HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE YOUR EIGHTIES & NINETIES

NOBODY wants to die. Everybody wants to live long and at best as like they are in their fourties or fifties but we know very well that this is not the case most of the time. Regretfully despite the new medications , diagnosis and better health care we still get older and more disabled every day.

NOWADAYS more people is living his eighties and nineties... This is good news but also this is something that we do not know on how to be prepared for it. Developments in geriatric science is great but still very insufficient.

WHEN a new baby is born his parents know very well on how to raise him properly. Good food , good education , good environment is provided as much possible. 

Every elderly person is different from one to another. Some of them run into trouble with alzheimer ,some of them become deaf, most of them slow down in fulfilling their daily activities, loose his spouse . Loneliness start to become depressive as friends start to pass away.  Lifelong savings drain away .

My aim in writing this essay is to make you think about on how one can be prepared to its aging. Or is it possible to do something as from our fifties or sixties ? All say no... But I think there must be quite a lot of things that we can do while you are still healthy and active in life.

We must bear in mind that we may need assistance from our children hence being close to them is important. Leaving the existing comfort zone and approach to where your children are is something that we can do it right away.

Psychological fatigue in time is almost unavoidable. Hence according to the need getting assistance is very important. Elderly people sometimes feel ashamed of psychological disorders and refuse any kind of external help.

Living alone after certain age is impossible. Either you have to go to an almshouse or find caretaker nurse. Both are expensive but living long is expensive!

Financing the daily life is something important per se. We lose the monetary value perception in time hence -if possible - getting advice from your children or from somebody you can rely (but still at their fifties at most) is important . Preparing a budget and make expenditures accordingly is important. Youngsters may find out much easily legal advantages that we have and public aids that we can benefit.

How to live your days is another big topic that we have to think about much earlier in life. Not everybody can work lifelong . Some are forced to retire or mental and physical state of a person may deteriorate after their sixties and retire. Hence to think about on how to have a good time we have to make an excessive effort on this matter  to improve our quality of life in our senescence period.

Avram Aji
10.07.2019