When you get older
Do you ever think about what might happen to you as you get older? No, I don’t mean wrinkles, backache and so on. I mean, do you wonder if you’ll be able to continue living on your own in a house, apartment or condo ?
Does the prospect of ending up in a nursing home come to your mind? When you have lost your mobility or can’t really move around – even in wheelchairs or something, you don’t really have a choice, even if you don’t want to be in the position of having others care for you.
My parents in laws are both cancer survivors, but they are healthy now and are quite mobile. They moved into a retirement community recently. The retirement community is set up so that people are living in apartment like dwellings – similar to if they were living on their own. The only major difference is that everyone who’s living in the retirement community is around the same age, the meals are prepared for them. The retirement community also has a communal area where community related activities are organized and the residents can socialize with one another.
Whether you are living on your own or living with relatives, that’s fine if you are able to cope with it. But, if you don’t have enough people in your lives to visit you as often or you are feeling lonely, living in a retirement community is not a bad idea at all. What do you think?
