Quotes About Elderly

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

I am old, and solitary as well, and you can't think how long the nights are to us old folk.

C'erano intorno ragazzini che correvano, cani che volevano tornare a casa e coppie di anziani con l'aria di essere scampati a qualcosa di terrificante. La loro vita, probabilmente.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Peter, leaving the library with a light step, and skipping down the stairs like an elderly Fred Astaire.

old ways of doing things. It is the ability to make ancient truth the living memory of today. Only the elderly have lived through both the good and the bad decisions of the past. It is they, then, who have the wisdom to alert us to alternatives, to evaluate present choices from the perspective of history. The role of

Osteoporosis isn't a problem that gets a lot of attention, but it is deadly in older women. The weakening of their bones doesn't only result in cosmetic changes. The fragility means that a fall can be life-threatening.

I was taught to show respect to old people," she said sweetly, adding, "no matter how little they may deserve it.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell "BINGO!"

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

GST may well have to rise, but Singaporeans could be more likely to accept it if the government considers the pros and cons of moving from the established orthodoxy, and consider new approaches that improve social protection thresholds for all, and elderly Singaporeans in particular.

The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

Old man and I had a long talk about the weather just now.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.