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to Lake Country to spend his retirement years with his wife, he was coming o� a bout of prostate cancer that had showed him how the support of a community could help in tough times.

Orlick, a 75-year-old resident of Lake Country’s Holiday Park, was living in Calgary when he received his diagnosis. But he quickly found out that he and his wife weren’t alone.

“We had so much help with our neighbors coming to help and the hospital sta� were so great, it was unreal,” said Orlick, taking a break from a project in the Holiday Park wood shop. “� en when we moved here my wife came down with breast cancer and everybody helped us out again. So we thought ‘why can’t we give something back to the community.’ It’s a situation where you help me and I will help you.”

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to Lake Country to spend his retirement years with his wife, he was coming off a bout of prostate cancer that had showed him how the support of a community could help in tough times.

Orlick, a 75-year-old resident of Lake Country’s Holiday Park, was living in Calgary when he received his diagnosis. But he quickly found out that he and his wife weren’t alone.

“We had so much help with our neighbors coming to help and the hospital staff were so great, it was unreal,” said Orlick, taking a break from a project in the Holiday Park wood shop. “Then when we moved here my wife came down with breast cancer and everybody helped us out again. So we thought ‘why can’t we give something back to the community.’ It’s a situation where you help me and I will help you.”

And that philosophy is paramount at Holiday Park, a community of more than 1,000 residents, the majori-ty of them senior citizens.

Orlick became the pres-ident of the Holiday Park Leaseholders Association, a group that represents the residents at Holiday Park when issues arise with man-agement as well as organiz-ing a variety of fundraisers throughout the year.

The group holds an annual Christmas dinner, a monthly pancake break-fast as well as publishing a directory of park residents. Less formally an e-mail list is circulated with every res-ident on it and if someone needs help, they can find it amongst their neighbors.

“We do thousands of hours of volunteer work each year,” said Orlick. “It’s worked out quite well.”

At last year’s Christmas dinner, leaseholders raised $500 for the Lake Country Food Bank and recently

presented the money to the local organization.

“I love it and my wife does too,” said Orlick of the spirit of cooperation and community at Holiday Park. “We’re always thinking of

ways we can get involved in the community. Some days we work our hearts out. No word of a lie, some weeks we put in 50 hours of volunteer work, then for a week maybe we won’t do much.”(

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Gordon McInnes, (left) executive member, and Ted Orlick, (right) president of the Holiday Park Leaseholders Association, present a cheque in the amount of $500 to Phyllis MacPherson of the Winfield Food Bank. This money was generated from the annual Christmas dinner sponsored by the association.

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Alistair Waters, assistant editorAfter 32 years with the RCMP, Ted Anderson wasn’t

ready to retire from working. But he was ready for a change.

He enjoyed most of his time as a cop, he says, but after 25 years on the job in here in Kelowna, when he heard he could be transferred out, he decided to call it a career. That was in 2003. He was 55.

Eleven years later, at an age where mandatory retire-ment in this province used to kick in, Anderson is still working—but in an entirely different field.

And he says he has no plans to stop.Anderson went from driving a police cruiser to driving a

school bus. And he says he couldn’t be happier.“I knew I could not vegetate on the couch and watch

television all day,” says Anderson, who traded 12-hour shifts as an RCMP officer for four-hour shifts driving his bus for the Central Okanagan School District.

“I stepped into this right away. I wanted to stay busy.”With his other part-time job—teaching firearms safe-

ty—and his volunteer duties with a local historic car club, Anderson stays busy in, what some would consider, his

“golden” years.But Anderson is ac-

tually typical of many seniors these days—older people who have either blown through the typical retirement age and kept working or who have returned to the workforce after a few years off.

“Most older work-ers are not retiring,” says Cathy Fitzger-ald, a professor with the Okanagan School of Business at Okanagan College. “They may not want full-time work, but they want to stay involved.”

Fitzgerald, who has conducted research on older work-ers, says while many jurisdictions, including B.C., have done away with mandatory retirement at age 65, the marker was based on society’s perception that 65 is “old.”

“But that’s not the case any more,” she said.With people living longer, healthier lives—especially in

B.C.—workers either want to keep working or are deciding after a year or two off that they want to return.

They have experience to offer, skills that can be used and despite the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” an ability to learn new skills and transfer the ones they have to other lines of work.

