"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...."
Good morning Purple. So your OH is 7 years younger than you.
My long time 'boy' friend is 15 years younger than me
Darki...I found some information on the government power saving site...how to cut down on power charges for RC air conditioning.
I shall look for it and get back to you.
Thanks freshwater, I will be very interested in that.
:^O Gilly. After 3 husbands (and just one daughter) I know how to keep them in line and get my own way.
Darki..
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HEATING……Don't over heat. Keep rooms at a comfortable 18-21°C in winter. Every one degree increase in temperature can increase the heating component of your power bill by up to 15 per cent.
COOLING….warm up your air conditioning – if you use air conditioning how cool do you set it? 23°C or higher is the ideal temperature. Each degree lower can add 10 per cent to the cost
the website is ...www.savepower.nsw.gov.au
Oh there it is 🙂 Yes I understand that and I keep the heating in my bedroom at 17˚ which takes the frost out of the air.
The trouble with the underfloor heating is that you can't turn it down and get instant cool, so some days I have to open up the house to get the heat out... that is not the way to go at all X-(
Thanks freshwater 🙂
