Elderly independence Quotes

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise.