How To Choose a Digital Hearing Aid

For most people with mild to moderate hearing loss, a device called a digital hearing aid will likely be recommended by your family doctor or the audiologist. Digital hearing aids vary in discreetness levels, size, look and the amount of amplification they produce. They are in fact a type of wearable micro-computers which are either programmable or pre-programmable, can suppress background noise and are very lightweight.
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Getting to Know Our Online Canadian Federal Government

The Government of Canada works in three distinct levels. Federal, Provincial and Municipal. Each of these levels of Government has taken a unique approach in disseminating information over the Internet. All information is available to the Canadian citizen twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, ensuring faster, more in-depth and convenient access to services and information.
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Attention Cyber Seniors: Check Your Government Benefits Online

Seniors who are switched on, hooked up and connected can hop on the Service Canada Web site these days and get an excellent snapshot of their benefits without ever having to leave the comforts of home. The federal government has information about most of its programs and services on-line, including the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS), and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).
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Telemarketing Scams

Project Colt, an international task force on telemarketing fraud, has identified the most frequent telemarketing scams aimed at seniors. Based in Montreal, the Project Colt task force was started in 1998 to reduce and prevent telemarketing fraud coming out of Canada. It includes members of the RCMP, U.S. Customs, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Montreal police and the Quebec Provincial Police.
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