1 May
Featured | Wellness & Healthy Aging

Predicting premature menopause

Will GibsonMay 1, 2024

Researchers have developed a statistical model that predicts the likelihood of female childhood cancer survivors developing premature menopause as they grow up, which could help doctors personalize treatment and counselling options for patients.“We aimed to develop and validate models to predict age-specific risk among long-term survivors of childhood cancer, and our model showed robust prediction performance,” says Yan Yuan, a professor in the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health who led the research team that developed the tool, including an online calculator to help patients assess their risk.Primary ovarian insufficiency, also known as premature menopause, is the term used...

24 Apr
Current Events | Featured

Our mental health is vital

Larry MathiesonApril 24, 2024

According to the World Health Organization:• By 2030, one in six people in the world will be aged 60 years or over.• Loneliness and social isolation are key risk factors for mental health conditions in later life.• One in six older adults experience abuse, often by their carers.• Approximately 14 per cent of adults aged 60 and over live with a mental disorder.• Mental disorders among older adults account for 10.6 per cent of the total years lived with disability for this age group. (2023)For over 50 years staff and volunteers at Unison have tried to combat loneliness indirectly by...

7 Aug
Featured

86-year-old YouTuber teaches Italian cuisine

Andrew McCutcheonAugust 7, 2020

It’s very easy to get the feeling that Mariano Trivelin doesn’t measure to the milliliter, in some calculated fashion like other chefs you could watch at home. In the 86-year-old’s video on how to make homemade gnocchi pasta, he takes a...

6 Aug
Wellness & Healthy Aging

Knowing the past, planning the future

Deborah MaierAugust 6, 2020

Why keep a garden journal? For the past couple of springs, I have heard gardeners’ comment about the late starts of perennials. However, when I look at pictures that I’ve captured of noteworthy plants this year and last, they are emerging...

4 Aug
Wellness & Healthy Aging

Learn the ukulele at any age

Lesli Christianson-KellowAugust 4, 2020

I’m holding my ukulele as my fingers awkwardly strum a rhythm pattern. It’s a combination of up strumming and down strumming while changing between the A minor and G chord. I’ve taken a few lessons in the past. Lately, I’ve...

29 Jul
Money

Five Steps to Manage Financial Stress

Alberta Securities CommissionJuly 29, 2020

We are living in challenging times and every day Albertans face the unprecedented combination of economic uncertainty, ongoing COVID-19 dangers, volatile stock markets, a shaky job market and rising costs of living expenses. In a recent national poll by FP Canada,...

14 Jul
Featured

Sunny weather, at last!

Barbara EllisJuly 14, 2020

Finally, a warm and sunny morning. It won’t be long before the trees will be in bloom. The bushes are already happily showing off their baby leaves which burst their buds overnight. The trees have a shade of green about...

10 Jul
Current Events | Opinion

What I learned from Zoom

Angie FriesenJuly 10, 2020

I remember back in March when I was approached by Kerby Centre about taking my yoga classes online. At that time, I really wasn’t sure how I felt about that, as I’ve only ever conducted classes in person, and I...

8 Jul
Featured

The Purveyors of Possibilities

Andrew McCutcheonJuly 8, 2020

It’s a Saturday morning with crisp June air, just cold enough that you can see the steam coming off of paper cups of coffee, held in hands by folks sitting in hard plastic chairs on a cold concrete driveway. They are...

7 Jul
Featured

It’s not the size of the trailer

Lesli Christianson-KellowJuly 7, 2020

The rain was coming down hard. My family and I were warm and dry in our 1973 Scamper trailer. We were enjoying our annual camping/gold panning trip to the Cariboo region in B.C. My daughters, six and nine-years-old, were stretched...