Holiday Strategies

Holiday Strategies

By Sherry Saurno (Reprinted from Senior Planet) We’re heading into that time of the year…the most wonderful, and the most stressful.  We know the holidays are stressful for anyone who has family…but they are equally trying for those who do not have family. Everyone...
Business for Good

Business for Good

Jan Hively and Moira Allan, Pass It On Network’s co-founders, share some encouraging news in this joint blog about their findings on how business for good is taking off – and ask if you see examples of what they are finding. Says Jan in Massachusetts: “I felt a...
Supporting Older Entrepreneurs

Supporting Older Entrepreneurs

I always knew that I would want to be busy and do meaningful work. And, I’ve been saying for years that the only thing that will get me to retire is having grandchildren. At my current age of 68, I still don’t have any, so I keep working. I love what I do so it...
A Telling Disconnect

A Telling Disconnect

Theresa Reid, PhD is Executive Producer and Host of the interview series, “Aging for Life.”   I’ve been heavily involved in the gun violence prevention (GVP) movement in the United States for a few years. Recently, other local group leaders and I were gathered in...
New Ways to Work

New Ways to Work

A Gift from Carleen Mackay, Our Workforce Expert in Hawaii … From full-time to part-time to some-of-the-time; from home to across town or across the world; for a fee, for free or for gain-sharing; many people must continue to work throughout their lifetimes. ...
From Panic to Purpose and Passion

From Panic to Purpose and Passion

When I was coming up to 60 I started to worry seriously about money. I am a solo ager who had chosen to work between my homeland, South Africa, and France. I couldn’t look forward to a comfortable retirement in either and in any event I didn’t feel like retiring. Oh...
First Weeks of Campaign to Combat Ageism

First Weeks of Campaign to Combat Ageism

By Estelle Huchet of Age Platform A first month of campaigning for ageing with equal rights! Online campaigning can be a frustrating activity. Millions of people are connected – and yet: who do we really manage to reach? We are now halfway in the #AgeingEqual campaign...
What names are they calling us now?

What names are they calling us now?

A Forbes Magazine contributor, Howard Gleckman, has started a New Year’s debate on what to call old people. He says that we’ve tried senior citizens, seniors, the elderly, elders, retirees, and even “gerontos.”  He mostly uses the term “older adults” that appears to...
“Talking it Through” by Anne Dosher

“Talking it Through” by Anne Dosher

​Leaders from The World Cafe ​often refer to ​their​ beloved Anne Dosher as the “Elder” and the “Guardian of the Soul of the World Café​.”​ Anne, who is now in her 90s, wrote about conversation as a life-affirming evolutionary act. Her call to action is as...
Seeing the End of Our Forever

Seeing the End of Our Forever

Here where I live, on a small peninsula called Cape Cod that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean from New England, negative changes in the environment are obvious. Some problems result directly from overdevelopment and careless use of natural resources – such as ground...
On the Move

On the Move

House-sitting in the Second Half of Life Meg is our Country Liaison for New Zealand. “We think we would love you to sit for us. But we need you to know we are not a pristine / new / ultra tidy lifestyle block! Dogs sometimes run through the house…the big back...
What Use Am I When I’m Weak?

What Use Am I When I’m Weak?

Onslaught Illness shows no mercy. It can stop you in your tracks and make you wonder what you’re good for when most days you can barely get out of bed. I’ve always been a hard worker and a social change agent, expressing my passions as a writer, community activist,...
Seeing the End of Our Forever

Being is Meaningful Work

For many years, my mantra has been, “Meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath.” For most of that time, I’ve been thinking about work as purposeful doing. For the last 20 years, since I shifted my professional focus on life-work planning from youth to...
You, too, could start a TTN chapter

You, too, could start a TTN chapter

Historically women have bonded together in groups to support and learn from each other. If the need and momentum is there, some grassroots groups grow into organizations. The Transition Network evolved from a small group of women who came together to talk about...
I love Japan

I love Japan

Moira Allan shares her meeting of a country and of ACAP – the Active Aging Consortium of Asia Pacific I’ve just returned from Japan. What an experience. What a discovery. I loved the country, the cleanliness, the organization and the thought that goes into everything...
Wrinkled Wisdom

Wrinkled Wisdom

My grandfather, Harvey Saunders, spent his life working out-of-doors as a lumberjack and forest ranger. As he aged, his elegant, strong and gentle hands developed creases, lines and dark spots. These huge, graceful and richly textured hands fascinated me. They exuded...
Seeing the End of Our Forever

Age Friendly Work in China

Pass It On’s co-founder, Jan Hively, spoke about the topic “Advocacy Leadership for Active, Positive Aging” at two December workshops about “Age-Friendly Work” that were convened by academic leaders in Shanghai and Hangzhou, China, sponsored by Ford Foundation China....

Who me, ageist?

How To Start Your Own Consciousness-Raising Group I’m an activist working to end ageism: discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of age. I’ve been blogging about it since 2007 at This Chair Rocks, where you can find my bio and my research; I give talks; and I’m...

The Encore Movement leads by example…

The Encore Movement is shifting expectations for aging. Back in 1960, U.S. President John F. Kennedy convened the first White House Conference on Aging with this challenge: “We’ve added years to life. Now it’s time to add life to those additional years!” A booming...

A Story about how this Network works

Who’s who: The author is Julie, freshly retired as a Higher Ed Administrator from the U.S.A. Moira is the Pass It On (PIO) Network International Coordinator from France, and Hans is the PIO Liaison for Iceland. (Hans has a U3A title I think?) July 29: Learning that I...

Passion – Paycheck – Purpose

About a senior gap year and the longevity paradox. I would love to take a senior gap year, right now, as I move from full employment to the next stage of my life that could well be 20 to 30 years. I would love the opportunity to explore new avenues, try new things and...

Madiba – Nelson Mandela

It was past 23h on December 5, 2013. I was up creating a collage of the Pass It On Network launch with Jan Hively in Paris in November, vaguely watching late night news on Aljazeera when the flow was interrupted. President Jacob ZUMA was about to address the people of...

Globally speaking, what do we have in common ?

The Pass It On Network is described as a « global exchange. »  Today, a reporter from Radio France Internationale, Alison Hird, asked me if I really believe that seniors around the world have enough in common to want to participate in an exchange.  She asked, « What’s...