Greypath Seniors Newsletter

July 2008 http://www.greypath.com

Contents:

• Editors note
• New course on backyard food growing
• Think Tank- World role
• Primelife Corporation
• New Developments
• Grey Meet & Match
• Its not you, it's life these days
• Cartoon of the month
• Seniors interest DVD
• Latest Poll Results

Editors Note. Our membership continues to grow strongly every day. We have around 1800 visits a day now and a modest world reach that is steadily evolving. That said, it would be of value to us all if more people visibly interacted with the site,especially in the various forums. We truly value all input and a new member arriving in the coffee shop with their first post, is always a most welcome occasion there.

New Course on backyard food growing.

We are well underway with a new course on such. 'Food security' is an emerging problem for many seniors and knowing what's best to grow in the back yard, and how to grow it, should be a useful offering. We also have Monash University Nutrition Department working with is on a seniors nutrition needs  plan that, instead of saying, say, that  we need 5 milligrammes of vitamin X  a day and 500 grammes of carbohydrates or whatever,etc, we will actually provide a list that says, say, that  we need three slices of bread, plus a thin spread of maragine, plus a sprig of parsely, two cups of tea, or whatever, each day to get all of the nutrition we need.... That I can understand!

The Seniors Think Tank. The last Think Tank issue covered the matter of the sense of us seeking a world statesmanlike role and membership of the UN Security Council. The results were interesting in terms of seniors views on our global aspirations

Item 1. Should Australia take on a world statesman's role?

Maybe                24%

No                     34%  

Yes                    42%

Item 2. Should Australia seek a seat on the UN Security Council?

Maybe                10%

No                     26%

Yes                    64%

Item 3. What area of problems should Australia concentrate on?

Home                    14%

Home/regional         44%

Home/regional/global    42% 

The Primelife Corporation are a major retirement community operator and builder.They have kindly sponsored this mailer, and supported us for the past 12 months, so we would appreciate it if you would click through their banner above and have a look at what they have to offer to seniors thinking of life in a retirement community.

New Developments at Greypath. Working with Swinburne University final year students in IT (Information Technology) we expect to be able to launch the following soon:

Our own internal survey system with its first use being to test your feelings about the Australian Democrats and their bleak future

A wildlife care wikipedia, (a sort of encyclopedia made up of private peoples entries), that will be very user friendly for animal lovers and carers. The current docuwiki is simply far too obscure for most of us

A new greypath 3D Village. This is our version of the new virtula worlds, simcity, and similar offerings. It will be a 12 month project to build the first village, and then we plan for regular upgrades and featyure additons via the services of graduate studnets in the internet games arena.

Grey Meet & Match going well. No grizzles so far....

Links can be found via the forums and our home page, or click here. We have arranged a one month free trial for greypathers who may be interested.

Its not you, it's life these days.

Apart from short term memory loss that naturally comes to us all, [if we are lucky enough to get old!] on avergae we get well in excess of 3000 demands for our attention every day. (Noises, street signs, newspaper headlines, people talking to us, train arrivals, to do notes, phone calls, email, shop front promo's and much more.

Also much of what we need to do seems to be getting more complex and regulated. Changing an account these days is no longer a simple stroll to the Post Office or Supplier and a nice chat with someone who is 'across' their business and can actually help. It's more likely these days to become a digitised drama.

It no longer seems possible to live an urbanised life with all its benefits, and at the same time keep our lives simple. [Something one tends to wish for as we age]. I don't feel at all old, but, born in a small port town town in 1936, I do feel I am slowly becoming an anachronism in this third millenium.

Cartoon of the month

Do you have a cartoon you would like to see here? If so email it in and we will see if we can feature it and give you an Andy Wahol moment.

Have you got a cartoon we might be able to use here?

Seniors Interests DVD

Our first DVD called What you need to know in retirement is now available in the Greypath shop. At $15 including postage, (in Australia), it's a very good buy. Have a look in the shop to see what it covers in its 12 interviews and over two hours viewing with professionals in safer investing, wills, scams, fraud, pension problems,where to retire, and more. Click here to visit the shop . After a slow start the DVD sales have now taken off. With this encouragement, we will now proceed with the planning for our second DVD project on healthy ageing

Poll Result on what device we could least do without

The votes were interesting, not so much regarding the computer and Ipod outcomes, but mobiles being so lowly thought of.

Finally

We have had a few teething problems with things over the past two months. Our photogallery stopped behaving itself, our last mailer to you was so big it stopped the US server and brought us a rebuke, and we also went down for a period, when I pushed a wrong button!

We hope you found something of interest in this issue. If you have any comments or suggestions for future editions, feel welcome to mail us .

Our best wishes to you

The Editor and team

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