ASHA is focused on Empowering and Enhancing the quality of life for all, as we age—not just serving our members—is our mission, and ASHA will link with other not for profit community organisations globally, during 2021-25.

At its centre, the work that  ASHA and its partners do can be summed up as: “We empower each individual to live their best life.” It’s all about real possibilities...Enjoy your Life!

Below Professor Laurence Chalip comments on ASHA's paramount publication "The Next Chapter of Your Life: A Guide" highlighting our focus and mission at ASHA, and Dr Farmer's, the Editor's background and experience in assisting his late ageing Dad.

Foreword on ASHA's: Next Chapter of Your Life.

"... As with any journey, a guidebook helps us to plan,

and

to choose the conditions and directions for our exploration.

This book enables the essential reconnaissance, planning, and voyaging.

It doesn’t propagandize or insist on a single pathway.

Instead, it describes tools, options, and opportunities. It does so comprehensively because it recognizes that this journey and the chapters describing it have social, psychological, and physical foundations. Each of those becomes a keystone that is illumined in the following pages.

Dr. Farmer brings a distinctive array of life experiences to the narratives in this book. He has advanced training as an educator and as a manager. He has taught and researched throughout the world.

He is a two-time Olympian. He cared for his ageing father during the final years of that man’s life.

Dr. Farmer brings the necessary breadth and depth of insight to all that he shares here. Yet, as useful as a guidebook can be, it is sometimes insufficient. We are social beings. Research repeatedly demonstrates that social support makes a positive difference in peoples’ lives. The people around us who support us help us choose the directions our life journey takes, and enable us to interpret all that we discover. So, one of the challenges of ageing is the consequent changes (and losses) in our personal systems for social support. Many of us find that we need new avenues to support us as we journey, and as we write the chapters describing that journey.

The Association for Strong and Healthy Ageing (ASHA) provides an essential complement to this book because it enables social support. Together the book and ASHA provide the fundamental guide and social support for writing the next chapter of your life..."

from Professor Laurence Chalip, George Mason University,

Foreword on ASHA's Book,

"The Next Chapter of Your Life: A Guide" to be released during 2022-23 by ASHA.