Curious - How Old Is Everybody?

[Iain A]

2 years into social security eligibility...

 

[SPORTSCAR]

66 and eyeing up a cessation of working every day for the boatyard. On paper we should only have to eat cat food on an occasional basis but time will tell.

Not that I am planning on early retirement any time soon but more than 50 years of careful planning together with a series of shrewd investments should see my retirement funding hold out for many weeks.

 

[SPORTSCAR]

How times have changed, eh?

This place has changed but is still fun to hang around. Todays music sucks goats balls. But so far I have my health and my family so, as Metallica so succinctly stated; Nothing else matters. Life goes on until it doesn't.

 

[LB 15]

I used to trip over a lot. Now my wife calls it ‘having a fall’. I am 62 and I have seen more fucking doctors in the past 2 years than I did in the preceding 60.
If only I had treated my body more like a temple and less like a theme park.

 

[LB 15]

Not that I am planning on early retirement any time soon but more than 50 years of careful planning together with a series of shrewd investments should see my retirement funding hold out for many weeks.

My retirement plan of marrying a younger bride is working out for me so far...but she is getting sick of working.

 

[boomer]

Not that I am planning on early retirement any time soon but more than 50 years of careful planning together with a series of shrewd investments should see my retirement funding hold out for many weeks.

Going on my 11th year of retirement this past November. Figured I had enough coming from SS, investments, one retirement, and two pensions to withstand the average 1960-2021 inflation rate of 3.8% per year, should easily support my wife who'll probably live well into her 90s - however last years inflation rate has me wondering, how long before we return to the average - if ever. Was hoping this next recession would be a good one, and help correct real estate prices for my grandchildren. How long and deep might the recession be? One of the more pessimistic projections is from the Conference Board, which predicts three straight quarters of negative GDP growth (-0.6%, -1.7%, -0.5%) to start the year. In the fourth quarter, it projects a small rebound — a 1.1% rise in GDP. I was hoping for a longer and more severe recession to correct this OTT housing market, and though realty prices have been falling, not falling near enough.

 

[ShortForBob]

Gremlin in my car.

Yesterday,
drive to daughters via the shop, get to daughters, cant find my car keys and my house key.
Have spare car key, borrow my daughters key to my house.
Stop at shop to see if anyone handed in keys. No.
Get home, cant find my daughters key to my house.
Call son, drive to his place to borrow HIS key to my house.
This morning, search everywhere, no keys, drive to shop to re check. nope
Drive to Mr Minit get new keys for house and car. $260.
Start to drive home. cant find driving glasses (always left in the car)
Drive 2km carefully, Have another look for glasses.
Find old car keys wedged between passenger seat and console. I swear they were not there last night.
Search house for spare driving glasses. Find my regular driving glasses in the letter box. With

Ta da! a parking fine.

Gremlins

 

[boomer]

I used to trip over a lot. Now my wife calls it ‘having a fall’. I am 62 and I have seen more fucking doctors in the past 2 years than I did in the preceding 60.
If only I had treated my body more like a temple and less like a theme park.

I'm amazed at the amount, that the over 65 crowd fall. Seems to be a common occurrence in more then a few of the geezer groups I'm in, with many falling regularly on a weekly and monthly basis, tearing rotator cuffs, spraining and breaking wrists and so forth.

Need to survey your paths, to assure you don't fall. That's what I do always, only falling a couple times in the past four and a half years, and when I have fallen, never try and catch myself and cause more of an injury.

Learned how to fall long ago for self preservation in my trade. Just go with the fall and roll or do a lower arm or hand slap. Plenty of videos on Youtube to show you how to fall properly. We don't want to risk breaking a hip at this point, and more so as we age.

Falling Safely

 

[ShortForBob]

I'm amazed at the amount, that the over 65 crowd fall. Seems to be a common occurrence in more then a few of the geezer groups I'm in, with some falling regularly on a weekly and monthly basis, tearing rotator cuffs, spraining and breaking wrists and so forth. Need to survey your paths, to assure you don't fall. That's what I do always, only falling a couple times in the past four and a half years, and when I have fallen, never try and catch myself and cause more of an injury. Learned how to fall long ago for self preservation in my trade. Just go with the fall and roll or do a hand slap. Plenty of videos on youtube to show you how to fall properly. We don't want to risk breaking a hip at this point, and more so as we age.

Falling Safely

Kindly fuck off

" I had a fall" is the last thing you'll say before the authorities stamp a (only visible to millennials ,doctors staff and bank tellers) "geriatric" sign on your forehead.

 

[boomer]

Gremlin in my car.

