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 […]
A DAILY STRUGGLE FOR THE CITY’S DESTITUTE ELDERLY Read More »
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
THINKING OUTSIDE THAT WOODEN BOX Read More »
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
ABUSE HURTS AT ANY AGE Read More »
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
YES, THE FUTURE IS INCREASINGLY FEMALE Read More »
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
SELF-ISOLATING DURING COVID-19 Read More »
Ever wonder why fewer women in China get breast cancer compared to their western counterparts? In her best-selling book “Your Life In Your Hands”, Professor Jane Plant, herself a breast cancer survivor, shares her extensive research on the subject and concludes that dairy-product consumption is a risk factor for breast cancer (and perhaps prostate cancer),
SHOULD WE SAY NO TO MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS? Read More »
I have posted the above image not to promote Dr Tom Wu’s book as it needs no promotion, but rather, to revisit it and find out why my blog article about him written in June 2009 has consistently remained the most read and with the most comments. It has garnered close to 121,400 page views
REVISITING CANCER SURVIVOR DR WU’S RECIPES FOR CONQUERING CANCER Read More »
The UN refers to people aged 60 and above as Older Persons. World Health Organisation uses the term ‘older people’. Are these terms of reference preferable to ‘senior citizens’ or ‘the elderly’? What is your opinion? When I started this blog in May 2008, I had dozens of names in mind for the blog. Unfortunately
HERE’S WHY THE 60+ DO NOT LIKE TO BE REFERRED TO AS ‘THE ELDERLY’ Read More »
My mother first showed signs of Alzheimer’s Disease probably as early as 2008. She was 82 then. She couldn’t remember dates, places and names of family members. She didn’t know one day from another, and forgot what she just had for dinner or where she had left her purse. That was 11 years ago. I
MY MOM HAS ALZHEIMER’S – AM I AT RISK? Read More »
