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With 2018 coming to a close, now seems the perfect time to take a moment to reflect on what we accomplished this year, and to give thanks to those who supported and helped us achieve our goals in 2018. Our wonderful Stitch members First and…

One of the best ways to get to know other members of the Stitch community is by creating and attending events. Sydney based Community Champion, Linda, wrote the following post about her own experiences as the organizer of the Inner West Brunch Bunch, a monthly…

For most people, the holiday season is a time for festivities and merriment. It’s a time for carolling around the Christmas tree and indulging in eggnog. A time for catching up with loved ones, showering them with gifts and feasting on a grand turkey dinner…

Positive lifestyle choices are increasingly showing to have beneficial effects on our brain health, to the extent we can now help reduce types of dementia such as the most common, Alzheimer’s disease. In 2016, the University of California, Los Angeles released results from a four…

Talk about a crazy trip. Phileas Fogg’s journey around the world took eighty days to complete. I had to do mine in ten! It began with a business meeting scheduled in Phoenix, Arizona, followed by the 2018 Great Stitch Get-Together in Saratoga Springs, New York.…

Smallpox. Cholera. The plague. Infectious diseases as the above automatically spring to mind when we think of epidemics. What doesn’t automatically spring to mind is loneliness. Or social isolation. However that is exactly how loneliness and social isolation is being heralded – as a 21st…

When dedicated social media accounts are set up to expose the lewd and inappropriate comments and behaviour of men on online dating forums, you know we have a problem. An increasing number of women are coming forward to expose the lewd and inappropriate comments and…

The year is 1981, and two groups of men in their 70s and 80s are taken to an old monastery in New Hampshire. The monastery, they discovered, was decorated as if it were 1959, 22 years in the past. Everything from the furniture and carpet…

In developed nations, women live on average 6-7 years longer than men. This is true in all locations except for one – Sardinia, a remote and mountainous Italian island in the Mediterranean. It is here where longevity is prevalent among women and men. It is…

We all know the importance of friendships on our health and wellbeing, but how long does it take to progress from acquaintance to casual friend? Casual friend to true friend? According to Jeffrey Hall from the University of Kansas, it takes roughly 50 hours to…

This article is a guest post written by our friend Danielle Kunkle Roberts, a Medicare insurance expert at Boomer Benefits. Her team help baby boomers navigate Medicare in the USA.  In my many years as a Medicare insurance expert, I’ve had the opportunity to see how…

Drink water. Don’t smoke. Exercise regularly. We know what we have to do to stay healthy; after all, we’re told often enough. What we’re not told often enough is this: that our friendships and relationships play a prominent role in keeping us happy and healthy,…

Search the internet and you’ll find that on any given day the world is celebrating something, whether comical or profound. From Pirate Day, International Joke Day or Peach Month, there’s no shortage of interests to recognise and commemorate. Today is a celebration we wholeheartedly embrace…

I’ll start this post with an apology: it’s a long one, as there is a lot to cover! If you are short on time, however, don’t be alarmed. I’ll start with an executive summary so you don’t need to read the whole dang thing. Executive…

If you’re not yet a Stitch member, you won’t know about the exciting plans for our historic 2018 Global Get-together, this time in Saratoga Springs, New York, from October 5th to 8th. Inspired by the success of Stitch’s inaugural gathering in 2017 in Monterey, California,…

Stitch New Feature Roundup We’re constantly making improvements to Stitch and how the community works, which means it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all the latest changes. That’s why, every so often, we do a roundup of all changes, new features, and…