Yesterday,
drive to daughters via the shop, get to daughters, cant find my car keys and my house key.
Have spare car key, borrow my daughters key to my house.
Stop at shop to see if anyone handed in keys. No.
Get home, cant find my daughters key to my house.
Call son, drive to his place to borrow HIS key to my house.
This morning, search everywhere, no keys, drive to shop to re check. nope
Drive to Mr Minit get new keys for house and car. $260.
Start to drive home. cant find driving glasses (always left in the car)
Drive 2km carefully, Have another look for glasses.
Find old car keys wedged between passenger seat and console. I swear they were not there last night.
Search house for spare driving glasses. Find my regular driving glasses in the letter box. With

Ta da! a parking fine.

Gremlins

Key finders work great for keys and other common items you misplace.

 

[boomer]

Kindly fuck off

" I had a fall" is the last thing you'll say before the authorities stamp a (only visible to millennials ,doctors staff and bank tellers) "geriatric" sign on your forehead.

Kindly fuck off, eh. That's choice. Are you usually so considerate. Do you fall a lot?

 

[ShortForBob]

Kindly fuck off, eh. That's choice. Do you fall a lot?

It's always best to survey and pay attention to the route your walking -

or are you just naturally oblivious.

Only occasionally when wearing 5" heels on uneven pavements.

Sorry, it was the over 65 bit. 66 is a bit young to be talking about fall prevention in the geriatric sense IMHO. (i'm 63)
Falls in the frail are indeed something to take steps to prevent and learn how to fall correctly.
Bone density scans (especially in women) vitamin D intake a must for everyone over 60 and post menopausal.

When both my mother and MIL were in assisted living care I was surprised they were not routinely give VitD sups.
My mother and many others found the insistence they use wheeled walkers everywhere they went, degrading and humiliating when they felt they didn't need one.
Many of the residents where fit and doing regular yoga and stuff, cycling even.

I'm starting a anti ageist campaign for nursing homes and aged care. The first time someone answers my daughter when I ask a question, steps will be taken and letters written.
Pogo -ing will be encouraged and no one will be asked if they want to come outside and feed the birdies. (even if some do have dementia)

I don't consider 66 elderly.
I don't consider 86 elderly.
Elderly is a state of mind, usually in the minds of whipper snippers.

 

[LB 15]

My retirement plan of marrying a younger bride is working out for me so far...but she is getting sick of working.

I'm amazed at the amount, that the over 65 crowd fall. Seems to be a common occurrence in more then a few of the geezer groups I'm in, with many falling regularly on a weekly and monthly basis, tearing rotator cuffs, spraining and breaking wrists and so forth.

Need to survey your paths, to assure you don't fall. That's what I do always, only falling a couple times in the past four and a half years, and when I have fallen, never try and catch myself and cause more of an injury.

Learned how to fall long ago for self preservation in my trade. Just go with the fall and roll or do a lower arm or hand slap. Plenty of videos on Youtube to show you how to fall properly. We don't want to risk breaking a hip at this point, and more so as we age.

Falling Safely

I find it not the falling that worries me, it’s the landing.

 

[LB 15]

Kindly fuck off, eh. That's choice. Are you usually so considerate. Do you fall a lot?

She is our little ray of sunshine down here. That is why we all enjoy hanging so much shit on her. Her next move will be to put you on double secret ignore and then comment on your posts. We have a name for her condition in Australia. It is called being ‘fucked in the head.’

 

[boomer]

Only occasionally when wearing 5" heels on uneven pavements.

Sorry, it was the over 65 bit. 66 is a bit young to be talking about fall prevention in the geriatric sense IMHO. (i'm 63)
Falls in the frail are indeed something to take steps to prevent and learn how to fall correctly.
Bone density scans (especially in women) vitamin D intake a must for everyone over 60 and post menopausal.

When both my mother and MIL were in assisted living care I was surprised they were not routinely give VitD sups.
My mother and many others found the insistence they use wheeled walkers everywhere they went, degrading and humiliating when they felt they didn't need one.
Many of the residents where fit and doing regular yoga and stuff, cycling even.

I'm starting a anti ageist campaign for nursing homes and aged care. The first time someone answers my daughter when I ask a question, steps will be taken and letters written.
Pogo -ing will be encouraged and no one will be asked if they want to come outside and feed the birdies. (even if some do have dementia)

I don't consider 66 elderly.
I don't consider 86 elderly.
Elderly is a state of mind, usually in the minds of whipper snippers.Depends

Who's 66? Did I say elderly. I said over 65 crowd, who should by that age diligently practice being safe, rather then risk breaking bones or a hip. All ages should be safe, and no need to getting hurt at any age.

