It is not often I write a book review but I am making an exception for Mrs Jagjeet Singh’s book ‘My 7 Secrets to Staying Young’. After reading the book (written in just two months during the Covid-19 stay-home period), I want to encourage everyone to read it too. The gems contained in it will […]
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For this blog post, I have selected to address an issue that many of us seniors here in Malaysia and Singapore are familiar with – a reluctance to ask our doctors for more information even when we want to know more. Perhaps it’s to do with our Asian culture of keeping quiet especially when in
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We are familiar with the ‘New Normal’ and have adjusted to it quite well. There is also another New Normal going around. This is the rise of a new generation of older people – the baby boomers, born between 1946 to 1964, the post-WW2 boom years. They are now aged 56 to 74. They have
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Where the extended family used to live under one roof, today’s nuclear family structure means there is no one to care for the children when both parents are out at work. So who do young married couples turn to to look after their little ones? Their parents, of course, especially if they are still active,
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Hard times are here, and they get harder by the day. Jobs are scarce and money is even scarcer. For the elderly with no family and no financial support, it is a daily struggle to stay alive. Some have lost their contract jobs due to months of business shutdown. They are desperate to look for
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We’ve heard it before: 60 is the new 40 and 70 the new 50. Yet, there are many among us senior citizens who view themselves as 60 going on 80, and 70 going on 90. They think old, look old and act old. They have OLD stamped all over their body and mind. No wonder
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We shudder with horror and disbelief when we read in the papers about caregivers physically abusing the elderly in their care. We cannot fathom how anyone could cause pain and injury to frail and defenseless old people. We would never do anything like that to hurt the very people we are supposed to look after
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My mother, now 94, grew up in Seremban in the WWII era when women had no voice, no official role to play in society. They were the family nurturer and caregiver, roles thrusted upon them which they accepted without complaint or protest. This was long before women discovered they were multi-skilled and could handle several
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MCO (Stay-Home) Day 24. Today is a good (Fri)day as any to take a trip down Nostalgia Lane. Am digging up some old blog posts and giving it a slightly new 2020 update. Join me in this first one. In April 2014, then US President Obama began a 3-day (26-28 April) visit to Malaysia. The
Am writing this on the last day of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia from 18 March to 31 March 2020. It has been extended for another fortnight from 1 April to 14 April. I am not complaining. Better safe than sorry. We should be thankful that we are staying at home in relative
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