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Aging & Elder Care :: People are living longer today. With this longevity, a whole new group of challenges have emerged. The so-called "sandwich" generation, just getting beyond their mom & dad responsibilities, are now faced with "parenting"
their parents. Older people, so long defined by career choices, have had to "reinvent" themselves as long term retirees.
The Aging and Elder Care Forum addresses those interests and concerns that pertain to the latter part of life. Discussions relating to role and health changes, adjustment challenges, and new relationships between parents and their children may be explored.
Information on practical matters such as Medicare, long term care insurance, retirement and nursing homes may be accessed here. Polls may be created, to perceive quickly what others on the Forum think about a particular issue.
If you are a "Sexy Senior Citizen", love an aging person, or are going to be retired yourself someday, the Aging and Elder Care Forum welcomes you! Ask us a Question!
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| Annie goes boom |
Posted by boomerang on May, 16. :: 2 Comments
My neighbor "Annie" (I call her that because she reminds me of Texas' Ann Richards) fell down the other day.
Annie was led to believe she had a brain tumor.
Annie went through a lot of tests. A LOT of tests.
Annie has an ear infection, it turns out. (Thank goodness. I LOVE Annie.)
Annie went boom because the infection messed up her balance.
Annie is mid 60s (maybe older, if not, forgive me Annie) and a very wealthy widow.
I think Annie's doctors said "brain tumor" because Annie had good insurance and much money and that pisses me off because I like to believe the best about doctors.
So.
Is it better to be so cautious or is it better to be a suspected ear infection?
(I hope this makes sense.)
Thanks!
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| What to expect with Hospice? |
Posted by quinn1 on May, 03. :: 23 Comments
My lovely little senile grandmother of 85 years young was started on Hospice care yesterday.
It's been a battle with the Alzheimers for many years but we put her into an Alzhiemers Specific Care Facility a while ago and that has been good for her. In the last year though it has been an up and downhill battle with emergency Hospital visits. She has had internal bleeding and prolapse. Recently she has had some serious blood pressure issues. She also hasn't eaten anything but ensure and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for at least the las 6 months. She's down to 85 pounds. She's in a wheelchair. She also is a Polio victim so, that has it's own lovely little care issues.
So yesterday when her blood pressure started dropping out again and she started again with the bleeding and prolapse again my mother finally made the decision to call in Hospice. The Hospice nurse was able to give her Morphine for the pain as well as comfort my mother and go over all the plans that are already in place as well as care for my grandmother for the best quality of life.
Hospice is great and I have had many people say that in the past but it hasn't actually been this close to me before so I am now finding it very comforting and reassuring for both my mother and grandmother.
Is there anything else I can expect from Hospice?
Any hands on experience with how this generally goes?
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| Thursday I Apply For My Social Security |
Posted by edgarblythe on April, 16. :: 28 Comments
We geezers born in 1942 can apply at age 65 and ten months. We are the only persons who qualify to do this. !943 and younger get older as they go down the line.
I was set to drive to Conroe, to apply in person. Turns out, they prefer you to do it online, or even by phone.
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| A quetion |
Posted by Ramafuchs on April, 06. :: 1 Comment
If youth is a blunder
and old age is a regret( according to Disraeli)
who will solve the family life?
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| Gay old people's home |
Posted by Walter Hinteler on March, 16. :: 4 Comments
According to Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center,
nearly 20% of gay seniors have no one to care for them should they become ill, vs. 2% for heterosexual seniors; and 2/3 of gay seniors live alone vs. 1/3 of heterosexual seniors. (Source About.com))
(The Guardian, 17.03.08, page 43)
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Glad to be gay and grey in Berlin's new old people's home
Jess Smee
The Guardian, Monday March 17 2008
A fluffy yellow bedspread is severely tucked around the hospital-style bed, there's a wheelchair-accessible shower and a token pot plant. At first glance, the Asta Nielsen Haus in Berlin looks like the average old people's home. But this is a pioneering facility - the first in Europe to cater exclusively for gays and lesbians.
"We just want people to be able to speak freely of their pasts. They shouldn't have to worry about reactions or prejudices," says Kerstin Wecker, who runs the centre. "It's simple really: no one should be shocked to go into a man's room and see a picture of another man. No one should have to explain themselves to others at this stage of life."
Tucked away in a quiet corner of the city's northern Pankow district, the home, which takes its name from a Danish film starlet, has space for 28 residents. Half of the care assistants working there are also homosexual - something a survey of potential residents showed was a priority. Aside from an automatic acceptance of their past, the home is run like any other, Wecker says. "We don't want to be exotic, just a slice of everyday life."
The idea of a gay-only project for elderly people was first mooted at a "gay and grey" congress in Cologne in 1995. It reflects fears among Germany's first openly gay generation about what will happen when they are too frail to care for themselves. "At the moment, most gay and lesbian residents keep themselves hidden. Imagine one gay person in a home of 100 people. It can be lonely and isolating," says Christian Hamm, who is on the board of the organisation behind the care-home plan. Hamm and his associates are now drawing up plans for an assisted-care retirement centre for gay people in another Berlin district.
And that is just what the Asta Nielsen Haus wants. Its organisers are proud to be trailblazers, but hope that it won't be long before their project is seen as nothing unusual. "We don't want to be the only one," says Wecker. "We hope this idea takes off." |
A newspaper report in French about that home: La maison des mamies roses
More links to press reports at their homepage.
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