does come to us all. Now, when it does, CARP offers Canadians a choice.” – Moses Znaimer, President, CARP December 13, 2011: CARP: A New Vision of Aging for Canada has announced the launch … Read more
Technology & Safety for Zoomers in Volvo S60 T6
Many moons ago, when I was in college, auditing an architecture and design course, we learned about a high-end chair designed by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company in 1956. It was over 20 years before I had a chance to sit in an original Eames Chair, and it was … Read more
Candrive study tracks senior drivers to help determine who should be on road
Nelson Wyatt- Canadian Press Originally printed in Winnipeg Free Press MONTREAL – So when, exactly, should elderly drivers hang up their car keys? Right now, there’s no national standard for evaluating them, something researchers at Candrive, a program drawing on scientists from 10 Canadian universities, hope to help fix. They’re currently working on developing a reliable way for doctors to … Read more
Have poles, will travel – Sports – Halifax News Net
Published on August 23, 2011 Bill VanGorder was an avid runner until he got to be about 65. That was when his knees decided they didn’t like running quite as much as he did. Looking to get his heart rate up to a comparable level, but in a way that was easier on his joints and knees, VanGorder discovered Nordic … Read more
