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Sue discusses the need to “understand the different roles and types of help you may need based on your lifestyle and the housing you choose.”

5. Your Financial and Other Resources – Here

Sue reviews a number of different ways your resources can go the furthest. She suggests it will depend upon “if you wish to stay in your home and renovate it to enable individual care to be offered or move to lower-cost housing or co-locate in the same building with a friend.”

She discusses some unique housing options currently being built across the country to support older adults living in homelike settings.

ACER-CART supports the need for its over 165,000 members to be proactive in planning for the aging process. They outline the following “Benefits for individuals to stay in their own home: • Remaining in one’s own home allows the individual to remain independent.

• Remaining in the familiar surroundings of one’s own home contributes to better mental health. • Older adults will avoid exposure to infections and contaminants often encountered in long term care home situations.

• Visits from family and friends can follow a more normal pattern.

• Older adults and their caregivers can select the level and timing of care.

• Costs of home renovations will likely be less than those associated with living in assisted-living or long-term care facilities.”

In upcoming KIT editions, suggested strategies and supports to enable you to have a quality lifestyle longer will be outlined in more depth using this Five-Strategy Framework. If you are interested in learning more about Sue Lantz’s book and her writing, she is the Managing Director of “Collaborative Aging” and can be contacted at sue@ collaborativeaging.com . RTAM is looking forward to exploring these five key strategies as introduced at the ACER-CART workshop in upcoming KIT magazines! Together we will learn how to make the most of our retirement years! 

Gabe Mercier, Chair

The photography workshops which were to be held on September 8th and 9th have, regrettably, been cancelled due to low registrations. RTAM has provided a full refund to registrants!

The Wellness Advocacy Committee is looking to obtain information from the membership to be used in our preparations for 2023, for a year of exciting wellness activities. To help guide activity selection, we are conducting a survey of our membership on activities that are of interest to them.

We also need teachers/presenters to teach in our various workshops, and we are trying to develop a database of teachers and interested attendees. We believe that retired teachers have expertise in many areas of interest to other members, and who would like an opportunity to share their knowledge. We have developed four categories for possible workshops: Food for Fun and Health, Seminars and Information Sessions, Hobbies, Crafts and Games and lastly, Truth and Reconciliation. Your input in any of those areas will be appreciated.

Please visit https://forms. gle/6pZgpqAM8r8gExpG7 to take the RTAM Program Planning survey.

You are also invited to email the Wellness Advocacy Committee Chair, Gabe Mercier, to share your ideas for upcoming programs or suggestions for future Workshops. Gabe can be reached by email at gmercier@rtam.mb.ca.

We would like to thank Sean Seywright for helping in setting up the categories. 

In Memoriam

December 2021

Donna M. Watts – The Pas, MB

February 2022

Elsie Heppner – Waldheim, SK

March 2022

Rose M. Penner – Landmark, MB

“The above RTAM members who have passed, were regretfully missed from previous editions of KIT. We sincerely apologize to their families.”

April 2022

Guy R. Boulianne – Winnipeg, MB Rita A. Covernton – Winnipeg, MB Mike F. Ganczar – Headingley, MB Phyllis M. Gillespie – Calgary, AB Joyce E. Grant – Portage la Prairie, MB John Hildebrand – Carman, MB William Ingleson – Surrey, BC Harry Koop – Rosenort, MB Delbert V. MacPherson – Souris, MB Mildred M. McAuley – Altona, MB Allan E. McCulloch – Treherne, MB Shelagh R. McDowell – Winnipeg, MB M. Lucille Muldoon – Ottawa, ON Rudy A. Schulz – Winnipeg, MB Teresa A. Wielgosh – Beausejour, MB

May 2022

Alexander G. Boyes – Winnipeg, MB Anne Brow – Winnipeg, MB Brian D. Franklin – Deloraine, MB Abram J. Friesen – Steinbach, MB Janet E. Goldack – Winnipeg, MB GeorgiaDay E. Hall – Winnipeg, MB Margaret E. Heise – Hamiota, MB Pauline Ignash – Winnipeg, MB Meroslaw Lakusta – Winnipeg, MB Enos J. Legge – Dauphin, MB Miriam Maltz – Winnipeg, MB Edna J. McCreath – Nanaimo, BC Michelle S. McLeod – Winnipeg, MB Marilyn B. Nazar – Headingley, MB Katherine Peters – Steinbach, MB John C. Sparling – Ile de Chenes, MB

June 2022

Gladys J. Bodnarus – Winnipeg, MB Anette M. Bouchard – Winnipeg, MB Virginia D. Coffield – Lancaster, MN (USA) William J. Hutton – Winnipeg, MB Ronald J. Ledoyen – Winnipeg, MB Helen M. Lo – Vancouver, BC Helen E. Loeppky – Winnipeg, MB Grace Moore – Chilliwack, BC Franz J. Neufeld – Winnipeg, MB Paul Neustaedter – Ottawa, ON Casimir J. Peniuta – Winnipeg, MB Dale E. Scott – Winnipeg, MB Laurel E. Shewchuk – High River, AB Myrna Singer – Winnipeg, MB Walter D. Stefanchuk – Winnipeg, MB Margaret Wiens – Winnipeg, MB Donna H. Winstone – Matlock, MB Margaret C. Young – Winnipeg, MB

Life Members

(Presented at age 90 to RTAM members)

April 2022

Morris Boychuk – Portage la Prairie Aileen M. Huss – Winnipeg, MB

May 2022

Karen P.M. Boughton – Toronto, ON Genevieve E. Brown – Killarney, MB M. Viola Dufresne – Winnipeg, MB Helen M. Hawthorne – Spruce Grove, AB Stanley Lesniewski – Miami, MB Edward G. Mann – Winnipeg, MB P. Joyce Tomchuk – Portage la Prairie, MB Ivan L. Traill – Neepawa, MB

June 2022

Elinor Francisco – Winnipeg, MB Roy E. Halstead – Winnipeg, MB Walter Stoyko – Winnipeg, MB Joe Tachinski – Buffalo Point, MB

July 2022

G. Bernice Giesbrecht – Winnipeg, MB William R. McMurray – Saskatoon, SK Pauline S. Morris – Winnipeg, MB Peter Podhorodeski – Brandon, MB Laurette M. Tinguely – Montreal, QC