Breast Cancer and Menopause
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer usually occurs in older women between the ages of 50 and 69, which is also the time of life when a woman…
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"The Twist" is 55!
2 videos - Chubby Checker on Dick Clark, and a montage of TV shows and movie clips including "The Beaver", Mad Men cast, John Travolta/Uma Thurman, and many others "twisting"…
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Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Every 7 minutes, someone dies from a heart attack in Canada. Although the average age for heart attacks in 2010 was 71, heart attacks are not limited to seniors! This…
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Celebrating Seniors - Raquel Welch is 75
Now a septuagenarian senior citizen and still beautiful, Raquel Welch was born 75 years ago today on September 5, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois as Jo Raquel Tejada. Her parents were…
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Boomer TV Trivia: Charlie's Angels
Q1. Which two characters on the original Charlie's Angels television series appeared in all 110 episodes (including the pilot 1976 made-for-tv movie)? Q2. Which character was represented on almost every…
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100 Years of Beauty
A young engaged couple takes a journey through the years to see what their future might hold - imagining not only how they will look as an older couple, but…
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The Face of 50: Sandra Bullock?
This week People magazine crowned Sandra Bullock as 2015 World's Most Beautiful Woman. What's more amazing about this? That Sandra Bullock is 50 (she'll turn 51 on July 26th) and…
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Many Older Canadians Do Not Fully Retire
According to recent CTV News article, a Stats Canada study (1994-2000) released in January showed that more than 50% of Canadians between the ages of 55-64 who left their jobs…
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