Who are Raema and Camille?
Raema and Camille are sisters in their sixties who collaborated on Loris
and Lucy's Later Life Guide - a guide that aims to help women better manage
their health and wellbeing. The guide can be ordered on this website.
Raema (Loris) is Spanish-looking with strong opinions on almost everything but particularly on ageing in Western society. Like a lot of women in the 1950s Raema married young and had two children after working in sales and modelling. She lived on the Gold Coast, Queensland for three decades and returned to her home town of Melbourne three years ago. Raema loves cycling around the Yarra Trail, walking and attending regular exercise sessions. She also loves movies, art exhibitions, antiques and op shops and best of all, having a mugaccino and a good laugh with her women friends.
Her main interests are women's health, women's rights, women's role in politics, social justice issues, reading, the arts and adult learning.
Camille (Lucy) has always shown creative tendencies with varying results. A face-puller since she was six, you can see she hasn't changed much. After some theatrical training and sales and office work, Camille married young-ish and had one child. Later, she returned to study and work, becoming a journalist in her home town of Melbourne. Camille's career spanned 20 years during which she worked in mainly journalistic roles. On leaving the full-time workforce in her fifties, Camille enrolled at university to continue her education. Camille keeps reasonably fit by attending yoga and exercise classes, walking and occasionally cycling.
Her main interests are: women's health and wellbeing, ageing, the arts, writing, reading, family and friends, communicating, trying new things and further education.
Both Raema and Camille are doting grandmothers.
For the past two years Raema and Camille have been writing their book, Loris
and Lucy's Later Life Guide and laying the groundwork for this website. A
publishing company, Lorilu Press, has also been established.