Alcohol and the elderly

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.

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

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

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

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.

Life's for living

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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. 😁

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 .

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

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 🤣

I had to open the red for the Boeuf Bournignon

It would be a shame to waste the rest.
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I’ve enjoyed a small glass of white while cooking. Will have the other half with dinner
Heaven help us all

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.

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

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!

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?

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

Well, my bottle of Christmas Baileys lives in the kitchen, where I can see it.
When the need arises, I have a glug. Cook's Perks!

DH doesn't like it.
Since I take a Chemo tablet every day for 3 weeks out of 4,
I was wary, but it seems to do me no harm, physically. Mentally, "I am Worth It" . So there. 😘

I’m sure it was tongue in cheek.

I think at 90 she's already on a slippery slope.

Bobbysgirl19

petra

I would definitely phone social services or talk to her Dr ( if you know him/her) which I’m sure you do.
The woman is obviously on the slippery slope of becoming a lush.

I think that is a bit extreme Petra.

I read if as tongue-in-cheek.

This cannot be serious ......

petra

I would definitely phone social services or talk to her Dr ( if you know him/her) which I’m sure you do.
The woman is obviously on the slippery slope of becoming a lush.

I think that is a bit extreme Petra.

The old comment that not drinking, not eating fat cheeses, chocolate or chips doesn’t make you live longer, it just feels like it, springs to mind

and what I call a liquer

That made me laugh, it reminded me of Miranda's Mum
"It's what I call a ........"

Liqueur? Liquor?
Spirit?

Such fun!

MissAdventure

I can see where it could be problematic, if the person is a bit tiddly and has to then negotiate stairs, put the cat out, plump up the cushions, or whatever their night routine is.
Perhaps they could go to bed and have their last drink there?

Do you think she could fall off the stair lift? 😲

Do those things have a seatbelt?