Conor Lamb Quotes

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.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their illnesses or being impoverished by them.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

We've not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.

We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don't address social connection.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.