"Anyone over age 69 should face a firing squad."

This was just one of the many Facebook comments ridiculing the elderly cited in a recent Yale University study that reveals extensive bigotry and discrimination levelled at older adults on the popular social networking site.

Ageism, to...

Older age often creeps up on people. In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "The future ain't what it used to be."

Many who had the best intentions of preparing for retirement now find themselves with inadequate pensions that do not keep pace with inflation. Some are at serious...

Poor Santa.

Every single year it's the same thing. Harness up the reindeer. Supervise the loading of the sled by the elves. Then work all night delivering gifts to children all over the world. Christmas Eve is tough work, and he is not as young as he used to...

A report released this summer on the state of retirement housing spaces for seniors in Alberta from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows a healthy 11.3 per cent vacancy rate for standard spaces in the province. But what the Seniors' Housing Report does not include is...

During the last provincial election in Alberta there was an abysmal voter turnout rate of 40.6 per cent. But this was not the case with voters over the age of 65 who voted in significantly higher numbers. And political parties took notice.

Routinely, three out...