That's not me

I’ve no time to think about my age(71)…. I have no car …my husband has been an invalid for 26 years( stroke)…. He’s been housebound for 3 years, and a cantankerous did to boot! My days are filled with caring/nursing/ shopping/ and a hell of a lot of walking….7 miles yesterday ….5 miles Monday….3 miles today ( lazy day). I fall into my bed at 9 …. Fall asleep about 2am and am awake at 5.30 every day! Everybody just expects me to ‘get in with it’! Worry if I’m elderly ….. I just worry if I can outlive my husband to save him the indignity of a care home!

So we are geriatric at 65 but can't get a state pension until 66-67 ?

I’m continually shocked rigid - most recently at GC nativity where I remarked it wasn’t as busy as usual only to be told in chorus by others ‘This one is for us oldies’
I was stunned and tempted to kick them on shins but they looked very old, so smiled through gritted teeth instead!! ?

It’s good to have an old Doctor as then they don’t think your old ! Marmite 32,my friends Mum still made cinnamon rolls each week at 92

…though on a recent phone consultation with a GP, he did say to me ‘you are only 62’ I could have kissed him!

Gongoozler that’s exactly the same remark we made when we went for our Covid jabs!

TanaMa, I am 87 but mentally much younger. However, I had my first fall on Christmas night in the garden when I was taking the dogs for their toileting needs. I did trip on a flagstone but yesterday on the back patio for no reason I fell. Luckily a workman heard me cry out and lifted me and took me into the house. He phoned my son to tell him, which was nice of him. However, I am now very worried. I never had falls in London, but here in the Caribbean I have had 2 falls in 10 days. I do not know why. I guess I am physically very old!

In one organisation I worked for we weren't allowed to.use the term elderly as nowadays it seems to imply infirmity. Seniors, as in USA seems to.be more common. Leave the doctors to.their own devices.

Thanks for the tip
Germanshepherdsmum. I may try that to cheer myself up.
I agree lifebeginsat60 some of us lived through the swinging 1960s. not planning to be around in the 2060s we are fairly unshockable but take longer to laugh

p.s. A few years back when we could still assemble in the doc’s surgery waiting room for the flu jab, my DH remarked “They must have called us on the wrong day. It’s all old people in here!”

I was 80 at the end of last month and had a card with read “aged to perfection” which was nice.
These days I think I’m not so much well preserved as pickled!

I knew I was really old recently when the hairdresser asked me if I had a nap in the afternoons!

I’m 70 and I wear eye make up every day Grammaretto. Without it I look knackered, washed out and years older. Just a bit of eyeshadow and eye pencil take years off. Lipstick if going ‘out out’ which is once in a blue moon, otherwise pink lip balm. No foundation as I find it ageing. Have a go, new year new you!

I'm nonplussed when younger people post funny pictures of such things as phallic-looking vegetables on social media along the caption 'My nan doesn't understand why we can't stop laughing'. Why, pray, are older people suddenly deemed unable to get a smutty joke?

My 96 yr old MiL keeps me feeling young. I have just driven her home from the station. She spent the Christmas hols with her DD. We got in her house and she pushed me out of the way when I put the kettle on and said she was doing it.
I have felt exactly the same for years but I must say this year I am looking older. Being a widow is taking its toll or maybe the house problems or worries about the DC and DGC.
Covid, climate change, wars all so depressing.
Perhaps I should start wearing makeup or dye my hair?
I'm 73. I think
Some of you have good ideas.

I heard our GP surgery was calling all elderly patients over 50 that need to get their boosters to call for an appointment. Over 50s are elderly! I was not a happy bunny hearing that.

I have a friend who even her children don’t know her age, however someone joined a group I went to and knew her as she went to school with her, it appears she was older than her husband and he didn’t know. She didn’t acknowledge the woman and did not return to the group, I find it funny, as if it matters. You’re as young as you feel, some days I feel a hundred.

??? hilarious agnurse! Like my darling GF said he'd have to start taking his whisky with ' a wee bit water' .....on his 93rdbirthday. Darling boys

We have an autistic grandson .when he was told his grandad was 82 he’s said wow he should be planning his funeral. We didn’t tell grandad as he’s quite fit and agile , but it gave us all a laugh ?

PinkCosmos

I think they call older people 'seniors' in Australia.

Sounds much nicer than elderly.

Someone told me that they have stopped using the elderly road sign in the UK as it was offensive to older people. There is still one near us so I don't know whether this is true or not

Hilarious!?? I never understood why the old gal was clinging on to the old gimmers coat?!? That's the last person I'd trust to get me anywhere safely in old age, they're bad enough when they're young!the times I've 'lost my husband....' .....in the shops! Honestly they're like toddlers?

I just didn't get that they meant us when they were talking about elderly and vulnerable in early pan-days! I was visualising my mater at 93 in carehome, not me and me mates all giggling and singing away at choir gigs! And regaling each other of hangover cures we'd just had to try after one night out or another. I wonder if it's because we're the rock n roll gens that we appear to have kept our fun modules in fine fettle?!

Well done Bijou - I have a way yet to catch up with you!!

My mate regards me as a "baby" at 65! She's 8years my senior. But we were discussing the fact that the younger gen all appear to have 'lost '10-15 years somewhere along the way and are trying to have baby#1 well into 30s if not 40s !! How will this all pan out when these late babes hit their 20s their parents will be geriatric! And very sadly their subsequent babes will have few doting fun to be with active gransmums and grandad? We wondered if the huge numbers using IVF nowadays is a symptom of 'leaving it too late' or did folks just accept no babies and adopt in days gone by? I was a little annoyed if not a smidge angry to read someone aged 62 being described as elderly lady(!?!?!) When she'd been asked in street interview about vaxes!! The cheek! But a funny thing happened when I went for my booster and met new GP for first time she literally did a double take when I gave my name! I think she expected an 'elderly' 65 year old with chronic arthritis...... At a shapely 5'8' sporting leather pants high boots titian red crowning glory and a really sharp jacket, she was disappointed.......yet pleasantly said "oh wow, hello!" Made my day tee hee......

Bit of a serious note. When 'IT' hit and we were all advised various stuff because we are 'elderly and vulnerable' it really got to me. Since then whenever I hear this sort of gibberish I remind myself that I am RESILIENT!

As many Gransnetters know I am 98. Until I was in my mid eighties was travelling to America and Barbados every year. My son will be 74 in April. All my grandchildren are over 50 and eldest great daughter is 23.
Still manage with just one hours help daily.