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Sharing stories of earlier challenges and fond reminiscences has helped some seniors cope with the uncertainty of COVID.

Carman seniors use storytelling to connect despite COVID

Many seniors’ programs in rural communities have had to close while others have modified, leaving seniors with fewer options for socializing

By Geralyn Wichers October 21, 2020

COVID-19 isn’t Olive Foote’s first brush with a national crisis. She lived through the Great Depression. “It wasn’t my responsibility when I was eight or nine years old, but I was old enough to join my parents in their concern,” wrote Foote, who lives at Heritage Manor in Elm Creek. “We always made do with

University of Manitoba associate professor Richard Milgrom spoke on aging in rural Manitoba during a Centre on Aging seminar.

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Rural Manitoba is both good and bad for aging seniors

The people make it work, but the places can be hostile environments, says a Centre on Aging speaker

By Lorraine Stevenson April 6, 2018

Small towns can be great places to retire and live out one’s golden years — or not. A community with nearby family and lifelong friends is what draws or keeps people there. It’s more difficult to live there when appropriate and well-located housing, good sidewalks, and alternative modes of travel for non-drivers aren’t. Richard Milgrom,

Older farmers are at more risk than any other group when it comes to farm fatalities.

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Statistics show senior farmers need safer practices

An aging farm population and workforce bring new challenges

By Alana Fearnall March 12, 2018

The good news is statistics indicate that farm fatalities are declining. The bad news is that for older farmers the fatality rate is much higher than any other age group. Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR) found that fatality rates are highest for older adults, aged 60 and over. In 2012, the fatality rate for older

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New models of health-care delivery sought

The province wants Manitobans to offer ideas on how to make right choices and ensure quality care is available for many years to come, health minister says

By Lorraine Stevenson December 6, 2016

As Manitoba’s population ages, it’s going to need more personal care beds — well beyond the 1,200 new spots already promised by the provincial government. That frank assessment came from provincial Minister of Health, Seniors and Active Living, Kelvin Goertzen, at the annual convention of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities last week in Winnipeg. “The

Bruce Friesen, Dugald United Church member, together with Murray Gillespie, Bev Zarazun and Lesley Thomson are members of the recently established  Springfield Seniors Housing Co-op Ltd. which is constructing a 47-unit, three-storey apartment development on the east side of Dugald.

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Dugald housing co-op a model for meeting rural seniors’ housing needs

By Lorraine Stevenson August 26, 2015

With their Oakbank-area acreage becoming too much to maintain, Bev and Adam Zarazun plan to sell and move to a home that takes less to maintain. In the past, that would have meant leaving their neighbours and friends too but the Zarazuns are thankful they have a new option closer by. They’ll be living just

Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

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Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

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Carman seniors use storytelling to connect despite COVID

Rural Manitoba is both good and bad for aging seniors

Statistics show senior farmers need safer practices

New models of health-care delivery sought

Dugald housing co-op a model for meeting rural seniors’ housing needs

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