Coping with the Elderly

Wow, so much has been going on I totally lost track of time. I have been busy with the usual, but I am also coping with (second hand) the issues of elderly parents my friends are dealing with. I have one friend who is working on getting her parents settled into a nursing home/assisted living environment and another who's elderly mother just passed away. So many people I talk to are dealing with issues for their parents or elderly relatives who are 70, 80, and even 90 something years old.

Living longer is not necessarily a blessing. I realize that life being cut short is a horrible thing, but once you reach a stage in life where health is just getting worse and you emotional and mental outlook is grim...it's just not a good thing. Fortunately for me, my mother is doing ok right now which is really a blessing. Yes, she is tired all the time and sleeps a lot, but she isn't "suffering", so I feel pretty good about her situation in life. It's just that things could change drastically in the blink of an eye.