WRITTEN MAY 26, 2019 -- (revisiting Dec 19, 2023)
Active in the Senior Community, I know men and women who own businesses, actively work to support Charitable causes, provide rides for those who cannot drive to shop, attend a meeting, visit a Doctor or just get out to walk in a nearby Park.
The gentleman Gail mentioned is one of the "fortunate" Seniors but at any moment he could suffer a stroke, heart attack, fall and break a leg and find himself in Long Term Care. A facility where staff are trained to "talk down" to Elders and not to inform, instead to "pacify".
Ms King certainly doesn't project the age she is, 64 (now, in 2023, 68) and neither do many of "her generation" THE BOOMERS!
The gentleman Gail mentioned is one of the "fortunate" Seniors but at any moment he could suffer a stroke, heart attack, fall and break a leg and find himself in Long Term Care. A facility where staff are trained to "talk down" to Elders and not to inform, instead to "pacify".
Ms King certainly doesn't project the age she is, 64 (now, in 2023, 68) and neither do many of "her generation" THE BOOMERS!
Like many contemporaries and those of us "out in the field", her age and older, actively involved in work and community, it's only our ability to reference decades ago as personal experience that shines a light on where we've been and where we are in life.
As long as we can be seen as contributing, having value perceived by society as "marketable", we receive approval -- at least as long as our ratings are good -- right, Gail?
Ratings. Evaluations. Ranking.
As long as we can be seen as contributing, having value perceived by society as "marketable", we receive approval -- at least as long as our ratings are good -- right, Gail?
Ratings. Evaluations. Ranking.
Statistics drive what we do, where and how we do it.
And in today's world, they're much easier to collect, analyze and make decisions about who has "value" and who should be replaced, moved aside, "put away". Value measured as "perceived" not "received".
People have become commodities as I've written about since 2012 with my concern about those with Dementia, especially Lewy Body Dementia, still under discussed and barely recognized
Who are "older people"?
Ask a five year old and they'll point to a teen or college age person or a new High School graduate or they may talk about someone who's in their Thirties -- and often their parents or their siblings.
People have become commodities as I've written about since 2012 with my concern about those with Dementia, especially Lewy Body Dementia, still under discussed and barely recognized
Who are "older people"?
That's a "point of view" and often where YOU are in life.
It also depends on where you are in the age cycle,
who you know and their "perceived or real condition"
and what you want to know and see.
Ask a five year old and they'll point to a teen or college age person or a new High School graduate or they may talk about someone who's in their Thirties -- and often their parents or their siblings.
It's an "age group" reference point -- where you are and who you're referring to. The more years between, the more distance in having connectivity on a regular basis usually and so it continues until we, you and I, recognize in our society if we do not value what has come before, who has added to where we are today, we disvalue civilization.
Flash forward to that thirty something mark's evaluation of "age" and they look a little farther thinking of their parents usually aged 55+ -- the AARP plus five years age group.
Flash forward to that thirty something mark's evaluation of "age" and they look a little farther thinking of their parents usually aged 55+ -- the AARP plus five years age group.
Yes, AARP is now for people in their 50's! Not retired, but still added to the list of "aging" through association!
Looking at those "newbie" AARPers, they think of their parents, aged 70+; ask the 70+ and they think about people in their late 80's, 90's and beyond.
Let's value the person, their knowledge, experience and abilities.
Looking at those "newbie" AARPers, they think of their parents, aged 70+; ask the 70+ and they think about people in their late 80's, 90's and beyond.
Let's value the person, their knowledge, experience and abilities.
Age is simply a number achieved moving down the road of life.
If you're fortunate, you ride the road into those higher numbers.
When you have the misfortune to lose a loved one "before their time" you realize and recognize ---
AGE is simply a "placeholder number"
It shifts and changes
Adding Value Instead of Subtracting Worth
We Prosper and Become A Better World
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