When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
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.
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
A 75-year-old man doesn't need maternity leave or maternity care. A young person doesn't need geriatric care.
As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
I keep thinking how young can you die from old age
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
The old are in a second childhood.
Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.
It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.
In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.
And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.
old folks is the nation.
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.
