"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...."
PHew! it wasn't me panda :^O
Had a long day with the dog trainer, the burned out pump and the - yet again - phone and internet...
I am wiped out :_|
Will catch up in the morning... JV where are yooooooo?
xxx
I must be looking old.
While I was at the shopping centre the Oldest Granddaughter offered to hire me a wheel chair and push me around.
Maybe you'd sighed once too often and she thought you were tired?
Gill shame on you :^O
Well from 33˚ over the past three days I woke up to 0˚ this morning after a night of rain!! 😮
I don't know about climate change, but something is sure weird around here :^O
Well off to gym today to keep fit as much as possible... It's not a bad thing to do and you meet some nice people of about the same age as yourself which is good too...
Looks like my phone might be fixed... but I feel like that man that jumped off a 20 story building... as he fell past each floor people heard him say
"Well, so far so good"
:^O
