Senior Services and Forsyth Futures in collaboration with other local community partners held a series of community aging conversations last month to bring seniors, caregivers, professionals and other interested parties together to share their views and perspectives on aging in Forsyth county. The gatherings were fashioned after the world café-style of community feedback model, which allows for the rapid collection [...]
An introductory session of a Happiness Training program was sponsored by the Shepherd’s Center of Winston-Salem on March 28 at its Ebert Street offices. The untapped possibilities within, waiting to be discovered, are part of its Art of Living’s Happiness Training. Its purpose is to gain a greater vision of who we are through a technique called Sudarshan Kriya®, a [...]
View the Digital MagazineIn this Issue...Spring has sprung and we couldn’t be happier! Although this winter wasn’t bad at all, especially compared to what the north received, there is nothing like those fresh flowers blooming to pick us up out of the winter blues. In this issue, we are providing you some ways to get out and enjoy this gorgeous [...]
In the last Guide, I wrote about Lifestages and how much I wish for the day when an individual or couple, sharing the news that they have decided to move to a retirement community, is greeted with “Great News! Congratulations.” Since writing in the last Guide, I have heard from [...]
Doug Dickerson, State Director,AARP North Carolina All too often, North Carolinians are falling prey to scams and cons that are threatening both our financial and retirement security. The North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ), just one of many state agencies handling consumer fraud complaints, received nearly 66,000 reports of identity theft and fraud according to recent information compiled by the [...]
Sometimes all a crook needs from you is one word – “Yes.” With a tape recording of your voice saying it, a scammer can add charges to your phone bill or take other actions to steal your money. And when you protest that you never authorized the charges, that “yes” can make it harder to get the charges removed. The [...]
Quality of life as we age is optimal when we are part of a community of friends. To promote community living, a new concept in housing for seniors is sweeping the country. It’s called Cohousing, a word derived from collaborative cooperative housing. Oakcreek Community in Stillwater, Oklahoma Imagine a small neighborhood village of 25 to 30 individually owned homes clustered [...]
Emilee Collins Emilee Collins, SRS, SRES® NC Broker/REALTOR® of Real Estate by Design in Durham and Orange Counties Recently I was working with a retired couple facing significant medical concerns. My clients were like other Baby Boomers experiencing challenges resulting from a move to unfamiliar surroundings. They would be visiting new shopping areas, visiting different doctors, taking new medications, experiencing [...]
“You can be whatever you want to be in life.” It was the advice from her hero, her grandfather, which Louise Gooch has embodied throughout her life. With more than one lifetime of achievements under her belt, Dr. Gooch is proving that regardless of age, you can truly be whatever you want to be. After 31 years of nursing and [...]
By Ed and Sue Curtis Soon after North Carolina seceded from the union on May 20, 1861, the Confederate Government sought a location for a military prison. Property in Salisbury was chosen near the railroad and an abandoned cotton factory, houses and wells. The renovation of the buildings and construction of a stockade fence had begun when the first prisoners [...]