Unfortunately people do stupid schitt, like people who don't mask. I knew as soon as masking came out there would be problems, because adults do stupid schitt, like willfully ignoring wearing PPE. Anyone who works in a trade that requires using PPE, are well aware of this problem. Sometimes it feels like they're running a daycare center for adults.

There are people in their middle to late 50s who fall regularly. In fact I've seen people who have fallen regularly, or do stupid unsafe schitt, in their teens, 20s and 30s.

If they were doing high work for me on elevated platforms with others, I'd ask that use due caution. I don't like see people needlessly risk other peoples being injured or worse. If they didn't and weren't practicing best safe practices, they were warned, that they only got one more warning - after the second warning, handed them two checks and escorted them off the job.

I've always expected anyone doing high work to perform best safe working practices. The same with people working on the ground, if they continually ignore best safe working practices, I don't want them on my job, or around my people.

You don't have to be elderly to hurt yourself or others - people of all ages do stupid unsafe schitt. Don't like being safe, then stay away from me.

I hear it all the time from amputees, they don't like people staring at them or the looks they get when they use a walker. People look at people who are amputees, use a cane, walker or use a wheel chair - because they're not used to seeing such. If those who should be using a cane, walker or wheelchair and don't, because they feel humiliated using a walker - because those operating their facility require best safe practices - need to understand why those facilities require best safe practices - because they don't want elderly practicing not being safe and not doing stupid schitt and hurting themselves.

I live at home and not in a care facility yet, and hope I never have to do so. But there are no guarantees. If I have to use a cane, it's for making my life easy - the same with a walker, and I have several for when I don't wear my prosthetic leg. My wife does elderly and handicapped care, so we have several wheel chairs from basic to more sturdy wheel chairs, but no electric wheel chairs yet. Hopefully I'll always be able to use prosthetics.

Today's best micro-processor prosthetics, usually have at least four micro-processors in the knee, and I have the only prosthetic that also had micro-processors in the ankle and a gyro in the foot. The next best thing coming up is next generation sockets and stump liners with a film with a myriad of sensors that communicate with the nerves in the stump. Designed by DARPA and Stanford for military vets, is already being used in arm and hand prosthetics.

The only good thing to come out of US involvement in Iraq and Afganistan, is the advances in prosthetics over the last 20 years, so that officers and Special Forces can continue to work in the field, and with next gen prosthetics, amputees will become bionic. BTW the groups I'm in, are amputee groups on Facebook, we're there for each other, and the majority fall a lot - those of us, a fraction of the group, who use best safe practices rarely if ever fall.

My Linx system leg, knee, ankle and foot prosthetic below being displayed by a Falklands War Vet Grant who's a math teacher now and has seen and used all the various advances in the former antique prosthetics since he lost a leg in the Falklands War, and a few more videos, including the Ottobock Genium X3 waterproof knee, leg and foot - my next prosthetic as soon as they incorporate the Endolite Linx's ankle/foot features, and a final video of amputee Green Beret Warrant Officer Nick Lavery. I do hope your not phucked in the head, but rather just a concerned somewhat elderly lady. All the best to you and take care.

 

[ShortForBob]

Who's 66? Did I say elderly. I said over 65 crowd, who should by that age diligently practice being safe, rather then risk breaking bones or a hip. All ages should be safe, and no need to getting hurt at any age.

Chill Boomer.
You're talking to someone that spent their early life career dedicated to OH& S, working with employers to ensure they provided best OH&S practice and enforced OH&S legislation and making sure that injured workers got their full dues.

You'll get no arguments from me re prevention, I'm just objecting to the idea that at 66 we plan our lives around possible injury. seems a little doomer.
Though I didn't realise you had a personal stake in the subject. My son very narrowly avoided a prothesis when he was 2-18 and has ambitions to become a biomed engineer.

 

[boomer]

I've always been a smooth operator with good hands, and I'm always chill.

Disrespect me and I'm assertive, don't like it, don't disrespect me.

All ages from children to elderly should use best safe practices - unfortunately many don't.

Been running daycare centers for adults in some of the most dangerous and extreme environments, since I was put in a leadership position in the service.

Once again, all the best.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

 

[Ease the sheet.]

Falling is only a minor danger.
It's the inability to get up that really fucks people...

 

[chester]

I used to trip over a lot. Now my wife calls it ‘having a fall’. I am 62 and I have seen more fucking doctors in the past 2 years than I did in the preceding 60.
If only I had treated my body more like a temple and less like a theme park.

stay the hell out of mexico...this whole fucking country is one continous tripping hazard