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...."

[darksideofthemoon]

Vote????

Wot?  When?  Why?  Where?  😮

[kengillard]

By election I think darki

Morning all♥

[purple_haize]

Good morning all:-)

We have to vote, but not today, have to send to council by the 26th in a postal vote.

Have a great day everyone:-)

[grandmoon]

Vote????

Wot?  When?  Why?  Where?  😮

Here in the ACT or Canberra to those who don't know us, we have to vote for our State Government.

We get to vote once every four years it is always in October.

Why because the otherside thinks that after 11 years it is their turn.

[darksideofthemoon]

Ah thank you everyone 🙂  now I know... 

That's as good a reason as any other I imagine :^O

[grandmoon]

Morning all

Was able to sleep in this morning.  I have watered the veggie garden.

I am being taken out to lunch by my oldest Granddaughter and my son and DIL are coming too.

[kengillard]

A special occasion grandmoon?    Enjoy.

It's OH bday next saturday (as he keeps reminding me) so I spose we'll be going out for lunch too.

Morning all♥

[purple_haize]

Good afternoon Gerries:-)

Nothing much happening here today...

I will be continuing to delve into family history on my mothers side, trying to find my G. Grandfather, it is a pain when they changed their names.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable afternoon.

[kengillard]

Hi Grandmoon.......who won the election?  OH says Lib. but he get's things wrong sometimes

[grandmoon]

Hi Grandmoon.......who won the election?  OH says Lib. but he get's things wrong sometimes

Because we use the Hare Clark system it will be a few weeks before we have a full result.  At the moment it looks like the Libs may have 8 seats and Lab. 7 seats the Greens maybe 2 seats and the last one is the doubtful.