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"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 ๐
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 ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Darki........I think that back in *grandma's* day and in my early yrs, what they ate and I ate was alot healthier than what we eat today.
Food was simple back then and made from scratch and from what I remember there wasnt the obesetity that is around today and people were alot healthier.
There wasnt junk food, if you ate between meals it was only fruit.
So, mlaybe we should all go back to bread and dripping.:-)
I think you are right purple and of course so much of our food now is 'processed' to stop it spoiling in the shops. Really the only safe food to eat is home grown vegetables and fruit, other than that it is hard to find a healthy way to eat.
I suspect that in many cases the junk food is all anyone eats... there seems to be a serious lack of knowing how to cook proper food any longer and now that both parents need to work to keep their heads above water there isn't the time for the afternoon cooking to prepare for the nighttime meals.
I keep my food pretty simple, but even so I know it isn't the same as when we were youngsters. ๐
When you come to think of it, cooking back then was a real skill and one that is slowly vanishing.
Huxley's Brave New World is here and now. Do you ever remember reading it and thinking how awful it would be to live that way?
:-x thanks darki
Hello everyone ๐
Got lots to do today, so just popping in to say hi.
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:-x thanks darki
Hello everyone ๐
Got lots to do today, so just popping in to say hi.
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Hi ya beani love, how's your mum? xxxx
Blerk low fat milk and cereal for breakfast. I have meusli, kiwi fruit and low fat yoghurt, which still feels like the real thing ๐
Well a lot of people worked their butts off beach, but not everyone. My Grandfather was doctor and so he didn't really do any labouring work. My Grandmother sewed for her four daughters, including their school uniforms and blazers, they were hard working, but not in the way you mean.
I think most of it has to do with processed food that has to have preservatives in it to keep it from rotting... OMG, what a terrible thought ๐ฎ
I tell you one thing, our parents and grandparents were not too worried about technology, even cars were mechanical and not computerised...
We dialled a phone number and if it sounded busy we hung up, we didn't think the line might have been out or order.
Mind you, do any of you remember the rolling blackouts back in the late 40s early 50s? Where they actually turned the power on so women could cook dinner?
Now that was a worry.
