My Life
Protect your interests through the Mental Capacity Act
What happens if you lose the capacity to make decisions? Who should take charge of your welfare, and what happens to your property and affairs in the event of that? In view of these important...
Seniors at school camp
School camps are no longer just designated for teenagers. The South East Community Development Council (CDC) organised its second two-day Seniors Learning Camp in November last year and some 54...
Are you an ageist?
The definition of “ageism” is prejudice and discrimination against a particular age-group and especially the elderly. If you have the tendency to regard older persons as feeble, unworthy...
Cooking healthy meals
A Healthy Cooking Interest Group has sprung up at the Paya Lebar Kovan CC and the members are not all women. Initially a group of five women (four Chinese and one Malay) attended the Health Promotion...
Poster boy
Mauricio V Soliano (his father is Filipino and his mother is Portuguese) started work when he was 22 and has since been with Robinsons department store (mainly at the Centrepoint outlet) for close to...
Paddling at any age
One might think that dragon boating is just reserved for the young. Don’t tell this to Wan Kam Tai, who at 70 years old has been actively participating in dragon boating for four years and...
Sharing The Bond
The Women’s Initiative for Ageing Successfully (WINGS) launched a workbook aimed at fostering closer ties across three generations in families. The Bond is a full colour, 48-page hardcover...
A cook-off to remember
You didn’t have to go far to get drama. In a kitchen filled with three generations cooking up a storm in the required 30 minutes, we got to see tears, singing (and some smoke and pressuring of...
Tracing your roots
It is important to know where you came from and I am not talking about from the womb. One woman has taken this task very seriously and has tracked her ancestors as far back as late 1891. The 60-year-...
The fun in exercise
Ann Leong, who is in her 50s, has been singing the praises of exercise for a long time and has taken it a step further by starting an exercise group in 2004. The group’s members, which has...