Please send all proposals to Editor Muriel Duncan muriel@ourkids.net

Share your ideas and esperience in acheiving

WELLNESS: body, mind and spirit

As retirement residence professionals respond to a population othat intends to live longer and better, they are rethinking their programs and amenities. Dialogue+ welcomes your article proposals on the increased emphasis on wellness in body, mind and spirit.

• What training does a wellness team need?
• What has raised the spirits of residents in your home?
• They came in at 75 and they are still here at 95. Are their wellness needs still being served? Serving two generations.

We also welcome

STORIES on other areas of your work in the retirement residence industry: health, food, programming, marketing, start-ups, renovations, customer tracking.

NEWS of innovation and achievement from individual residences and companies. We also appreciate hearing from readers who would like to be assigned a book or resource to review.

Article proposal deadline: June 16, 2009

News sections or department stories deadline: October 20, 2009

Submission

Send us a brief summary of your proposed article with a paragraph of background on your expertise and your writing experience, to let us know why you are interested in this topic. Please include your name, position, daytime phone number and e-mail address.

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DIALOGUE+ magazine is for you — to share your insights and your viewpoints with your peers. We accept submission proposals on any topic related to the retirement residence industry.

You should consider submitting to DIALOGUE+ if you are:

• A retirement residence professional in Canada or somewhere else in the world
• A resident with some insights to share
• An academic seeking an opportunity to share recently published research on aging issues
• Someone interested in retirement industry issues

If you are interested in contributing to DIALOGUE+, article proposals should be brief — one type-written page or less — and include:

• Your full name
• Current position
• Home and work addresses
• Telephone numbers (work, home and/or cell)
• E-mail address(es)
• A brief bio, including qualifications

Editorial procedure

After review of all proposed articles, the editor will advise whether or not your submission has been accepted. If it has, the editor will work with you to clarify style and structure, to finalize length and deadline details, etc. before you proceed with the actual writing. You will be consulted during the editing process.

We will do our best to reply to all proposals in a timely fashion.

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