tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post1801824288512639279..comments2023-10-31T05:56:45.788-07:00Comments on LutheranChik's "L" Word Diary: Don't Mind Me...It's Just My Existential CrisisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-35846703784376094422008-08-15T08:36:00.000-07:002008-08-15T08:36:00.000-07:00Good points. Here's another theory: When the sen...Good points. Here's another theory: When the senior lunches, et al, started, they were a NEW means for seniors to gather; there hadn't been such organization before. But 20 or 30 years later, there are more choices. The newly senior-ed people don't want to think of themselves as OLD, "like those people." <BR/><BR/>Heck, I'm a bit older then mom was when my mom started going to senior groups with my dad, who was much older. I don't want to think of myself on the verge of senior-ness, although I got my first AARP letter about 8 years ago.LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-32998046146248499222008-08-15T08:00:00.000-07:002008-08-15T08:00:00.000-07:00With the disclaimer that I'm speaking to my own re...With the disclaimer that I'm speaking to my own redundancy here...I think that senior meal programs for active older adults are a huge waste of money and time; that that money should be re-channeled into "meals on wheels" programs for homebound older adults who are truly at nutritional risk. The active seniors want to be left alone to do their own thing. But maybe they could get some sort of financial incentive, like a substantial discount on drug co-pays and the like, if they have proof of membership at a gym/athletic club, a weight-management group like Weight Watchers or TOPS, etc. (My God -- I'm starting to sound like a Republican.) But it's true...active older adults don't want to sit in a church basement at lunchtime and eat government-vetted casseroles. The Depression generation is passing. This particular senior-services sacred cow needs reincarnating into a program that people actually want.<BR/><BR/>There...I said it and I'm glad.LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-52624612753339838922008-08-15T07:32:00.000-07:002008-08-15T07:32:00.000-07:00When my mom retired, she went to the senior lunche...When my mom retired, she went to the senior lunches in her town for awhile until she discovered "swim and gym" at the YMCA. And free movies at the Library. No more senior lunches; she was too busy. I think the activity kept her going. She is now 90.LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-13050843366452045992008-08-14T15:10:00.000-07:002008-08-14T15:10:00.000-07:00Our senior center does not accept people in poor h...Our senior center does not accept people in poor health and certainly not people on oxygen taks. On the good side-no smoking allowed.<BR/>Cheers, NaomiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-65893662214763148642008-08-14T10:29:00.000-07:002008-08-14T10:29:00.000-07:00Foiled by the success of our culture to keep peopl...Foiled by the success of our culture to keep people active and healthy......LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.com