Log In | Register
Ignoring the strength of the elderly and their desire to be seen and heard is a HUGE mistake. The cost of living is a fact of survival for those on tight budgets.
The years of working and paying taxes leads into a reward of retiring and hopefully enjoying the remainder of life on earth with some ease and comfort.
Not all elders have investment portfolios or pension funds that will support cruises and new cars every three years. Some elders live with budgets covering medical costs and needed meds. Many elders are now in the position of cutting into their savings to help their adult children, who are affected by the recession.
Being OLD, for many seniors is not sitting in the sun on a cool day in Florida with a glass of lemonade and having a maid waiting to serve dinner.
Many seniors wake-up to face the same problems they lived with the day before: "how to survive"! The cost of living increases. Buying food is a heartbreaking chore, when the alloted funds cannot buy nourishing food and pay for the air conditioning in the summertime.
To ignore the elderly and scare them with the signs of cutting them out of the herd is a dangerous idea.
