Living to 100

When Nova Scotian have a shorter life expectancy in Canada, why not also the country's largest group of centenarians in the country?
Sooner or later comes to us all: the moment when we must finally too old to care for us. If he comes, he must believe that there is a vacancy at the Villa St. Josephdu-Lac, Dayton tiny, NS It is run not only wood and furnishing employees of Holy Water, the house of the elderly or the luxury hotel feel, with thirty-foot ceilings, mammoth stone fireplace and oak parquet. It is believed that if we live, we can in our childhood, to have it as together as Fidelis Cameron sits straight-backed in her chair, immaculate hair perfectly coiffed silver, clothing and jewelry.

Sooner or later comes to us all: the moment when we must finally too old to care for us. If he comes, he must believe that there is a vacancy at the Villa St. Josephdu-Lac, Dayton tiny, NS It is run not only wood and furnishing employees of Holy Water, the house of the elderly or the luxury hotel feel, with thirty-foot ceilings, mammoth stone fireplace and oak parquet. It is believed that if we live, we can in our childhood, to have it as together as Fidelis Cameron sits straight-backed in her chair, immaculate hair perfectly coiffed silver, clothing and jewelry.

As the afternoon sun streams through the windows of the cathedral, his eyes dancing as she smoothly into the conversation to the fishermen of Pubnico her life as a wife of a dentist and growing steers d 'housewife in the Annapolis Valley and the 12 years she lived in the villa. Cameron talks about books she has read - "Oh, nothing too heavy" - to attend the Catholic Mass and play Sunday afternoon concerts in the lobby. When a visitor said, it looks like the ideal place to listen to music, she smiled, accomplices and replies, "Oh, he is. Want to hear me play?" And then, seconds later she's on the piano bench , feet bouncing to the rhythm of the old beginning of the 20th Century standards - "Baby Face", "Smile Awhile" and "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" - hovering perfectly manicured by the fingertips.

This, it turns out that this is the time that looks like 101 At least here aspire to the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia, one of the best places to live in the world, when you reach the century mark mythical. In fact, the rate of centenarians in the province - is around 165 for a population of 932,400 - only about half of what it on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the real land of Methuselah. But after calling home in Nova Scotia is, you are 1.5 times more likely to reach up to 100 Canadians as a whole, and nine times higher than the average citizen of the world. Moreover, thanks to medical progress and achieved 100 no big deal was. The number of centenarians in Canada by 21 percent between 1996 and 2001 and is likely to increase significantly by the year 2050. But even with this demographic Nova Scotia is a veritable Shangri-La.