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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2024 |
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Celebrate Seniors Week by honouring their many contributions to our community The BC Seniors Advocate’s website announces that Seniors Week this year is celebrated from June 2 to June 8.
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SENIORS WEEK JUNE 2 -8
During this week, we need to “take the time to honour and celebrate the contributions older people made and still make to our community,” a statement on the website says. Let us celebrate them this week and every day of the Older coming year. And Wiser According to the 2024 Simon Margaret Coates Fraser Factbook on Aging, seniors make up approximately 19.5 per cent of the population of adults in British Columbia. The World Health Organization is predicting that between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will nearly double from 12 per cent to 22 per cent. Older people are a growing segment of the population in our society, and they play a major role in the economy and the community. Continued on page 25
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