My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.
The old are in a second childhood.
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
The sicker and the older you get, the more support you ought to get.
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.
After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.
One spares old people just as one spares children.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.
I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.
Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
My advice to seniors - and I consider myself one - is to first and foremost take care of your body. Secondly, find something where you could say, "I'm helping somebody else." And it may be just helping raise a grandkid. Or teaching a child to read - one child to read.
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
