<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Un-International-Day-of-Older-Persons on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/un-international-day-of-older-persons/</link><description>Recent content in Un-International-Day-of-Older-Persons on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/un-international-day-of-older-persons/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>National Seniors Day</title><link>/posts/national-seniors-day/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/national-seniors-day/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[caption id=&amp;ldquo;attachment_4608&amp;rdquo; align=&amp;ldquo;aligncenter&amp;rdquo; width=&amp;ldquo;642&amp;rdquo;]&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2020/National-seniors-day/i-9p5VBJW/0/LqfZxtMH4dGJfXpC4q6jgBP9R5KxQvwb7HXvDnsP5/D/AFP_8QU76B-scaled-e1601298470879-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2020/National-seniors-day/i-9p5VBJW/0/LqfZxtMH4dGJfXpC4q6jgBP9R5KxQvwb7HXvDnsP5/D/AFP_8QU76B-scaled-e1601298470879-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;SENIOR CITIZENS COME FROM ALL WALKS AND TALKS OF LIFE.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
                                                                                                               &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~ Jean Janki Samaroo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;[/caption]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On October 1st which is tomorrow, Seniors are being celebrated in Canada and internationally as well.  In Canada, it&amp;rsquo;s called &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;National Seniors Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  October 1st is also designated by the UN as the I_&lt;strong&gt;nternational Day of Older Persons&lt;/strong&gt;_.   I&amp;rsquo;m sure many Seniors don&amp;rsquo;t even know about it.   Seniors tend to be seen as a &amp;ldquo;dying breed.&amp;rdquo;  We all know what happened in long-term care homes during this COVID-19 time.  Many Seniors succumbed to the virus. We older persons as a whole have to be very cautious and extra careful these days as the Coronavirus is still very much here.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>