Pankaj Kapur Quotes

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

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

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

After a lifetime of contributions to their families, their communities and our world, older Americans deserve to live free from harm and abuse.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

When people tend to be happier they have more interest in the world around them.

The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on our senior community and their families.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.