WRITE ACROSS THE GENERATIONS

Intergenerational communication and respect is fostered by writing for and about family members and more general audiences from different age cohorts. Older adults can foster a sense of family connections, fun, history, and social responsibility among the young through their writings.

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WRITE TO DOCUMENT THOUGHTS & EXPERIENCES

Profile: The oldest poet in our Celebrating Poets Over 70 anthology is Marion Fields Wyllie of Owen Sound, Ontario, born in 1906. Having published her first poem in The Globe in 1920, she has been writing and painting most of her life. Also – Centenarians, Review: Joan Chittister’s The Gift of Years, Grandmothers (Canada) to Grandmothers (Africa).

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Contact Info
Ellen Ryan, webhost: info@writingdownouryears.ca
Dep’t of Health, Aging and Society, KTH – 226, McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
(905) 525-9140 Extension: 27035
Ellen B. Ryan Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus,
McMaster University
Specialist in Aging: Psychology, Communication, Spirituality, Writing Facilitator
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