Zoomer Magazine

ZOOMER is Canada’s exciting magazine for Canadians 45 and up. Each issue brings you tips on living healthy, staying fit, and making your money last. Enjoy travel advice, arts and food reviews, stylish shopping, health breakthroughs and secrets to successful intimacy. Plus, meet fascinating celebrities, spiritual leaders, authors and more!

Zoomer Magazine • VOLUME 41, NUMBER 1

Contributors Letter

From the Editor-in-Chief & Publisher: Suzanne Boyd

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Wisdom of the Ages: Your guide to Happy, Healthy Living • A DIGEST OF NEWS AND VIEWS TO INSPIRE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

A Digest of News and Views to Inspire Body, Mind and Spirit

The Oldie Index: Defying Ageism, One Senior Moment at a Time • Defying ageism, one senior moment at a time

Later in Love: Independent Woman Falls for Consummate Gentleman

Faking the Big O!

The Non-Retirement Plan: For Entrepreneur Myra Sable, it’s Gourmet all the Way • OWNER, SABLE & ROSENFELD, A GOURMET FOOD COMPANY. AGE 84

Style with Attitude: Odessa Paloma Parker, the Exuberant Mix Master • CULTURE VULTURE, FASHION COMMENTATOR AND SOMETIME DJ, AGE 43

Zoom In Exchange: Money News and Views that Matter to you

Agenda: Why are Politicians Gambling with Seniors Benefits? • Politicians are playing a cynical game of parliamentary poker and the ante is seniors benefits

POV: Libby Znaimer Says “Yes” to her Niece’s Dress

A Perfect Storm: Inside the Tragic Case of a Family Torn Apart over Conservatorship • As Canadian elders reach the twilight years with $1 trillion to pass on to heirs, baby boomer children are launching legal fights over their cognitive abilities that are clogging courts, draining estates and sawing branches off family trees. Part One in a continuing series investigates how assessing mental capacity is a minefield

Calling The Shots: Jamie Lee Curtis Gives us a Piece of her Mind, Body and Spirit • IN AN UNFILTERED, EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW, HOLLYWOOD ICON JAMIE LEE CURTIS GOES FULL MAMA BEAR WITH SHANDA DEZIEL

Garden Of Earthly Delights: Lifestyle Guru Richard Christiansen x Mother Nature • Flamingo Estate, the home base of the buzzy Los Angeles-based lifestyle brand favoured by celebrities and the fashion set, proposes a fresh new formula for healing, where hedonism meets health

A Royally Good Life: India Hicks Celebrates her Mother Lady Pamela’s Life of Style, Duty and Friendship with the Queen • India Hicks celebrates her mother Lady Pamela’s life of style, dedication to duty and friendship with the Queen

Oh Mickey You’re So Fine: Disney Does it Right for Guests with Disabilities • How my first trip to Disney World blew my mind

Experiences: A Luxury Cannabis Retreat; Alone Time in the Faroe Islands

Images of Canada: The Look of Laurentian Luxury

Far & Wide: Shakira S’Aida’s Portugal • Singer/songwriter/actress Shakura S’Aida’s career has taken her all over the world. Here, the Brooklyn-born, Switzerland-raised and Toronto-based S’Aida gives us a tour of her favourite country

Feeling a Bit Extra? These Haute Hotel Perks Might Help • Hotels are coming up with imaginative additions to their services that will make you want to click “BOOK” just to see what happens

Mind the Gap: Your Generational Guide to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah • PEAK PERFORMANCE: Robert Redford’s Sundance film fest welcomes the best indie filmmakers to world-class ski town, Park City, Utah, for 11 days of innovative flicks

Asia Mother: A Milestone Birthday Leads a Mother and Daughter on a Far-Flung Journey • Oak, which represents strength, longevity and wisdom, is the traditional symbol to mark an 80th birthday, but for her free-spirited mother’s milestone year, Viia Beaumanis finds six weeks on the...