Lögberg-Heimskringla - 05.02.1988, Blaðsíða 6

6-LÖGBERG CENTENNIAL YEAR, FÖSTUDAGUR 5. FEBRÚAR 1988
Elderly conference
A news release dated Jan. 14th,
1988 is billed as, "The first ever con-
ference on housing options for
seniors," and is scheduled for Oct.
4-6, 1988 at Halifax.
The Hon. Stewart Mclnnes,
minister for Canada Mortgage and
Housing corporation stated, that the
conference will facilitate discussions
between seniors, gerontologists,
bankers, architects, developers and
other senior related organizations. He
went on to say, "In the very near fu-
ture, seniors will be demanding more
and more varied housing designs,
support services and financing pro-
grams and we have to be ready."
Prior to the conference in October,
Mclnnes will meet with seniors and
related groups from coast to coast
and listen to their concerns on
housing.
This is an opportunity for senior
citizen organizations to present the
minister with proposals. Others in a
middle age group may also wish to
give thought to the question of living
arrangements in the future, when
they in turn will have retired and are
required to alter their way of living,
which is compatible to them and
their children who have young
families.
There are many angles to this ques-
tion of life during retirement years
and approach to the period when
physically, your capacity to cope
with life becomes a problem. It is bet-
ter to think ahead, than to deal with
age problems on a crisis basis, when
the siatuation demands immediate at-
tention and the solutions become a
severe readjustment to new condi-
tions and surroundings, dictated by
the facts of old age, that could have
been made more acceptable through
planning.
They mention such factors as home
sharing, reverse annuity mortgages,
and lifestyle communities.
The new Betestadur facility in west
Winnipeg is a form of lifestyle com-
munity living. It is a 74 single and
double bedroom facility 6 stories
high. The suites are of normal size
common to the average privately
owned block. It is not a downgraded
size from average living space. It has
a good size lobby, a lounge area, a
fairly large multi-purpose room with
an attached good size kitchen and
meeting room. Personal facilities are,
a hairstyling room, a library, an ad-
ministrative office, and laundry
rooms on each floor. Spacious balco-
Morgunblað interviews J. Asgeirsson
Work has been my main occupa-
tion during free hours, says Jón As-
geirsson, as he was being interviewed
by the Morgunblad in Iceland. Most
of us remember him as a former edi-
tor of Lögberg-Heimskringla. In
Iceland he is well known as a sports
commentator and after his return
from Winnipeg, as the managing
director of the Red Cross in Iceland.
Jón has been an avid traveller in his
duties, both as a sports commentator
and on behalf of the Red Cross. He
is known far and wide outside of his
native Iceland.
He is now occupied with managing
his own enterprise, which deals with
the arrangement of conferences for
groups which wish to foregather and
deal with matters of their organiza-
tion. Such meetings require well or-
ganized groundwork by way of
everything from agendas to locations
and physical arrangements, by way
of accommodation for the meeting
and delegates, in harmony with the
aims of the organization and financial
means. This type of organizing re-
quires wide experience and Jón is no
stranger to these problems.
As he says himself, "In all my
working years I have attended untold
Jón Asgeirsson
conferences world wide and I con-
cluded it was timely to offer this kind
of service here in Iceland. This is be-
ing directed mainly to people here,
who wish to meet and hold a confer-
ence, and to increase such gatherings
within the country."
He indicates, that he has always
had this idea in the back of his mind
and finally decided to launch the en-
terprise as a full time occupation.
As a director of the Red Cross and
world traveller, his paths must have
led to many areas where extreme
poverty and primitive accommoda-
tion meant both mental and physical
exhaustion, aggravated with the
limited means with which to help hu-
man beings fraught with extremely
difficult conditions of mere existence.
We wish Jón all the best and suc-
cess in his new enterprise.
nies are an adjunct to each suite.
Betelstadur is incorporated as a
cooperative, a non-profit organiza-
tion, owned and operated by the
members who are 90% residents of
the complex. It is a CMHC project
financed through the Manitoba
Housing and Renewal Corporation.
It is a good example of community
living by people in retirement years,
who feel comfortable within a com-
mon age group, where the life pace
is slower but are physically able to
care for themselves. The residents
have control over the administration
and hopefully will enjoy future rents
at a level below commercial rates,
since it is a self-sustaining non-profit
organization.
Last fall we published an article
and pictures of a portable home that
could be set on footings adjacent to
a residential house, where zoning or
zoning variation will permit. Being
built for portability, it could be read-
ily moved to another location as cir-
cumstances permit. This would allow
an elderly couple to live indepen-
dantly but in close proximity to their
immediate family in a modest cost
facility.
The possibilities are many and it is
never too early to move towards
planning life during the declining
years.
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