According to Fitzgerald, flexibility is important for older workers returning to the workforce.

In the last 10 years, the first of the baby boomers have started to retire. But for a myriad of reasons, many are either not willing to give up work or, after a short time off, find they want to get back into the work force.

They are a highly educated group, with a strong work ethic who have experience to offer and, with no rules in place any longer they have to retire at 65, have the freedom to seek out jobs that interest them.

Fitzgerald said her research showed despite the wide-spread belief that most retirees re-enter the workforce because of financial reasons, that was not the overriding reason when she looked at the data available.

In most cases, seniors want to stay involved, keep con-tributing and remain productive members of society.(

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“Canadian retirees who regularly give their time to others experience a number of increased health benefits compared to those seniors who don’t,” says Ben Gottlieb, a University of Guelph psychology professor who has been researching the positive health benefits of volunteering in seniors. “Some of the health benefits include enhanced fitness and reduced physical limitations, better lung function, less arthritis pain, better cardiovascular function and increased happiness, energy and vitality.”

A 2009 study shows that having a strong sense of pur-pose in life is associated with lower mortality rates and volunteer work was listed as one way seniors can find this sense of purpose. A 2011 study found that, when compared to non-volunteers, older people who dedicated modest amounts of time to volunteer activities benefited from a reduced risk of hypertension.

“Today’s seniors lead very full lives and they want to give back so their skills and exper-tise can benefit their communities,” says Erin Spink, past president of the Ontario branch of the Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources. “The many health benefits associated with volunteering enhances the meaningful and rewarding life experience volunteering provides.”(

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� e group is an o� -spring of the Stephen Lewis Foun-dation’s Grandmothers Campaign, created to help grand-mothers in Africa caring for their grandkids who have been orphaned by the AIDS pandemic.

Since the campaign was started in March 2006, the groups across Canada have grown to 220 in number involv-ing 10,000 grandmothers, able to raise more than $16.5 million.

� e foundation’s namesake, Stephen Lewis, is a former Canadian politician, diplomat and international envoy for humanitarian e� orts. After serving as Canada’s ambassa-

dor to the United Nations, he was appointed by then UN secretary-general Ko� Annan to be his special envoy for the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa.

Frustrated by a lack of action from world governments, Lewis created his own foundation in 2003 to assist grassroots organizations working to help ease the pain of the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa.

While the e� ort has helped make a di� erence in the lives of many Afri-can grandmothers and their families, much more remains needed.

But it’s the inspiration of those African grandmothers, struggling to keep their grand-children alive against insurmountable odds at times, that inspired Kelowna resident Cheryl Fraser to get involved with the local chapter’s start-up in 2008.

Fraser said hearing about the stories of the struggle in Africa for grandmothers to keep their families together and alive, � rst at the international AIDS conference hosted by Toronto in 2006 and then � rst-hand when she attended a conference in Vancouver last fall have been the inspiration for her to get involved.

� e Lewis Foundation hosted the people’s tribunal conference in Vancouver that Fraser attended, meant to shine a public light on the denial of African grandmothers’ human rights, with personal testimonies given by six sub-Saharan African grandmothers.

� e grandmothers spoke about the most pressing issues they face, such as property grabbing loss of housing, sexual violence, and food and income insecurity.

� e Kelowna chapter’s goals this year are to raise $10,000 and to increase the membership from the current 15 members.

Fraser said the e� orts of the campaign are to help Afri-can grandmothers put food on their table for their parent-less grandkids, see the children get to school and that their own parental and human rights rights are protected.

She tells the story from her own travel experiences of visiting a village in Botswana and learning that women had to walk � ve kilometres for water.

“� at’s a 10 kilometre walk every day just to get water. When you see how much we have and see how little some-one like that has, it’s hard not to feel like we can do something to help make a di� erence in their lives,” she said.

Because Fraser’s husband worked in the mining indus-try, they lived in many countries around the world. “Wetravelled to Africa, visited Botswana, Zambia and South Africa, but we never lived in Africa. But we’ve lived in other

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Frustrated by a lack of action from world governments, Lewis created his own foundation in 2003 to assist grassroots organizations working to help ease the pain of the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa.

While the effort has helped make a difference in the lives of many Afri-can grandmothers and their families, much more remains needed.

