Elderly Care Quotes

Getting old is not for sissies.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

Free board, dwelling, support and care in his old age, sickness and infirmity ….an annual sum of maintenance for him or herself, children and relatives.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

The increasing elderly population, rising expectations about what should be available, and costs of medical advancement—these are problems all countries face ...

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

GOLDWATER SETS GOAL: END SOCIAL SECURITY

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?

The work of the youth is a blanket for the old.

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.

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.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.

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.