The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[purple_haize]

Where is the like button? I 2nd what Margo has said.

Pls don't bring previous grievances into this thread

I agree too.

and nice to have a thread for us seniors who have so much in common.

[serendipityricho]

My barbers a bit of a thinker.

He reckons-up to a stage in life---people say they fell over.

After that they say----i had a fall!

Can you all relate to that..........................Richo.

[margomeoz]

At least I qualify to join this thread. 😄

Born 1945 here.

I do read a lot of your threads darkie but I am one of the fortunate people with no health problems, well only very minor ones.

It is nice to have a seniors thread.

[green.fields]

Well I don't qualify but I'm over 18.......I think.

Hope you don't dwell on it being the "last long haul" but make the most of every day.

[thebraff]

I don't qualify yet, but I would have thought that Baby Boomers started in 1946.  The Post war babies, although I guess it takes 9 months to have a baby so late 1946 on would be baby boomers.

Enjoy your thread.  It is a great idea.

[purple_haize]

I don't qualify yet, but I would have thought that Baby Boomers started in 1946.  The Post war babies, although I guess it takes 9 months to have a baby so late 1946 on would be baby boomers.

Enjoy your thread.  It is a great idea.

According to Google Baby Boomers are from 1946 - 1961

[serendipityricho]

Like Margo posted earlier-im fortunate to be in good health

as well.

So many our age are not.

I believe keeping a sense of humour helps sometimes.

Im still in the work force because i need to pay the rent and eat.

At work im refered to as SOC.

It is supposed to stand for-Silly Old Chap-------

---but i know what they meanB-).

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......................Grey Power.............................................

[purple_haize]

You are lucky to have good health Richo.

I went to the dr. yesterday to get results of a CT scan I had done on my spine. Then she decided she wanted blood tests done, so had to fast and have them this morning.

Seems every time I go to the dr for one thing, I end up having to go for tests for something else.

The CT scan showed that I dont have osteo arthritis, so that is a good plus, but I do have spinal problems.

[bluepanda555]

The CT scan showed that I dont have osteo arthritis, so that is a good plus, but I do have spinal problems.

What a great thread, thanks for starting it. Darki I've just scraped in and am thankful to say my health is pretty good apart from some bits and pieces.

Purple I've just been diagnosed with stenosis in the spine which is a narrowing somewhere or the other  that causes pain sometimes.  My doc who never is fond of overmedicating says the right exercise can help enormously, like core strengthening, and I've found some good ones on the internet. Not that I'm saying it's for you ,  but just me. 

I think as you get older the right diet and exercise are more important than ever, I really believe in it. (though right now don't do much of either   ;\)  What do others think? 

[jean2579]

Darkie, 1944 here. The reason that we aren't labelled is that we were too individual to be part of a herd. LOL.