Alcohol and the elderly

We all have free will. So the lady can do what the hell she wants none of anyone's business .

Good for her!

When I'm really, REALLY old I totally plan to do the same because it's nobody's business. Should I get to 80+ I'll be grateful and will care even ess what other people think. YOLO..

annsixty You are definitely forgiven. We are having a few glasses of wine. Nobody else's business.

Leave her be to enjoy herself, I think.
From what I see around these days it's younger people who drink too much too often. Some, not all of course.

😂
Thst's real Champers!

Oops!

Cheers!

🤭"a very elderly one" 😆

😂🍷

Callistemon21

^the Pinot Police^ 😂

The Shiraz Sheriff?
Merlot Mounties?

Oh I’m definitely a Merlot Mountie but these days it would be on a Shetland pony so I don’t have far to fall! 😂

the Pinot Police 😂

The Shiraz Sheriff?
Merlot Mounties?

Pat37 I suggest you swing by one evening with a bottle and join her.
You may enjoy it and loosen up a bit!

callistemon 😂 I was thinking how interesting it is to see so many new people starting threads !

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 have had a very difficult day.
I am86, my autistic GS who moved in 5 weeks ago temporarily has decided he likes living with me and wants to stay.
There is nothing permanent sorted for his education so he is at home with me all day.
My friend has told me just how wealthy she is for the 100th time this month.
My other friend who I have visited this afternoon is increasingly deaf and has misunderstood everything I have said to her plus she is always right.
Am I forgiven for a G&T before my meal, a small bottle of white wine with, and a brandy after even though it is only Wednesday ?
Don’t worry about your relative/ friend.
She is fully aware of what she is doing.

What business is it of yours Pat37 to be concerned?

Are you a new poster, Pat37?
It's lovely to see so many new posters on Gransnet 🙂

We're a jolly lot on the whole. Cheers 🍷

My late MIL lived in a very posh area of a seaside town. She was in her 60s then and most of the neighbours in her cul de sac were retired and a fair bit older than her.

She was aghast at the amount of empty bottles the bin men collected every week and the old couple opposite had a fabulous house and a brand new Jag and only used it once a week to drive down the hill to buy their bootful of booze for the week. She said she didn’t understand how they could drink so much. She had to eat her words when she got so drunk after a funeral that she fell right over the settee 🤣🤣🤣

I guess you get to a point when you don’t have much to live for and a drink or ten is all that’s left.

BlueBelle

I can’t take this seriously ……’ a very elderly one’ 🤣🤣🤣

That was my immediate reaction .

And being 'shocked' at wine with a meal and 'liquer' of an evening. 😂

I dare say some people are more easily shocked than others.

Well said sodapop, that kind terminology is so demeaning, it’s one of my pet hates.

I'm doomed!!

Shocking! I hope you’ve given her a good talking to and told her from now on it’s cocoa. Or maybe Horlicks, if she’s behaved herself and eaten her greens.

How I detest these collective terms ' the elderly' or ' the disabled' we are people first and foremost who may be older or have a disability.
Good luck to the older lady who is enjoying her tipple, life is too short not to enjoy yourself.

Our 97 year old relative was told by the hospital to increase her water intake.

She only drinks sherry and vodka!

Isummer that reminds me that the care home my aunt and uncle went into served a range of wines and beers with lunch.

My father lived to be 92. He lived on his own for the last 10 years after my mother died and he often had a glass of wine with his lunch and a sherry before lunch on Sunday.