But it’s the inspiration of those Af-rican grandmothers, struggling to keep their grandchildren alive against insurmountable odds at times, that inspired Kelowna resident Cheryl Fraser to get involved with the local chapter’s start-up in 2008.

Fraser said hearing about the stories of the struggle in Africa for grandmothers to keep their families together and alive, first at the international AIDS conference hosted by Toronto in 2006 and then first-hand when she attended a conference in Vancouver last fall have been the inspiration for her to get involved.

The Lewis Foundation hosted the people’s tribunal conference in Vancouver that Fraser attended, meant to shine a public light on the denial of African grandmothers’ human rights, with personal testimonies given by six sub-Saharan African grandmothers.

The grandmothers spoke about the most pressing issues they face, such as property grabbing loss of housing, sexual violence, and food and income insecurity.

The Kelowna chapter’s goals this year are to raise $10,000 and to increase the membership from the current 15 members.

Fraser said the efforts of the campaign are to help Afri-can grandmothers put food on their table for their parent-less grandkids, see the children get to school and that their own parental and human rights rights are protected.

She tells the story from her own travel experiences of visiting a village in Botswana and learning that women had to walk five kilometres for water.

“That’s a 10 kilometre walk every day just to get water. When you see how much we have and see how little some-one like that has, it’s hard not to feel like we can do something to help make a difference in their lives,” she said.

Because Fraser’s husband worked in the mining indus-try, they lived in many countries around the world. “Wetravelled to Africa, visited Botswana, Zambia and South Africa, but we never lived in Africa. But we’ve lived in other

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<continued from pg. 6countries, like New Guin-ea, where you see what little resources so many people have to live day to day.”

Fraser said Africa grandmothers have a spe-cial kinship to this issue because they have raised families, often under diffi-cult circumstances, and will always feel naturally compelled to care for their grandkids in times of need. With the AIDS pandemic, a generation of children in Africa have faced the issue of living without their parents.

“Our group and the campaign itself can help make a difference in the lives of these orphaned children…we want to spread the word around and encourage others to be inspired to help,” Fraser said.

Among the fundraising events planned to achieve that $10,000 goal this year include a jewelry table set up at the annual United Church garage sale in May, a fundraiser walk at Mission Creek Regional Park along the greenway on June 7, and later this year the showing of a documenta-ry made about the Vancouver tribunal conference put on by the Lewis Foundation last fall.

Kelowna Grandmothers for Africa meets the fourth Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. at First United Church, 721 Bernard Ave., from September to June.

For more information about the Kelowna group, contact Cheryl Fraser at 250-764-9247 (email [email protected]) or Sandi Evans at 250-215-7080 ([email protected])(

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Seniors develop more cavities on the roots of their teeth than younger adults. As a result, all older adults should be encouraged to brush natural teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste and clean in between the teeth at least once a day. Dentures (full or partial) should be cleaned and soaked daily and the gums should be brushed and massaged, either with a soft toothbrush or with a warm, damp cloth.

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Maybe you are retired already, or just getting close to retirement.

Are you beginning to wonder what you will do with yourself in all that spare time you are finally going to have?

While some eagerly an-

ticipate this change in pace, many seniors do not look forward to it.

Regardless of where you fall in this spectrum, the truth is that you can’t make your job your only focus and commitment in life, because you won’t always have it!

Dr.Henry Lodge, co-au-thor of Younger Next Year,

maintains that it’s a good idea to plan for the retire-ment years.

While we may plan financially, many of us fail to plan socially, emotionally, and relationally.

Now is the time to begin preparing for this big change, building new networks of friends, and commitments that will be there when your job ends. Think about creating a new life and a new you!

Find projects to do and to keep working on. Volun-teer work is one of the most satisfying things you can do—society would be at

a loss without our seniors who devote so much time to volunteering.

Cultivate friendships and

don’t neglect social activi-ties. Your mom was right—be friendly if you want to have friends. Don’t be afraid to reach out to others. You have much to offer, and much to gain in return.

Have you always been curious about something? Now is the time to take a class on that subject. Learn to dance. Join a bird-watch-ing group. Learn a foreign language in order to pre-pare for that trip you have always wanted to take, but never had the time.

Take up exotic cooking,join a book club, or learn an instrument.

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Focus on building mem-ories together. Your relationship can grow even deeper as you head towards your golden years together.

