Serendipitous coincidences have occurred in my life occasionally and I am always amazed when it has happened. Today, I am again surprised.
I started this blog on March 6th, over a month ago, with a plan to attract ‘older persons’ in Ambleside who, like me, live alone in an apartment. There may be as many as three thousand of us in this small ten block radius of Ambleside.
In February of this year I came across a TV Ontario documentary on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities which led me to a University Health Network website in Toronto which has created a NORC Innovation Centre to enable retired people to successfully age in place.
https://norcinnovationcentre.ca/
As I hadn’t blogged in several years and had not even heard about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I was frustrated to see that I was getting almost no traffic on my blog. I tried to search for my blog and nothing came up on Google or Bing or any search for that matter.
Today, while I was once again searching the internet, one of my key words, ‘Ambleside’, found this March 6th article from the Ottawa Citizen.
Ambleside, which is part of the City of Ottawa, also has a large number of older persons who may improve their lives by setting up NORC’s in their buildings.
My hope is that once people understand the potential of a NORC committee in their building, it will be possible for these groups to support each other. The British Columbia Ambleside might even form bonds with the Ontario Ambleside.
