Category Archives: Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years

My Grandmother’s Jail Break Plan Out of the Nursing Home

Having someone, to share her plans with, that, was what this elderly needed, and now she’d found it, in the nursing home her family had, checked her into, and she’d stopped thinking about making her escape now, translated… My elderly … Continue reading

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My Mother-in-Law Made Dumplings for Twenty Years, Keeping the Dementia Away

The fine motor movements would help dementia to stay away from you that’s for certain, how this elderly woman stays healthy in the mind, translated… Twenty years, and inside of my mother-in-law’s refrigerator, it’s always, filled up with her own … Continue reading

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The Self-Planned Trips: Using My Feet, to Help My Brain Become More Active

Staying active in the elderly years, opening oneself up, to experience new things, in foreign places that you go to, translated… As I’d, hit my sixtieth “marker”, my memories started, deteriorating, I was headed into the kitchens for something, and … Continue reading

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The Barber in the Park

His father didn’t just go to the barber in the park because of the price, it’s because of the socialization with people his age that he receives from the trips that mattered more, translated… My father is close to ninety, … Continue reading

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Interning at the Super Convenience Shops, the Demented Elderly Regained Their Smiles

A very good program, to help the demented elderly stay active, and socialize with the outside world more! From the Newspapers, translated… It’s no news, that the super convenience shops offered freshly made coffees, but, there’s, only this one shop, … Continue reading

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Midnight Dates with Mom

To keep one’s mind active, to delay the onset of aging process of the mind, and this, became a sort of a habit, a hobby of the elderly woman, translated… After the surgeries, mom became, weakened, couldn’t travel abroad with … Continue reading

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At the Terminal Station of Life: How My Mother Lived Out Her Final Years of Life

How this elderly chose, to live out the remains of her years, maintaining her own freedom of lifestyle of her choice, translated… That day, my mother and I went to have our meal at the restaurant nearby the park, with … Continue reading

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Accidentally, Barged into the Elderly Activities Center

How the elderly aged gracefully in another culture, translated… Awhile ago, I’d gone to a clinic to get my blood drawn, and saw a posted notice, “Looking for Individuals to Visit Elderly Who Lived Alone”. I’d written down the website, … Continue reading

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Men Also Need Confidants

Because they FAILED to establish that connection from earlier, that is why, they all became, more isolated after they retired, observations, translated… The restaurant phoned my husband, to confirm the menu, I’d curiously inquired on what sort of a gathering … Continue reading

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When Longevity is No Longer a Blessing, in the Elderly Years, Spending Nine Whole Years Bedridden Before Death

So, we’re no longer, “blessed” with a long life, but CURSED with one now, aren’t we??? From the Newspapers, translated… With the Average Age of 80, the Department of Sanitation Welfare Found that the Years of Healthy Living is Only … Continue reading

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