Category Archives: Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years
How We’d, Decided, to Live After Sixty
Keeping your, lifestyle, just as active as you’d lived previous, that, is a great way, to stay young forever all right!!! translated… Recalling how as I got across my fortieth “marker”, I’d, announced to my friends, I’m already, going towards, … Continue reading →
The Necessity of Having Female Confidants
What we need, as we, grow older, someone, to just listen, someone to, give us, an alternative perspective of the issues we’re, faced with in life, translated… It was about, two years after, we were, wed, I suppose, there was, … Continue reading →
Dementia, But Not Losing the Ability to Live on One’s Own, Training the Children Starting at a Young Age
As these, are the skills, we would find useful, as we become, elderly people, and with the society, aging fast right now, we need to, make sure, that we train, the next generations to be, inquisitive, because they will help … Continue reading →
Posted in Aging Well, Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
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Tagged How Early Childhood Education Helps the Elderly Years Later on in Life, Old Habits that NEVER Die, the Age Regressions of Demented Elderly
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As the Weather Turned Cooler & Autumn Closes in
How retired elderly service persons are still, quite active, sharing their lives, in a nursing home, translated… That day, as I received a call from, He, a female friend, the who’d served on the entertainment committee, she invited me to … Continue reading →
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No Meds
All this elderly woman was in need of, was someone, to hear her out, translated… It’d been, several ears, that my grandmother had, fumbled through her medicine bags after each and every meal, for her “treats”, she’d gone to the … Continue reading →
My Best Friend
Making friends with someone who is older, someone who reminded you of your mother, with both of you, benefitting from the interactions, translated… The setting sun had, casted a very long shadow of Kim and me, in order to comply … Continue reading →
Two Separate Mindsets in Dementia, from the Caretakers’ Journal
The characters of these two elderly women’s personalities were, flipped, upside down by dementia, translated… When my mother-in-law was eighty-three, she was diagnosed as having vascular dementia, and my husband and I took over the caretaking of her, she’d, changed … Continue reading →
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Memories Shared, Mental Health, Philosophies of Life, Real Stories from All Around, Recollections, Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Things Left Behind, Values of Life
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Tagged Personality Alters in Demented Elderly
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Being Needed… “Working as a Volunteer to Help Out the Elderly Population is Addictive”
Because we all want to feel we still have something we can contribute to the societies we’re currently living in, generativity vs. stagnation, remember??? From the Newspapers, translated… “The Intern” was on the main character who’s already seventy years of … Continue reading →
Why Not, if I Can Bring a Smile to the Elderly Woman’s Face
The motives behind this elderly woman’s behavior was, quite simple, actually, she just wanted to feel good about herself! Translated… I’d gone home to visit, as I’d just parked the car in the alley, my mother’s neighbor, Mrs. Liu came … Continue reading →
Posted in Adult Children, Beliefs, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years, the Consequences of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
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Tagged Interactions with an Elderly Person, Showered Her with a TON of Materials But None of Their Attention, the Mind of Comparisons
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Volunteering, Learning New Things, Helping Others, and Keeping the Mind Active at the Same Time
How to keep dementia away! From the Newspapers, translated… Activating the brain cells, upping the metabolism, it can, prevent dementia. Other having a set schedule, getting enough sleep, in the morn, I’d, drunk a glass of warm water, to start … Continue reading →
Life, the Obstacle Course 