Today at the nursing home one of the people I visit told me she was elected President of the U. S.

[texanwitch]

She was so serious about this, and so excitied.

Bless her heart, she has her own little world going.

She said she would be a really good president.

I told her I knew she would be.

[Skittles]

1. :)

sweet!

[Kali]

2. probably a hell of lot better than bush

and more coherent too

[Lasher]

6. He thinks he was elected too.

[LynneSin]

10. I've seen piles of poo better than Bush and way more coherent

:D

[marzipanni]

3. Good for her!

My elderly mom befriended the elderly Chinese woman who lived with her son's family next door. When she saw an antique lithograph portrait of Abraham Lincoln hanging in my mom's house she asked, "Is that your husband?" (Well, it was of Lincoln before he grew a beard, so less familiar than his more recognizable appearance!)

[KT2000]

4. I was waiting in the hall

of a nursing home. An attractive, petite woman, hair nicely fixed, nice outfit, rolled up in her wheelchair. She told me "She's such a pretty girl - such a prety girl. I want to kill her."
Cracked me up.

[texanwitch]

8. The people at the nursing home will tell you what they think, like little kids.

Don't sit at their table either, they will tell you to go.

I have heard some stories I wouldn't repeat.

I don't know if the stories are true but these people were not always old.

[IntravenousDemilo]

5. Perhaps we're not real, just figments of her imagination. n/m

[Brickbat]

7. I spent some time over the past few months visiting a woman in a nursing home at the request of her

family. I didn't know her and would just go in and chat for an hour a day. It made me wonder what stuff I have tucked away in my brain that's going to burst out when I'm so old the barriers fall down. I mean, the eldercare workers don't need to hear some of the things I've done in my life, y'know? :rofl:

[texanwitch]

9. I have heard stories trust me.

Many people talk to be people not there, except in their minds.

The things I have heard.

[Brickbat]

11. Yeah, me too.

I have to say I'm grateful for the work I did there, because it gave me a very different and clear idea about the very old and how to mitigate their final months. Most of my people either died suddenly in their hale 70s, or they steamed ahead into their 90s, followed by a short stay in a nursing home and death. I didn't have a lot of experience dealing this kind of aging.

[texanwitch]

12. Some people due very well into old age, others not so much.

There are younger people at the home also, due to accidents mostly.

That is sad to see.

No matter how bad my life gets it is better then theirs.

So many people have no visitors at all, plenty family but no one visits.

[tigereye]

15. I think it depresses folks to think of their parents, etc

having to be in a facility. When we used to visit my grandmother, she would beg us to take her home. It was very difficult. She used to try to escape down the road with her walker... :D

My mother is reaching the point where she will have to be in a facility, probably fairly soon and I am looking at facilities now. It is not a fun prospect to contemplate.

[texanwitch]

16. My friend was a social worker in a home a few years ago, so she had to deal with families.

It will be hard for your family but do try to be positive in front of your Mom.

There does reach a time when a home becomes the only option.

It isn't what you want but you have to do it, sometimes your sanity is on the line.

Sometimes there is only one person who is a caregiver and they wearout.

A good home is a blessing even for a short time, to give a caregiver a break.

I have been a caregiver I know.

Just look around a lot of places first, find a place you Mom would like if possible.

Tough days ago for you, I know.

[tigereye]

14. and these folks were younger in the wild times, too!

:rofl: Love it.

[rug]

13. I've read similar things in GDP.