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“Dealing with a stubborn, medically challenged parent later becomes an integral component within our grief process.”

Parent Grief Medical Senior Stubborn Elderly Advanced Geriatric

Author:Wyatt Pringle Jr

“Maggie perked up on hearing the word “aged”. “There. That’s a reasonable word ‘Geriatric’ drives me crazy, and ‘elderly’ is so loosely and rudely, it seems to be. ‘Aged’ is just a technical term. Anyway – ‘Boomer’ Is the cutest.”

Elderly Aged Geriatric

Book:Bloomer

Source: Bloomer

“There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders.”

Danger Ladders Accident Old Men Geriatric

Book:Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

Source: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

“Some doctors who specialize in the care of geriatric patients have told me that there are rare occasions when they have heard a very old, sick, and frail person announce, “I’m going to die today.” And the individual did. But it doesn’t happen often.”

Death Suicide Aging Old Age Death And Dying Euthanasia Geriatric

Book:Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

Source: Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

“For more than half a century now, we have treated the trials of sickness, aging, and mortality as medical concerns. It's been and experiment in social engineering, putting our fate in the hands of people valued more for their technical prowess than for their understanding of human needs. That experiment has failed... we seek a life of worth and purpose, yet are routinely denied the conditions that might make it possible, there is no other way to see what modern society has done.”

Informative Western Medicine Geriatric Healthcare Issues Societal Influences

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Pickleball is a sport most people have never heard of but is a big deal in Florida's retirement communities. It is a geriatric version of tennis played with Ping-Pong paddles and a Whiffle Ball on a court similar to a badminton court... Jeff Laughlin, a North Carolina sportswriter, visited a pickleball match and reported that "the absurdity of the name can only be rivaled by the absurdity of the sport itself." Because the rackets are pretty lightweight and the Whiffle Ball is, well, a Whiffle Ball, no on can hit the ball hard enough to get it past an opposing player. The result is a game featuring "long, arduous volleys" that seem to end mainly once someone gets tired of swinging the racket or it's time for lunch. Laughlin characterizes the sport as "incredibly easy and boring," but to aficionados, apparently, it is a great way to work up a thirst for an afternoon martini.”

Florida Pickleball Geriatric

Book:A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

Source: A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State