British Columbia has about 4 and a half million people and as of August last year fully one million of them were are on Canadian Pension plan. With an  overall death rate on par with the  Arab Emirates and less than half the national rate. BC enjoys over 20 percent of the population in some kind of retirement, capacity and memory can become a real issue especially when life engagement wains.

Succesful people have developed social skills over a life time that include an out going   sence of  giving to the community in a productive way and receiving back.

Diminishment seriously undermines  people’s ability to keep up  and sometimes makes engagement a struggle.

The Alzheimer’s Society of British Columbia is hosting a workshop  The me in Dementia at the Coast Canadian Inn Kamloops, March 28th 2014. ( 9 am to 4PM).Ph: 1 855-742-4803. Twenty dollars admission includes lunch.

Catch Phase: Increasing understanding along the Dementia Journey

Editors note:  We would like to acknowledge the efforts of  Gregory and  Colby Griffiths who as preteens have raised  monies in the  5 digit range for research into the disease by bottle drives. They also had the courage to lend their young voice to the in an interview last year on CFJC news in Kamloops.

Today in history: January 23 2002

A Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan and later murdered.