Some questions I have about growing old and being elderly?
encourager4God asked:
Why is it that so many people particurally females dread growing old and dye thier hair and use wrinkle creams etc?
Why is it that so many people particurally females dread growing old and dye thier hair and use wrinkle creams etc?
Why is it that so many people who are elderly have alhezimers disease and have memory loss?
Why are elderly treated with indifference and contempt instead of reverance and love?
Do you as senior citizens feel this is a hard season in your life or are you enjoying this time in life?
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April 24th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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i do not use any of the first ==== Alzheimer’s is just another sickness that we have to cope with – so far no cure — we are treated badly because young folks have little love for the elderly and the old folks bring some of it on to themselves — yes they deserve it and for the last part i am having a ball and enjoying my last years!!!!
April 25th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
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I was so glad to retire after the schock wore off i didnt leave happy Very happy now excerpt every time i see my doctor some thing else comes up . its sad to see familer names in the obit columb
April 27th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
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kinda funny, all the ads on the right side of the screen next to your question were all for wrinkle cream. no one wants to get old, and some have a hard time accepting it. these kinda things can make you look younger for a while, altho in reality, your just fooling yourself. the disease is usually inherited. why they are treated that way, alot of times is because the way they act. i have seen more rudeness and contempt in the elderly, than in younger people. i dont care about the age, if you dont give respect, you dont deserve any yourself. right now, its not a hard season, but you never know whats around the corner. you can start the downhill slide anytime.
April 28th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
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To answer the final part of your question, the alternative isn’t any better.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
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As far as alhezimers goes not evryone gets that and it’s something that does happen to some as they age. the biggest probelm with aging is the morning aches and pains you have that yuo didn’t have at a younger age.
Nothing else is real bad and a lot of people just like me don’t feel the least bit old as long as you have your health.
we do everything now as we did when we were young and feel we don’t have to hurry and do it as we havemore time to get it done.
Alot of women do use creams because they don’t feel old so they don’t want to look old, but getting old is a thing everyone must go thru so just let yourself go.
May 1st, 2010 at 6:19 am
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There’s a difference between growing old (which I’m doing) and being elderly (which I don’t consider myself). I’m fast approaching 75 years of age and there are things that I did as a young man that I can no longer do now. I concentrate on that which I’m still able to do and relegate the rest to the past where it belongs. I don’t know the stats on how many of the elderly have Alzheimer’s disease, I do know I don’t but I do suffer from mild memory loss. At this time in my life I joke about it, when I forget to laugh at the small stuff, I’ll worry about it. I feel loved by those around me, it’s our government that doesn’t seem to give a damn about us. To them we’re a burden. As far as a season is concerned, I’ve lived them all and I’m still enjoying what’s left.
May 4th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
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#1 Vanity, # 2 it comes with age, #3 because respect is the thing of the past #4 It can be lonely when you spouse is gone
May 6th, 2010 at 3:37 am
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You ask a lot of questions. My answers are from my personal experience. I dye my hair because the white roots come in so fast that I don’t have the money to keep coloring them. If your hair is a nice white then you can work with it, if it’s mixed colors then it’s difficult to look nice and be accepted by the crowd (without people talking about you). Among family it’s fine to have roots and wrinkles because you earned them, but out among other people, well it’s a put down, and especially if you are working, applying for work or trying to date. Plus looking good makes you feel good.
Alzheimers, from what I understand, is hereditary, but they’re not sure it may also be environmental. Just as with cancer the scientists are trying hard to prevent alzheimers or at the very least to make it manageable. Lots of times older people just get dementia, and that’s because cells in the brain die off.
There was a time, that I recall, and in my own early lifetime that elders were treated with reverance and love, up until at least the 1960′s. Not sure why there’s indifference and contempt, ask your generation.
When I asked my aunt why she didn’t tell me what getting older would be like she said she wanted me to remain enthusiastic in life instead of looking forward to illness, pain and loss of friends and relatives to their passing. Today I feel it’s disappointing to see family members pass in threes and fairly often (we had a big family on both sides of the family).
I find that as you age the body disappoints you. What you once thought would work, all of a sudden it can’t or won’t. For instance you could get all ready to go shopping and all of a sudden your legs won’t carry you. Or in the time of your life when you’re trying to start a business and need to, all of a sudden your vision dims and you’re falling over everything and you don’t know what’s wrong with you, and you come to find out it’s cataracts and you almost lose your vision, and it’s about 18 months till you get back to normal, and after you’ve had to depend on other people when all your life you’ve been independent. It’s stuff like that that makes it hard, the unexpected stuff. I suspect there’s more, but this is what I know so far. How much can you enjoy life on little and tight income?
May 8th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
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I am enjoying this time in my life. I mean, once you’ve had raisins you will never go back to grapes !!! As far as Alzheimer’s and memory loss, it isn’t any worse than smoking pot or snorting coke or taking Oxycontin, Crystal Meth, Tramadol etc. When you think about it, we are all really the same age. We aren’t the only ones using wrinkle cream and dying our hair either !!!! … *smile*
May 9th, 2010 at 9:21 am
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I feared 40 until I turned 40….I have no problem now telling my age (44)….doesn’t bother me now….
I don’t want to look old and do dye my hair to hide the gray.
I think in this country we have nursing homes and retirement centers for the elderly and kind of shove them aside. What I’ve seen in other counties the older members are still valuable parts of the family unit and there is that reverence and love.
Other than the aches and pains…I’m enjoying being over 40.