{"id":29291,"date":"2025-01-08T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/?p=29291"},"modified":"2025-01-08T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:39:21","slug":"staying-healthy-until-youre-100-an-active-independent-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/news\/staying-healthy-until-youre-100-an-active-independent-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying healthy until you’re 100: an active, independent life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00ab In the m\u00e9dias \u00bb<\/strong> By Hugo Duchaine<\/a> – January 4, 2025 – <\/a>Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>.

The Savoie Family is proud to share with you this lovely article that recently appeared in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al, in which one of our residents – at the dawn of her 102nd<\/sup> birthday – shares the secrets of her longevity. Among them: staying busy, all the time!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
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Mme Lorrain, qui aura bient\u00f4t 102 ans, sort des muffins du four de son appartement aux R\u00e9sidences Soleil, \u00e0 Mont-Saint-Hilaire.\u00a0<\/mark><\/strong>
PHOTO AGENCE QMI, JO\u00cbL LEMAY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A South Shore senior who turns 102 in a few days still cooks her own three meals a day and makes jars of spaghetti sauce for her loved ones.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing busy all the time,\u201d Fernande Lorrain reveals about her secret to living so long, while maintaining good health. \u201cI’m happy, life is good and I don’t look forward to dying as long as I’m independent,\u201d she continues.

At the dawn of her 102nd<\/sup> birthday, the resident of Manoir Mont St-Hilaire never sees her days go by. And, best of all, she can boast that she cooks all her meals. \u201cI make beef Stroganoff, dumpling stew, shepherd’s pie, spaghetti sauce,\u201d she lists. \u201cAnd lots of desserts,\u201d adds her daughter-in-law, Sylvie Simoneau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Fernande Lorrain with her daughter-in-law, Sylvie Simoneau. Photo Agence QMI, JO\u00cbL LEMAY<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She still treasures \u201cher cookbook\u201d, a precious Graal that holds yellowed sheets with faded writing and is held together by several rubber bands. Fridays and Saturdays are the two days she always devotes to cooking. Now a widow, she had even taught her husband to cook, certain that she would leave before he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dedicated teacher<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If life is smiling on her today, Mrs. Lorrain reveals that her childhood in Montreal’s Saint-Henri district was more difficult. She was only three years old when her father died, forcing her mother to work and leave her children in the care of a hospice. Resilient, Ms. Lorrain believes that having suffered loneliness when she was younger, it affects her less today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But her eyes sparkle when she talks about her 30-plus-year career as a teacher and principal in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never missed a day of school,\u201d she says, adding that she even received a full year’s salary as compensation for the countless sick days she didn’t take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida and volunteering<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When she retired, she plunged into volunteer work. \u201cShe always gave of herself,\u201d explains her daughter-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, she looked after new immigrants, many of them from Vietnam. She was in charge of sponsoring them with Quebec families to help them navigate into their new lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Lorrain enjoyed the Florida sun for 20 years as a snowbird, and survived colon cancer, she recounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading and Scrabble<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Having always loved reading, she still devours at least three books a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always read,\u201d says the centenarian. I remember when I was a teenager, my sister and I used to put a blanket over our heads and read in bed with a lamp, so that my mother wouldn’t notice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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At almost 102, Fernande Lorrain is still an avid reader and Scrabble player. Photo Agence QMI, JO\u00cbL LEMAY<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She is particularly fond of novels by Danielle Steel or Louise Tremblay-D’Essiambre, which she now reads with a magnifying glass rather than a lamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also plays Scrabble virtually, on her tablet, with around fifteen other people, including her daughter-in-law, who struggles to keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe’s all there and well anchored in 2024,\u201d impresses Ms. Simoneau. \u201cI’m well looked after and pampered,\u201d adds her mother-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab Dans les m\u00e9dias \u00bb Par\u00a0Belizaire Raphael – 3 octobre 2024 dans le Courrier Laval. La Famille Savoie est fi\u00e8re de vous partager cet article du Courrier Laval paru au d\u00e9but du mois d\u2019octobre, alors que Les R\u00e9sidences Soleil Manoir Laval c\u00e9l\u00e9braient les r\u00e9sidents dont c\u2019\u00e9tait la f\u00eate du mois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1530,1548,1723,1541,1520,25918","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44],"tags":[],"global_category":[],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nouveaute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29312,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions\/29312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"global_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/residencessoleil.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global_category?post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}