Actively Senior

Do you remember 50 or 60 years ago the games you played with your friends? Games like . hide and seek, hopscotch, marbles, jump rope, tag, London Bridge, Mother May I?…. On rainy and cold days, how about Chinese checkers, monopoly, tic tac toe, tea parties, cutting paper dolls from catalogs?

Remember dashing out the door to meet your friends for play all over the neighborhood, popping in occasionally for drinks and lunch, until twilight time when you were called in for dinner? And then, remember chasing fire flies?

A far cry from the Nintendos, Play Stations, Game Boys and computers that kids play on today. Sad to say it’s no longer safe for today’s children to play unsupervised all over the block or at friends’ houses.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became an adult, I put away childish things. (I Cor. 13, v11) Yes, that time came for all of us. Adult playtime changed to time snatched away from careers, jobs and occasionally families to do a few favorite things. Golf, bowling, parties, dancing, card games with friends and hobbies became our playtime.

But now we are Senior Citizens, basically retired from the day to day responsibilities of job and raising children and we have rediscovered PLAYTIME! Now we have the time to do all the things we longed for in our frantic middle years. Everything from improving our golf game to jaunts with the Red Hat ladies. We take classes, learn new dance steps, enjoy table games like bridge and dominoes, develop our hobbies, do arts and crafts, take pictures, even write blogs! In fact, a common complaint from the active senior is that: “I don’t know how I ever found time to work before.”

The group pictured below not only has fun pickin’ and grinnin’ but they travel to various nursing homes in their area to play for senior residents. The group is flexible and may change from day to day, but there are usually 10-15 participating, featuring singers, guitars, banjos and a mandolin.

Are you a working Grandma or Grandpa? If you are, enjoy the experience. If you are not, but think you may need to be for financial reasons, read on!

Although many retired seniors have pensions and investments sufficient to cover all expenses, numerous others do not. There are a few people with lots of money who continue working in their chosen field just because they want to work. What about those of us who are less fortunate?

Step indoors a long-term care retirement group of people in city center, and you’ll pledge you’ve entered a chic boutique inn. The inside of the grand marble construction, which opened last year, was intended with an eye toward feature. We tried to set up a typical, yet fresh look with cool fireplaces, a stylish palette, warm ensign and comfortable furnishings. Everything in there has a fairy-tale behind it, like the clever lighting, interesting wall hangings and art. It was premeditated to be chatty. Links. Even the furniture is not what you normally see in elder communities.

i Max… Yes, we are beginning a journey of discovery here. Through these pages we will see how many senior citizens no longer fit the stereotyped images of elderly, poor and failing people. Today’s seniors are vibrant, alive, involved and enthusiastic.

As a senior citizen myself I have become aware of how many of us are changing as we experience new things. For us life is far from over; living richly has become the standard of life for many. By Canadian medicine now

So please journey with us down the road of discovery. Perhaps you will find your own life reflected as we review senior life today.

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