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Bruna Swerts – October 3, 2022 “To be a rock and not to roll.” That sentence has been causing me pain since I was 14 years old, too young – no, the correct term is under-aged – to be doing all the things I was doing while listening to Stairway to Heaven for the first...
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Bruna Swerts – September 26, 2022 A few days ago, the Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing, our very own Dr. Jane Barratt was recognized as one of the Healthy Ageing 50 – an initiative within the Decade of Healthy Ageing by the United Nations to...
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Bruna Swerts – August 29, 2022 What are you afraid of? This particular question was brought up quite recently by my acquaintances. I heard from a friend that he is afraid of having his heart broken. Another one, despite having trouble admitting it, was afraid of...
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Bruna Swerts – August 22, 2022 Older is not necessarily better – or is it? From certain alcoholic beverages to a pair of Levi’s jeans, it is undeniable that the passage of time can produce spectacular outcomes. What if we found the secret to ageing like fine wine?...
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Bruna Swerts – August 15, 2022 How seriously do you take the words of an older person? In a world driven by consumerism and purchase power ( or is it frequency?), younger persons are taken as the primary audience for almost anything, from product launches to political...
