SLOWLY but surely.

I was invited to be part of a local working group partnering with the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat (http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/seniors/) to hold a one day forum in Windsor, Ontario sometime this fall. The focus of this forum will be to encourage this area of the Province to be come AGE-FRIENDLY.

It's not that strategies haven't been attempted in the past, because they have. They've just met with limited or no success. My hope is that these forums will bring the needed pressure on the powers-that-be to make significant strides in this area.

Hamilton, Ontario, for example, is on the brink of claiming Age-Friendly status. They have been working to this end for some time. Toronto is heavily invested in this idea as well. Windsor? Not so much.

It's no longer a case of being ahead of the curve. If Windsor-Essex and all it's 'retirement destination' dreams do not act promptly, they will find themselves, quite solidly, at the back of the pack.