Travel.

35 - Sunday, September 21, 1986 - North Shore News

Travelling seniors encounter special problems

THE CBC has asked me to
participate in a travel pro-
gram they present called The
Best Years.

It will be filmed at the West Van
Senior Citizens Centre Oct. 6,

Anyone (preferably seniors) who
would like to drop over about 3
p.m. is welcome to. Participants
will get a chance to air their travel
gripes or their recommendations in
living color.

So, as part of a rehearsal for this
monumental event, I thought I
should get busy and consider some
of the problems of travel that
might be unique for seniors.

A couple of years ago I was hav-
ing a chat with a doctor aboard a
cruise ship. I had assumed since so
many older people enjoy cruising
that he must get a large number of
patients with age-related ilinesses.

Did he set me straight! First he
pointed out that all three of my
teen-aged daughters had been to
see him with minor ailments and
you wouldn’t catch any older per-
son coming to him with something
dumb like sunburn.

Older travellers, he told me,
have a good balance between
common sense and health. ‘‘Sick
people stay home.”’

Want to know who got most of
his attention? The crew!

But there are some problems
that only seniors may have to deal
with,

Obtaining a passport: In its
great wisdom, our government has
decreed that some older birth cer-
lificates are unacceptable. This

by

may send you on a fine wild-goose

chase.

Just to complicate things a bit
further, your parents may have
lied to you. Or told you the
“truth” the way they believed it to

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Wy

be. Many foreign-born people
assume that they are a naturalized
citizen when the legal papers were
never filed.

travel
wise
Barbara McCreadie

I’ve even heard from people who
were born in countries that no
longer exist or where records were
destroyed during wars and other
catastrophies.

Any senior who thinks he may

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started with his passport applica-
tion in good time.

Planning the trip: A senior citi-
zen must accept more responsibili-
ty in planning than someone
younger. He, alone, can consider
his limitations. What the hell is the
use of going on a tour that features
concerts if your hearing isn't all

that good? Or visits to a number
of vineyards if your stomach isn’t
up to the stuff?

Many older people decide that a
packed tour is the answer -—~ no
bags to carry, hotels to find or
transportation to worry about.

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