Explore a common interest, or devel-op a new one. Ask questions, research, and act on it those interests. Your life will be the richer for it.

Our senior years can be rewarding, fun, and chal-lenging, occasionally with

choppy waters ahead. You may find yourself grateful having a partner to navigate with.

Speaking of partners, we are mammals…created to

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Any mammalian contact helps. A recent study on

heart attack victims kept track of who did and didn’t have a dog, with the non-dog owners six times as likely to die of a second heart attack.

Another study showed that isolated/single men were four times more likely to have a second heart attack than married/connected men.

Loneliness can short-en you life. Consider the returns from connecting and committing to relationships

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Life is meant to be lived to the full, not simply en-dured. If you are fortunate enough to live in Canada, you are already more for-tunate than many in this world.

What lessons have you learned that you can pass on to others? What lessons are still left for you to learn? Get out there and enjoy this big, beautiful world. (

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SELLING MISTAKESNot opting for a senior-oriented real estate agent. � e

issues facing senior citizens when selling their homes are much di� erent than for younger people, and most real estate agents have little idea how to resolve them. If no senior real estate specialist is available, ask agencies for the names of agents who are most comfortable with senior clients.

• Not getting a market analysis and � nancial evaluation. Ideally, a “sell” decision should surround market realities plus address investment and tax objectives, as well as lifestyle and emotional needs.

• Assuming you have to sell. A reverse mortgage or other � -nancing may help keep you in the comfy con� nes of your family home and facilitate home modi� cations.

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A study out of the Uni-versity of Waterloo suggests fraudsters are having more success with the mid-dle-aged than the elderly.

While traditionally it has been assumed seniors were the most vulnerable group falling prey to various forms of fraud, retired profes-sor Michael Ross, a social psychologist, has found the middle-aged are in fact more likely targets and he’s suggesting this may be because the elderly are more risk averse.

“As people age their goal orientation changes from trying to maximize gains, to trying to minimize losses,” Ross told the National Post after releasing his findings in a conference mid-March. “They spend less money, and they’re more careful about spending their money.”

Ross’s study, titled Middle-aged People Actually More Likely to Fall Victim to Con Artists than ‘Risk

Averse’ Senior Citizens, looked at data from large U.S. surveys and registries of fraud complaints and found they indicated the percent-age of victims peaks in late middle age and declines as people get older.

While social researchers

have traditionally hypoth-esized that memory loss and other cognitive deficits might make seniors easy targets, Ross hypothesizes the accompanying risk aver-sion that develops in those over 65 may also provide a measure of protection.

Here in the Okanagan, RCMP say they really haven’t seen a great deal of scams that target the elderly specifically as con artists are

game to take what they can get.

“It’s not so much that they target any demograph-ic, so much as it’s a blanket approach…Particularly with Internet fraud, we’re not seeing targeting of any one specific demographic so

much as it’s a scat-tergun approach,” said Kris Clark, Kelowna RCMP.

While there have been some senior-specific scams—such as the grandparent scam in which a

thief calls an unsuspecting senior and claims to be in

jail or in a jam and needing money—the biggest scams going at the moment target those who are less computer savvy, less accustomed to so-cial media and the Internet.

Thankfully, the Internet has plenty to offer those who are willing to learn how to protect themselves. Clark suggests going to the Cana-dian Anti-Fraud Centre, a resource he uses himself for information.

From identity theft to telemarketing scams, the centre tracks trends and provides useful tips to help every Canadian proactively avoid falling victim to a scam. (

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Photo 1 - Seventy-seven-year-old Archie Archibald lines up a shot in the billiards room at Parkinson Activity Centre.Photo 2 - Ninety-year-old Michael Frey takes his turn playing shu� eboard in the activity centre’s gymnasium, while Peggy Johnston looks on.Photo 3 - Sonja Janzen (left) and Gail Lewis use the computer room upstairs in the activity centre.Photo 4 - Ninety-six-year-old Helen Hardy takes her shot, while shu� eboard organizer Agnes Kloster watches. Photo 5 - Erika Draxinger pours a bowl of soup in the kitchen of the Parkinson Activity Centre.

� ere’s no shortage of things to do at the Parkinson Activity Centre. Table tennis, shu� eboard, billiards, � tness to music, yoga and tai chi are just a few of the activities the centre o� ers on a regular basis. Capital News photographer Wade Paterson stopped by the centre to take a few photos earlier this month.

