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Home support workers are vulnerable because many of them are foreign-born, because they are often poorly paid, and because they work in private homes.

Across generations, their correspondence provided them with additional emotional benefits derived through letter writing.

In the last days of life, residents are most often not in a position to express their will, and nurses interpret minimal bodily signs as expressions.

The private sector tends to commodify housing stock but also acts in favour of the profit motive and the person and their needs remain largely ignored.

As ageing in urban settlement emerges as a global demographic trend, a better understanding of the importance and limitations of demographics should be placed at the top of researchers’ list of priorities.

The Boomers in our study describing retirement as a reflection of disengagement and detachment from society – not the active and engaged lifestyle they yearned for. Rather than leave the workforce entirely, they wanted to scale back, switch jobs, or pursue their passions, which they didn’t label as “retirement.”

Although many of the articles are seemingly written with the best of intentions there is a risk that they further contribute to the portrayal of loneliness as a dangerous and/or inevitable part of later life.

The potential to make common cause between groups who are otherwise divided, and amongst whom are individuals dealing alone with challenges that seem to require collective responses.

Curling’s new style risks devaluing the alternative masculine styles, often embodied by those in later life; something that curling previously celebrated.

The dominant model of successful aging is centered on three main criteria which include: a low probability of disease and disability, high physical and cognitive functional capacity, and active engagement with life (Rowe & Kahn, 1987). Over time, this concept has gained traction as a leading focus for research, policy, and practice.