The Council for Black Aging Community of Montreal 18th Annual Conference, titled Health & Wellness: Beating The Odds held on Saturday October 26, 2019, at Le Nouvel Hotel & Spa was well attended and an overwhelming success. CBAC Executive Director Katrina Nurse, CBAC Administrative Assistant Junora Etienne The Council’s target...

Originally appeared in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 27, Number 21 October 17, 2019 Aging is an inevitable aspect of living. Its absence from general school curricula has generation after generation of young adults living in the moment, not thinking or planning too far ahead, thus ignorant and unprepared for...

Originally appeared in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 27, Number 20, October 3, 2019 Given size of community, we’ve all known someone or heard stories of members who died alone in their home and whose body was only discovered days later. Per a CTV Montreal January 2019 article: “An estimated...

By Elsie Weekes (Delivered at CBAC’s January 24, 2019 Community Lunch) How many of us have experienced pain within the last year and was told not to worry that it is due to aging? I believe that a lot of us have received this answer. I am here to let...