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06-26-2019, 03:58 PM | #46 | |
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06-26-2019, 08:08 PM | #50 |
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My mother will be 82 in August and has Macular Degeneration. She can no longer read. She still bakes a lot and she mows her lawn. Maybe not as well as she used to, but she still mows. She does watch TV, but it is more that she listens to it more than watches. She likes the old movies and can see the action in her head.
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06-26-2019, 10:13 PM | #51 | |
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I got the tail end of a story last week about a 95 year old skydiver. I'm not quite sure what the story was but I'm pretty sure a 95 year old was skydiving. I think President Bush the first did something similar. I just googled it and found that last year a 102 year old grandmother celebrated her birthday by skydiving last year. Also the oldest bungee jumper, according to Guiness, made a 708 foot bungee jump at age 96. When I was younger I was in the Houston Bike club and made 50 or 60 mile rides on a lot of Sundays with the club in the hot Houston weather. Probably 1/3 of the people on those rides were in their 60s or 70s. On one ride from Houston to Austin, 200 miles on the route we had to take, almost half of the people who finished were in their 70s and 80s. This wasn't a race of course. Everybody went at their own pace and the older people were usually a little slower arriving. By the way, half that ride was uphill. Everybody has different limits and as long as we're thinking clearly we should be able to define those limits for ourselves. Barry |
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06-27-2019, 01:52 AM | #52 |
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My mother has Alzheimer's, she no longer does anything but watch TV and occasionally go for a walk. Physically she's healthy, but her mind is slowly going. She's *only* 82, but her memory and mental agility are pretty bad already. She can no longer understand most of what's on TV, but she still wants it to play all the time. It's very sad, because only 5 years ago she was a completely different person - smart, active, interested in political debates among other things (we used to tease her because of it). She liked to bake, now she can't remember any of her recipes or even how to use the oven at all.
My dad, who died a year ago from heart failure (he was nearly 80), didn't suffer from any mental degeneration. His mind was as sharp as it had always been, he used tablets and smartphones. He had never been a reader of books, but he liked to read the news and watch the sport broadcasts. It's a bit funny that neither of my parents were book readers, but I was a total bookworm from a very early age. My grandmother liked to read, though. I guess I inherited the love of books from her. |
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06-27-2019, 04:46 AM | #54 | |
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Pretty much all my age compatriots around here grew up reading for pleasure, and still do. |
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06-27-2019, 08:31 AM | #55 |
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I don't consider myself a "senior" yet (in my mid 50s; according to most definitions I've seen I am at the tail end of the Baby Boom generation) however, I grew up in the age of 3 networks, in a family where reading for entertainment was encouraged.
I know people of various ages from my age on up to 80s who do read regularly. I don't know a lot of younger people so i can't really compare generations. |
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Most of the seniors around me are avid readers also, as are almost all of the children and a fair few of the teenagers. |
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06-27-2019, 09:20 AM | #57 |
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I can not remember a time I did not read. My father only read the newspaper. My Mother read. Her father read a lot and one of my father's brothers read a lot. We were a military family and were always far away from both families. I was the go between for my Grandfather and Uncle. I would swap books with one and when I next visited the other, I would swap again. Rinse and repeat.
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06-27-2019, 09:23 AM | #58 | |
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The anecdotal evidence in this thread about aging parents who still watch television even as they've had to abandon reading tends to support the notion that reading engages more of the brain. So while grownups can pick their own poison, so to speak, I do think reading is "better" for you, cognitively speaking, than television. Vegetables are better for you than ice cream, but it doesn't mean you can't enjoy ice cream. |
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06-27-2019, 09:49 AM | #59 | |
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06-27-2019, 09:52 AM | #60 | |
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That sounds like such fun. I enjoy reading books about books with the author's experience growing up and bonding over books with other people. I have no idea where I got my love of reading from, but glad it's there. |
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