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Do you have a short temper?

Do you � nd yourself getting impatient, or having angry outbursts? Do you ever � nd yourself thinking that something or someone “makes your blood boil?”?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should know that research-ers at the Harvard School of Public Health believe that this could be very bad for your health.

Doctors and patients have long believed that anger and other intense emotional responses have a long-term impact on the frequency and severity of cardiovascular events (heart and stroke).

Previously however, there had been insu� cient work to conclude a clear link to short-term risks of increased heart attacks and strokes.

After identifying 6,870 articles that examined the e� ects of anger on incidents of heart attack, and strokes, and � nding common cri-teria in nine studies, seven of which were published over an 18-year period (1995-2013), researchers have been able to determine that individuals are indeed at higher risk of su� ering

heart attack and strokes. All of the studies re-

viewed showed a consis-tently higher rate of heart attack and stroke within 2 hours of an emotional or angry outburst.

In total 6,435 individuals were studied, with incidents of heart attack, arrhythmia, and stroke identi� ed.

Researchers broke down their results to distinguish individuals who were already considered high risk due to weight, age, diet, family history, and individ-uals who were in a low risk category.

� ey further broke down their results, looking at in-dividuals who experienced low incidents of emotional outbursts and individuals with heightened frequency of emotional outbursts.

� e risk of su� ering a cardiovascular event is relatively high following outbursts of anger, and should give pause for con-sideration. Anger episodes may be infrequent making the impact on most individ-uals smaller.

However, the risk for individuals with preexisting factors will be substantially higher in individuals who experience frequent out-bursts of anger and emo-tion.

� e results of the study

showed the separation of impacts based on higher and lower risk individuals based on the following frequency of outbursts:

· One outburst per month – very low with only one reported (per 10,000 people), and four reported (per 10,000 people) for indi-viduals at high risk.

· Two outbursts per day – this is a slightly higher risk with 63 reported (per 10,000 people), and 268 re-ported (per 10,000 people) for individuals at high risk

· Five outbursts per day - this is extremely high. With a 20% risk and reported results of 158 reported (per 10,000 people) for low risk individuals and 657 report-ed (per 10,000 people) for individuals with high risk.

� e impact of outbursts is higher for individuals with frequent episodes of anger, putting people at 20% greater risk for a

cardiovascular event.If you � nd you are prone

to angry outbursts, consid-er your loved ones, consider those who would be left behind, smile and turn the other cheek. Consider this when you are feeling the urge to lose your temper, and maybe you should relax - it’s just your health.(

Relax, it’s just your health:EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN ANGER AND HEART ATTACK

Norm Letnick is the Liberal MLA for Kelowna-Lake

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work to conclude a clear link to short-term risks of increased heart attacks and strokes.

articles that examined the e� ects of anger on incidents of heart attack, and strokes, and � nding common cri-teria in nine studies, seven of which were published over an 18-year period (1995-2013), researchers have been able to determine that individuals are indeed at higher risk of su� ering


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Keeping Kelowna’s older adults ac-tive and with ample social connections is something the Seniors’ Outreach Society has put a great deal of focus on.

“So many are living on their own. In many cases a spouse has passed away or their family has moved out of town, or transportation can be an issue” said Kathryn McLean, co-ordinator of volunteer programs. “Isolation is a huge problem.”

Studies have indicated that iso-lation is a major risk for morbidity and mortality in older adults, so the Seniors’ Outreach Society works to combat it and related loneliness by seeking out and forming friendships within the community.

“People can call us them-selves if they’re feeling lone-ly, or they can call a health care provider,” said McLean.

Once they’ve made that connection, they’re matched with a volunteer of like age who can pay weekly visits to the senior who has expressed need.

It’s called “friendly visiting” and there are a number of slots available for those who want to take part.

For other volunteering opportu-nities the Seniors Outreach Society holds volunteer orientation meetings every Wednesday.

“Options include helping with in-come tax � ling, providing minor home repairs, mentors for the Internet or

be matched with other seniors who are living on their own with no family support,” said McLean.

� ere’s also computer mentor-ing, where a volunteer would teach a senior basic computer skills, like how to use Google, the Internet or how to print documents.

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