"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...."
Oh and... I have been going for remedial massage with a lady who has a practice nearby... she's very good BUT... how I wish she would not talk to me as if I was 85.
She has told me that I can get help any time I want it, that I can be driven to the shops, and that 'they' are now making it possible for us to stay in our own homes.
Yesterday she asked me if I had a walking stick because my back makes me a bit wobbly... not all that wobbly ๐
I come away feeling my back is great but I have aged 10 years. I really must put her right on this.
When I was in the ambulance gilli I went to several retirement homes in this area and some of them were lovely. Cottages with gardens, reasonable size and not something you would find at all dismal.
It depends of course on what's on offer up there, but as the Baby Boomers age the homes are improving :^O
Yes I will have to have a word to Kay... I was a bit surprised when she mentioned volunteer drivers... I have no thought of giving up driving yet, but will if I feel I am a problem to others on the road... but that's a long way off I'm sure.
Still waiting to here is wolf cub has got an offer on his property... he said he will email you when he has, he's really delighted at the thought of those tools :^O
Yes I will know when I am a problem driver.. I will do what all the oldies do... drive at 20 klm under the speed limit, not pull over and totally ignore the long line of traffic behind them X-(
