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...."

[freshwater-2]

Just clocking on...and waving to all you lovelies out there.

[purple_haize]

Morning everyone,

I havent been in for awhile.......back problems are stopping me from sitting too long.

It is great to remember how life use to be with our grandparents when we were growing up.

I can remember all the things mentioned by Zaidee...........I use to like the dripping on bread.....cant say I would like it now though.

Life was so much simplier back then, I miss it, but one thing stands out about my grandparents.........they had a simple life (as it was back then), they worked hard and they were always happy.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Gidday all you spring chickens im talking about all you dear sweet old people hahahahahahaha,

oh goodness, yes mum im still smiling too, see:-x

The last two days have been glourious days sunshine and looipops rainbows and i dont know the rest i forgot, lol

Yes many nice memories and then alot fogotten sadly.

I thought id pop in and say hello to you all and wish you all a wonderful day infact a beaut weekend,

take care, be safe and happy.

smile if it doesnt make you feel good then i t will surly make somone else feel good:-x

[serendipityricho]

Evening seniors-just lost a big post.

~~~waves to the regulars-and welcome back Purple.

[purple_haize]

Evening seniors-just lost a big post.

~~~waves to the regulars-and welcome back Purple.

Thankyou Richo........good to be back here!:-)

Very annoying when you lose a post.

[serendipityricho]

Some great oldies here Purple-ranging from super fit posters like

Freshwater-who looks after herself and the real gerries

-battle worn -like Darki,Zaidee --Me and others.

Gilly is beyond hope-lol.

Just a few Richoisms.

You cant keep all your rellies happy at the same time.

You cant make strawberry jam from dogs droppings.

Where theres a will ---------theres a relative.........Richo.

[serendipityricho]

Whoops-forgot -Grandmoon♥--.........Richo.

[purple_haize]

Good morning to all:-)

Richo....I am really feeling my age today, all my aches and pains that us oldies get.

Oh is my carer and lately seems he has to do more and more things to help me...........the joys of getting old!

[freshwater-2]

Richo, if you are losing your posts you may like to type your post in Word, and cut and paste onto the board.

My best friend from primary school days phoned me yesterday and we talked about how we budgeted by meeting for our office lunch break in Bridge Street, Sydney and sharing two crumpets with honey and a pot of tea for two shillings.

We had decided to save all our money towards buying a house together. We couldn't do it independently and a woman couldn''t get a mortgage no matter what her profession and salary, and had to pay cash for a house..  Some years down the track we were still short.  I took what I had saved to the bank and was one of the first women ever to get a mortgage.  From memory, the criteria was a minimum of  1/3  down and a payment which was no more than a 1/4 of your gross salary. (I also think that the bank manager had a thing for me too ;-)).

How times have changed.

[freshwater-2]

On a really serious note.....how many of you out there have completed an Advanced Care Directive?  This is an important document.  Google is your friend.