Canadian Seniors Network (CSN) explores everything to do with becoming a senior or being a senior. CSN will discuss the Hard stuff, the Easy stuff, the Scary stuff and the Fun stuff. Ask your questions and the community will answer.
Canadian Seniors Network
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Canadian Seniors Network (CSN) explores everything to do with becoming a senior or being a senior. CSN will discuss the Hard stuff, the Easy stuff, the Scary stuff and the Fun stuff. Ask your questions and the community will answer.
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8/22/2018
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January 17, 2020
Elderly Marriage Breakups
<p>Across Canada there is a new and growing form of marriage breakup.</p><p>It’s not your average trial separation,</p><p>It’s not your average dissolution of marriage by divorce,</p><p>It’s of elderly couples being challenged, stressed, and being forced to separate from each other because of how our long-term health care facilities have limited and restricted availability.</p><p>Because the baby boomer generation has added a substantial number of health challenged elderly to our heath care system, which has not grown and developed fast enough, it is now causing an unprecedented concern for splitting up, long-term married elderly couples.</p><p>One might say that this is no big deal.</p><p>The healthier spouse can just go and visit the unhealthy one in their care facility.</p><p>But the fact is, some of the unhealthy spouses are being relocated to a different town or city because there is no current availability in their own community.</p><p>These couples have been married and lived together most of their lives, some for more than 60 years.</p><p>This kind of forced separation is unconscionable.</p><p>The Provincial and Federal governments have not been keeping pace with the funding for long-term care for the aging population.</p><p>It has been reported that in Ontario there are over 36,000 elderly on a wait-list to get into the proper long-term care facility.</p><p>Also, the individual costs associated with a spouse trying to stay united and supportive, in these health challenged times, is another factor that financially limits the separated couples’ companionship.</p><p>It’s not cheap to use a taxi to visit your spouse on a long-term basis.</p><p>It’s not cheap to drive hundreds of kilometers, then get a motel, then feed yourself, and to bring treats and snacks to your spouse, on a long-term basis.</p><p>You can only imagine the stress and despair if the healthy spouse does not drive or have access through a friend or relative to get to the care facility for visitation.</p><p>These couples have always had a strong bond with each other and deserve that same right until they both pass away.</p><p>Why should their lives end in despair, depression, and financial stress?</p><p>More action and funding are required to address the long-term health care requirements for our aging population, across Canada.</p><p>Doing a Google search, I can find information, mostly for Ontario and British Columbia, that has identified the problem of preparing for the future demands for long-term care for the elderly.</p><p>I’m quite sure that the other provinces also recognize the same problems and I hope we start hearing more from them on how they are moving forward with addressing and resolving the elderly health challenges.</p><p>Unfortunately, attempts to secure government funding and to increase the training and numbers to staff the facilities are not keeping pace with the yearly increases for demand.</p><p>There are many community and corporate advocates across Canada, but there doesn’t seem to be any serious priority within Provincial or Federal Governments to address this problem.</p><p>So, what can we do?</p><p>Well, whenever we here of a couple going through stressful times, due to long-term care and health challenges, then we need to tell their story to everyone involved with the healthcare, the media, and the seniors’ departments within the Provincial and Federal Governments.</p><p>Our voices need to be heard, and acknowledged, and acted on.</p>
December 22, 2019
CSN Update
<p>Greetings to all.</p><p>CSN podcast was created over a year ago, but life got in the way of life, so it didn’t get properly released.</p><p>Recently, I realized that some information & details within the first few episodes were now out of date.</p><p>So, instead of re-recording the first few episodes I decided to leave them as they are and just tell you of the minor changes to the podcast.</p><p>The podcast is still called “Canadian Seniors Network” or “CSN” for short.</p><p>But all website references to “CanadianSeniorsNetwork.ca” is no longer active.</p><p>Moving forward, all new website references will now be “RustyRushfeldt.com”.</p><p>However, you can still use “CanadianSeniorsNetwork.ca” but it will just be re-directed to “RustyRushfeldt.com”.</p><p>Hope this all makes sense. </p><p>If not, send me an email with your questions or concerns, or maybe suggest a topic for discussion.</p><p>That’s it for the update.</p><p>Rusty signing off.</p><p>Wishing you all the best,</p><p>Now it time for a nap.</p>
October 11, 2018
Online Surveys
<p><a href="#" target="_blank">Read the transcript ...</a>Today on Canadian Seniors Network Podcast Episode 002 we’ll talk about one possible supplemental income resource, commonly referred to as “Online Surveys”.</p><p> At first look, online surveys appear to be an easy way to make a few extra bucks.</p><p> So many internet sites talk about this strategy as an excellent way to subsidize one's income, especially for a senior, because it doesn't require a high-level of any particular skill and a senior may have the required free time to do the surveys, games, polls, or whatever the venue decided they needed to offer.</p><p> I initially thought that I should test out several of the dozens of online survey companies to make sure that this supplemental income option actually works, and I could give it an official stamp of "Senior Approved".</p><p> So, Just a heads up:</p><p> Before committing yourself to something you know very little or nothing about you should always do your research.</p><p> Go to a search engine like Google, type in "reviews for Canadian Online Surveys" or if you have already found an online survey company then do a google search for reviews for that company, and see what comes up.</p><p> Don't get overwhelmed by all the search results that come up. Take your time and read thru a few of them.</p><p> Some of the reviews may actually be sponsored/paid for reviews, but you will eventually find ones that are based more on someone's actual experience.</p><p> When I did the search for Canadian Survey Companies it became clear, real fast, that there are quite a few of them and the review comments were generally the same for each of them, which are as follows (these are my thoughts and my comments based on how I interpreted the online reviews):</p><p> • not all surveys will allow people to qualify to be part of them (based on all kinds of weird demographics).</p><p> • you must be prepared to spend a lot of time for very little reward.</p><p> • payouts are very small and may be fairly restrictive as to what you qualify to receive (points, gift cards, cash, free gifts, PayPal, etc).</p><p> • some companies even ask to install their own toolbar onto your computer (don't allow this unless you know what you are doing).</p><p> So, after I read a few reviews I decided that Online Surveys will not be a way for me to create a few extra bucks.</p><p> Don't get me wrong, this is just my opinion based on what I feel is right for me.</p><p> If you do your own research, and you are comfortable with what these online survey companies are asking and expecting from you, and you feel you have the spare time and energy, then by all means do what you feel is best.</p><p> I wish you all the Best and if you find a survey company that is better than the rest, then please let Canadian Seniors Network know.</p><p>www.canadianseniorsnetwork.ca </p><p>www.rustyrushfeldt.com</p>
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