26 - Sunday, December 15, 1991 ~ Nort: Shore News Seniors’ housing THIS LITTLE book is a great job of work. For you and me, knowing that one of these days we will have to give serious consideration to changing our living quarters, it could be a Godsend. It’s called Housing Options for Older Canadians, published by Self-Counsel Press, written by Jim Wilson, who lives on the North Shore and has himself fac- ed and dealt with: unwelcome but irreversible changes. His style of writing is inviting and friendiy. He’s frank and honest and reasonable and in- sightful, and he’s designed a lot more for his readers than just a plain text. Every single aspect of the multiple choices available and decisions pertaining thereto has its own work sheet accompaniment. . You not only can ask yourself, “Does this place appeal to me?’’, but you'll have at hand a list of things to check off and. sum- marize, thus clarifying your im-. pulses and helping clinch your - assessment... :He’s generous with cautions and reminders. Any change of such magnitude must please both paz- ties, which demands that tough attitudes. be - taken towards the kind of ‘neighborhood, the prox- imity.of shopping, the frequency of-transport available," and all manner of . other things. once you've: agreed on the fi rst: hurdle. Which is money. _If you: are ‘making the “decision alone, as’ Jim himself had to do, he caytions you to take your time. Though he’s very content- with his | new : dwelling, he feels. he was much ‘too precipitate, that rather ‘ thanis r iously wanting to. move he was," infact, merely wanting tc run away from’ the memories his oid house harbored. ThE upshot ‘cf it is that he will face ‘yet. another. move,. replaced « hip. begins to tairs:: “and ‘when- his: ne > skills fall below par. ista ‘fact. that only. a: small ever’ anticipates’ "such 2 need oa ‘fi himself anyway. This makes . ‘Op’ part of . what Jim. calls the private,, or inward, ° focus. one. shouldgbring to the choice of a’ ~» new ofablishment, ¥ the practical is taken ¢ care lordability and secure tenure an "manageability - and. so on, think too of your own personal Style and priorities. Are you _ essentially an optimist? Are you ~sociable? ._Do you prefer small town's rt of life, or are you a sw- ; Don't fool around with your future by locking yourself into a commiunity or environment that in time will prove distressing. * ESTATE JEWELLERY ¢ °2.25 ct Diamond B . Ring — 18k Gold Always purchasing ¢ Consignment welcome - 1130 MARINE DR, WEST VANCOUVER 926-7710 panseoeesee Eleanor | Godley THE VINTAGE YEARS He places very sensible em- phasis on money, and the most advantageous handling of same. One section in particular describes at length the financial dilemma of a lone woman in Sur- rey. She’s alone in the house she’s occupied for 20-cdd years, her children are grown, she’s finding OLOEROROEEE GOEL ELOIL COL Ste Auxillary to Lions Gate Hospital invites® you fo Christmas shop In our gift store Slocated in the main lobby. off with presentation of this ad uniil Dec. 3f (A few exceptions) 245% UNIQUE GIFTS LINGERIE ‘‘ SIS guide a godsend it a strain to cope with garden and two-storied house. Should she sell and use the money to live on and pay rent? Or should she buy some space with a good down-payment and invest the rest? What about co-ops? What about sharing the place? What about a mobile home? All her options are clearly pres- ented and carefully expanded upon. In addition, he’s researched the geriatric housing alternatives in every one of our Canadian pro- vinces (Saskatchewan wins), and includes graphs and charts show- ing trends in senior migrations and the role climate plays and other sensible stuff about money. Also thoughtfully provided are office addresses and _ telephone numbers for seniors’ services in each of the provinces and ter- ritories. Some elderly people are .pulied back to their roots. They want to go home. He shows how to find out if amenities are avail- able in those places. If you’re at heart a mover, like me, it’s rather a lark. Since my darling and I lucked our way into our first tiny flat in Vancouver, in wartime, I have personally orga- nized i4 moves. One actually lasted for 10 years, one for about BABY & INFANT WEAR STUFFED ANIMALS XMAS ITEMS Sanit shops Lions Gate Hospital ar East 15th, North Vancouver SL cvseseseste six weeks. It does tend to pare one’s interest in possessions. Certainly our present address is in very pleasant territory, comes with lots of trees and a liberal mix. of generations and cultures, plus handy shopping and good four- way transportation. But it has stairs. It also hss outside space that begs to be attractively gardened, but for which I now have neither energy. I feel guilt, therefore, and up- braid myself. Where’s the next way-station on the way to heaven? and has the time perhaps come to take inven- tory of failing vigor, of intima- tions of arthritis, to pull back from commercial involvement, to admit frankly one is no longer equal to potting and re-potting and sweeping and squatting and caring for more space than ‘one actually needs? When I do give in, Ili have Jim Wilson’s book in hand, like a lit- tle lantern. inclination nor ° . 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