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Category: Lit Senior Initiative

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Memory | A New Post by Lorrie Morales

My grandmother suffered from dementia, as did my father. Do I fear this disease? I suppose I expect to suffer some memory loss as I age, but I hope to keep my brain as healthy as possible. When we lose our memories, we tend to lose part of ourselves. Having a good memory helps us…

An Evening with Nil Koney ~Senior Lit Show

Nil Koney is a community leader. He is also a Community Leader, Magazine Publisher and Advocate for African Communities. He joined the Seniors Lit Show to share some of his most interesting life stories and to talk about how he navigated the lock downs and the pandemic.        

Author Lorraine Morales on the Senior Lit Show

Author Lorraine -Lorrie – Morales is the Author of the book We Can Do This!: Adult Children and Aging Parents Planning for success. This is a must have book for adult children who have aging parents. According to the Amazon listing of the book, the book is practical, conversational and authentic. The book partners Lorrie’s…

Dancing Through the Pandemic ~ Alla Ternikova Shares Her Life Stories with the Seniors Lit Show

Alla Ternikova joined the Seniors Lit Show yesterday to talk about being a senior and what she does to keep busy during the pandemic. Alla migrated to Canada when she was 27 years old. She is a Jew who migrated from the old Soviet Union before it was disbanded. She told stories about how her…

A Senior With Convictions – Mr Yash Sharma Chats to the Senior Lit Initiative Show Episode 2

  The Seniors Lit Initiative is a flagship program of LCCMedia Foundation. With the help of a much needed grant, the Foundation is charged with running painting sessions for seniors and curating content about how seniors coped in the pandemic for a magazine exclusively for seniors. In this media chat, we spoke to Yash Sharma …

Weekly Free Painting Sessions for Seniors Week 3

  “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”   The truth be told, we all have our talents. We all have the ability to do whatever we put our minds too. Enabled by New Seniors Horizon, LCCMedia Foundation is…

Seniors Lit Initiative with Yvonne and Vindel Chang ~ Episode 1

LCCMedia Foundation got a grant with New Horizon Seniors to deliver painting sessions to seniors. The terms of the grant include hosting podcasts sessions with seniors asking them about their experiences in the pandemic. The last component of the grant is to create a magazine from the conversations had with our seniors. We are working…

Fruits or Fitness ~ A Write Up For Seniors

Many people are realizing that exercise is not as important as our food intake. We generally understand that our body weight begins to come down when we consume less food and then exercise for rapid results. The importance of consuming a balanced diet which includes fruits and vegetables cannot be over emphasized. Here are some…

The Covid 19 Situation and Seniors

Lower your chance of getting sick If you’re at high risk for serious illness from COVID-19, it’s important to take actions to lower your chance of getting sick. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after using the washroom and when preparing food. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60%…

Helplines For Seniors

It is important to us that our seniors know where to go when things are not working. If you are reading this and you are a senior, it is well worth it to have some of these numbers on your speed dial. The numbers are 24 hours and toll free helplines. You do not have…