Quotes About Elderly

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world, she eventually told Irina. They have loved a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion.

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world, she eventually told Irina. They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion.

Como sociedad necesitamos encontrar la forma de hacernos cargo de los ancianos y de ayudarlos a morir si así lo desean.

The elderly are treated not as a priority but as a nuisance.

Hay diferencia entre vejez y ancianidad. No es cosa de edad, sino de estado de salud física y mental —le explicó Cathy—. Los viejos pueden mantener su independencia, pero los ancianos necesitan asistencia y vigilancia hasta que llega un momento en que son como niños.»

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

Who wants to privatize Medicare.

Or the octogenarian twins—Creason and his colleagues referred to them as Heckle and Jeckle—who came to the library daily, spending their time reading Herodotus and Thucydides and telling Creason the very same joke every day for seven years.

He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?

Woof, a really old guy who's hard of hearing and doesn't seem to know what's going on since he keeps trying to stuff poisonous bugs in his mouth.

and Woof, a really old guy who's hard of hearing and doesn't seem to know what's going on since he keeps trying to stuff poisonous bugs in his mouth.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

But . . . but I'm only ninety-six

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

As America is growing older, there are more and more families caring for older parents and grandparents, and it's extremely expensive.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough.

For example, the RNC for years has been sending out unconscionable mailers to every elderly conservative in America. These letters are made up almost exclusively of hyperbole and ad hominem and conspiracies. They add absolutely zero to the political discourse. But they "work" in the sense that they are effective at keeping the olds upset so that they continue sending in their Social Security money.

Damn! Why do those yellow-bellied fates always gang up on the elderly?