Is there a secret to aging gracefully? Well, if there is, members of the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) will be finding out soon. The members will be getting expert advice on ‘successful ageing’ during a virtual discussion to be held on Thursday (February 9) starting at 5:30 p.m. 

The speaker Dr Fredrick T Sherman is set to share some of the best tips on how to achieve ‘successful aging’.

Sherman who has been practicing, teaching, and writing about the care of middle aged and older adults for over four decades in the United States and internationally is well equipped to advise CCRP members on how to achieve that which is desired by many.

Ageing can be challenging, difficult and often scary (or enjoyable) to process. As time goes by, individuals have to adjust to facilitate the changes their lives and bodies undergo as they age.

With this in mind, CCRP aims to ease its members’ worries about ageing with advice on how to stay healthy, age successfully and enjoy midlife and beyond from this recognised expert.  

Dr Sherman has been working in the geriatrics field for decades, he is the recipient of the first annual American Geriatrics Society’s Clinician of the Year Award in 1990.

In 2001, he succeeded Robert N Butler, founding director of the National Institute on Aging, as the Medical Editor of Geriatrics, an evidence-based, clinical journal that addressed the health issues of middle-aged and older adults. 

He is the author of over one hundred clinical publications spanning his interests in the education of health care professionals in geriatrics, systems of health care for the elderly and office-based, functional assessment including over eighty editorials in geriatrics.

In 2008, Sherman received the prestigious Jesse H Neal National Business Journalism award, the ‘Pulitzer Prize’ of business journalism, for his editorials in Geriatrics.

Dr Sherman is married to Jamaican Pat Rowe adjunct Professor of Nursing and Founder of the Literacy is a Family Experience (LIFE) Programme operating in Jamaica and New York City.