Quotes About Elderly

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

Surtout les vieillards sont dangereux, à qui le souvenir des choses passées demeure, et qui ont perdu le souvenir de leurs redites.

I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. II. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. III. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S THREE LAWS

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you'll never miss a mother's love Till she's buried beneath the clay.

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.

Tú siempre has tenido ese carácter distante, como si participaras en un juego en el que no te importa demasiado ganar o perder, y ahora has perdido, más que perdido has abandonado el juego, posees ese extraño encanto que normalmente sólo se da en personas muy ancianas o en enfermos desahuciados. El encanto de los derrotados. Pareces tan frío, tan frío, tan envidiablemente frío.

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a tall figure in a black robe and the latest in agricultural handtools starts looking thoughtfully at you it is time to act fast.

These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

septuagenarian.

They say the older you get, the less you care about what people think. The physical reason for elderly insouciance may be frontal lobe degeneration resulting in a loss of inhibition and social judgment.

Adult and senior dogs have just as much love to give as younger ones and I encourage everyone to give an older dog a chance.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

Granana lives on the other side of the island. She's eighty-four, I'm twelve, and Wallow's fourteen, so it's a little ambiguous as to who's babysitting whom.