Alcohol and the elderly

Hope she’s not entertaining men as well.
At 90 what’s she saving herself for, she should do as she likes.

The care home my mum spent her last year in served alcohol with meals if the residents wanted it. My mother didn’t have any as it happened, because she never really did drink alcohol very much apart from the occasional glass of wine, but she’d stopped drinking any alcohol a few years before. That was her choice and she was often offered alcohol but always refused it.
If this lady wants to drink a glass of wine with her dinner and another drink in the evening, I don’t see any problem with it. She enjoys it, why not?

And at 78 I have just poured my pre-dinner sherry, and as it's Bolognese for dinner tonight, I shall have a glass of red to go with it!

Do those things have a seatbelt - yes if it's the seated sort Callistemon21

BlueSapphire I’ve just had bolognese for dinner too and it was delicious. No wine though, I’m on antibiotics at the moment and don’t like to mix the two.

I’ve enjoyed a small glass of white while cooking. Will have the other half with dinner
Heaven help us all

I had to open the red for the Boeuf Bournignon

It would be a shame to waste the rest.
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Well, my bottle of Christmas Baileys lives in the kitchen, where I can see it.

A splash of Bailey's is nice in your coffee.
My daughter taught me that 😉

Hope she’s not entertaining men as well.

Now that would get the neighbours talking 🤣

Boeuf Bournignon
And I typed that before I'd had a 🍷

My mother is 88 and says she hates taking her adcal tablets as they’re so chalky , so she she washes them down with a small g & t around teatime. She sometimes has a glass of wine with her dinner , however her glasses are tiny , like sherry or port glasses .
I don’t have a problem with it. She enjoys her small tipple .

Why shocked? Is she walking around (tottering around) in an inebriated state every time you see her? I imagine not. Just leave her alone to enjoy her daily tipple - at 90, she’s earned it. 😁

Life's for living

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Do what you want to do. No need to explain that the glasses are small or you only have one. My glasses are large and I have more than one.

Judy54

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you die! When you get to a certain age you stop caring about what other people think. It is about enjoying what time you have left and doing what pleases you. To hell with everyone else let them be miserable they certainly wont die happy.

Gave up alcohol and never felt happier

This is a wind-up and it’s surely got you all wound up! 😂🍸

Why would it be a wind up?
It's hardly out of the ordinary.

There's a Thursday afternoon ladies prosecco group at our nearby care home. For the men there's a beer and bacon rolls group. It's a very nice place with happy residents and an imaginative activities team.

It may be a wind-up, although I doubt it, but we aren't wound up about it. We all think the OP is worried unduly, while we relax with a glass in our hand, wheher our own preferences is a nice glass of wine or an elderflower presse.

I am curious, *halfpint18 how much you have to drink to notice the effect when you stop. I go weeks at a time without having an alcoholic drink and then have one drink a day for a week and I really feel absolutely no different, before, after or during that week.

I did know someone once who gave it up and noticed the difference but he was drinking one or more bottles of wine a day, which is hardly normal.

I stopped for five years and felt no difference.

Alcohol does affect me more than it did when I was younger. If I drink two large glasses of wine I tend to get a headache, and so I tend to limit myself to one large glass or two smaller ones. Prosecco doesn’t appear to have that effect, and I often share a bottle with my DiL at weekends.
That’s just me though, and I think everyone should do whatever makes them happy.

Just loving all the light-hearted and humerous responses to the thread. Thank-you all.

Aveline

There's a Thursday afternoon ladies prosecco group at our nearby care home. For the men there's a beer and bacon rolls group. It's a very nice place with happy residents and an imaginative activities team.

Have you read The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman? It’s set in an upmarket residential complex that sounds like the one you mention.

Primrose53 I haven't read that book as I can't stand Richard Osman! He always seems so pleased with himself.
The care home I was talking about is really lovely. I'd put my name down for it now but its very expensive

I do think as a society we are too accepting of alcohol. Particularly women.
It doesn't do the brain any good.
Yes if you've arrived at 90 and still enjoy a glass, fine.
But I am shocked at how large the glasses of wine are that my DD drinks.
I have a friend who complains about her memory but still drinks a couple of glasses most evenings.
But we all need some pleasure in life don't we.

You need to get out more.