The realities of the workforce are rapidly changing. Workers aged 55 and over have been gaining a bigger slice of the employment pie since the 1990s. Older workers of tomorrow will be better educated and healthier than in the past. With a lifetime of experience, they will be well-suited to a job market which has become much less physically demanding. They're actively seeking meaningful part time and contract employment. Today's older workers are generally efficient, creative, versatile, able to display good judgment and capable of adjusting to change. Employers save and gain by keeping or hiring older workers.

How are the public and private sectors reacting to the aging of the workforce? Learn more about this changing situation - obstacles and opportunities.

Get ready to get creative! Last year, Statistics Canada reported that the number of Canadians aged 55 to 64 jumped by 28 per cent over the past five years to 3.7 million. Most baby boomers are redefining retirement by combining work with creative leisure time activities. It's never too early to start exploring options and opportunities. Informed, advance planning is essential to creating a satisfying and non-traditional retirement. The goals are to...

• Develop an understanding of how "empty" nesting and retirement may affect identity and lifestyle
• Develop an awareness of arts and aging resources available to communities and individuals
• Develop a personal action plan to help prepare for phased-in retirement transition
• Help participants understand what is involved in comprehensive and creative transition planning
• Demonstrate and discuss benefits of a variety of creative activities - art, theatre, drumming, creative writing, and music.

Picture an older woman producing internet TV shows, Skyping with her grandchildren, editing home movies, and operating a global business from her desk top. Now wave and say - "Hi Grandma!"

The fastest growing number of new business start ups are educated, ambitious, tech savvy and self-employed baby boomer women. Boomers represent about 40% of Internet users, businesses are going online to reach them.

From selling Art to Zebra skin (faux of course!) find out how real life high-tech grandmas are using the internet to start new business initiatives, earning extra income or growing social networks. Woman Boomers spend an average of 15 hours a week online engaged in a variety of activities. These range from keeping in contact with friends and family to researching, and eventually buying and selling products and services.

Today, baby boomers are also looking for more opportunities to take to the stage, get involved in the performing arts and have Find out how to start a dynamic Creative Aging Network in your neighbourhood or community. Depending on time available, this presentation can also include a 23 multi media presentation about baby boomer women in a documentary called The Sisters at Sixty - produced by Kathy Smith.

According to the New York Theatre Guide, Carole Lonner’s "The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What?" is must-see original musical celebrating the boomer generation. The play recently made its New York Musical Festival debut. The play follows a group of baby boomers as they valiantly struggle with the effects of gravity on their bodies, divorce on their hard-won bank accounts, grandchildren on their self images and the dating scene on their egos.

Today, baby boomers are also looking for more opportunities to take to the stage, get involved in the performing arts and have fun with - music, theatre, chorale, drumming and dance.

Find out how to start a dynamic Creative Aging Network in your neighbourhood or community. Depending on time available, this presentation can also include a 23 multi media presentation about baby boomer women in a documentary called The Sisters at Sixty - produced by Kathy Smith.

Learn more about the infinite ways you can tell your story and leave a legacy for children and grandchildren. The baby boomer drive to make a difference continues and is needed now more than ever before. Find out how one group of women in London Ontario, Canaada have mastered media and technology to tell their stories. This presentation supplies you with the tools and connections you need to activate your heart's desire and change your neighbourhood or the world. It will empower you to wake up, do something good and leave a legacy - whether it's in your community, nation or the planet.

This presentation will definitely rock your world! Click on the rockin' granny below.....