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...."

[rosieglen]

Love that seniors card - and never ashamed to ask for seniors discount!!!!

[freddie*rooster]

Oh and talking about the Seniors Card, did you know that business operator's arn't allowed to ask you if you have a Seniors Card?

😮

[nicnacs_4u]

Hey PCT I`ll join you...1955 was a good year!!:-)

[purple_haize]

On a tuesday the local supermarket gives those with a Seniors Card 10% of groceries..........so the shop is full of us seniors.:^O

[darksideofthemoon]

Love the seniors card, know the number by heart.  I think it is up to us to remember it, they don't have to.

Oh yes, hearing, sight and arthritis... two knee replacements and they are great.

Glucosamine for arthiritis, that seems to help a lot.

[purple_haize]

I have glaucoma as well:-(

[the_hawk*]

I dont fit in

but if I did I would be concerned about finding myself in some magazine after the carry on from the cancer thread

just a thought

[cindy.elle]

So can I ask ask some questions about the seniors card for my mother please?

She just got one not long ago, well a couple of years ago, but I don't think she knows about 10% off shopping days etc?

Is there somewhere where there may be a list of perks for seniors to get discounts?

🙂

[grandmoon]

Council on the Aging sends out a book each year with the discounts in it.  Also she needs to look for signs in the different shops such as the supermarkets and the Chemists.  Some hairdressers and barbers too.

[nicnacs_4u]

Hawkie I never thought of that...ty:-x