i don't really know any elderly uh
in uh
no i hello
homes or anything
care of the elderly i guess is
yeah i haven't given much thought to it i'm kind of busy raising my kids
the only way i can relate to it is i think of my mother taking care of her parents
yeah
and i remember her running over there every morning to make sure they got
dressed and and and fed and cleaned
and uh i remember her saying to me i hope don't ever let me do that to you put me in a home because it's it's hellish on the person who has to give the care to a person like that
you know these
they have uh around here they've got these uh they're like uh condos
um-hum
uh complexes and they're uh
oh for senior citizens
geared to elderly and senior citizens
and they have i think uh like a nurse on staff there
well i don't think yeah i don't think the problem is i mean those condos are like elderly people just living in their own apartments i think the trouble begins when they have more physical problems
and they take care of some of that kind of thing
um-hum
i mean it's got to be humiliating to have a stranger a nurse or somebody lift you in and out of a bathtub
yeah
you know because i mean i'm i'm not aged but i'm i'm forty one now and i still feel twenty something and i realize that my body is kind of traitorous and and and changing on me even though i'm not feeling terribly old
yeah
so i can imagine you you know being eighty and somebody has to dress you and you're probably sitting there thinking my God this is so degrading but your body just won't do it
yeah
well i don't know i don't
i'm not sure that uh
this is necessarily true during even if they're eighty you know because you can
a lot of people uh maintain their
their uh fitness and so forth right on
up
well i i think nowadays people are making that effort to eat right and to be more fit and i think old age is getting older
yeah that's a definitely uh that's statistically true
hum are your parents alive
and
my dad's eighty five i think right now eighty five
do and he fends totally for himself
yep
that's wonderful
he still yeah he was having a little trouble getting his driver's license he lives down in Florida
where i was raised but uh
that's great that looks good for you too you know longevity in the family
yeah
right yeah and my grandmother was
lived to a pretty ripe old age too
of course she was in a home when she lost you know her
her mind went
my dad's is
still pretty you know pretty well with it
well i you know my thought is if your mind goes at the same rate your body goes then nobody cares right you know it's like animals when they're stupid what the hell do they know i think if one goes before the other is when you run into trouble
yeah right i guess
yeah well that like that uh
what is it uh
that disease of the
Alzheimer's
yeah
oh that'd be awful
well i i think it that kind of thing is probably awful for everybody around you i think these people don't rightly know what they're doing
yeah yeah really
yeah it's hard to say
yeah that's true
i had a friend that got that and he was fairly young i think he was in his
like late thirties or forties or something like that
well is that something that is that something that affects you all the time or do you kind of like wave in and wave out of it
uh maybe a little lower
i don't know
i think it does come and go to some extent but it just keeps continually getting worse
yeah
um that doesn't doesn't sound too pleasant
no it isn't
well
well i you know i
talking about what would you look for if you had to put someone in a home i guess
uh
i don't know i guess a place that has the most activities you know keeping your mind alive even if you couldn't do very much
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you'd have to go uh
i guess you'd have to go kind try and
pay them surprise visits and see if you could tell what the
atmosphere was like and so forth
yeah that's that's true
if they were uh you know seemed to be
caring or whether they were just warehousing them
yeah
there's a lot of them like that i'm afraid
well you know you nobody takes care of your own as well as you would i was brought up in in a city where everybody lived in apartment buildings and there wasn't any room to you know wasn't houses there wasn't a room to take in the elderly
um-hum
yeah
so if and when they couldn't take care of themselves they couldn't move in with you because you had a three room apartment or something so you know that's why they went somewhere else
where in the city
uh you know
my life's changed now i only
