Befriending The Elderly..

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The elderly and seniors need friends as well as the rest of us, but we tend to forget this. We place them in a home somewhere. We assure ourselves we are doing it for their own good, but are we? Whatever it be, a retirement home or nursing home. We feel they will be well taken care of, and we can go about our everyday life. I work in a retirement home, and I have learned alot, though I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the people who have shaped our lives. I respect them, and relize they had lives before they became old. I like hearing about their lives, if they want to share with me. They tell me so much, and I learn a lot. Of course there are some that don't want to share their lives with you, and that is a shame. At the retirement home that I work at. My favorite residant is Amy. She is so upbeat! She has alot to say. She is Sooo sweet! She has no family left. Her two boys even went before her.. I feel so bad for her. My kitchen aid and I have become very attached to her. She tries to walk around the building many times a day. She is doing great, and I tell her to keep moving girl! We have also befriended the neighbors cat, who follows Amy around all the time. Lucy kitty loves Amy, and that is a good thing! At my job I'm a Cook, an overnite aid on the weekend ( just means I babysit). I have also just started housekeeping there as well. So I do alot at my job. I get so sad thinking about all the seniors and elderly folks out there. I know my daughter who is a CNA, has gotten attached to many of her people, and cried many of nights over them. My point being. Just because you have aged. Doesn't mean you were not somebody in life. Everyone had a life before they got old, and it ment something, and we should never forget that.The history is such a value to us. Would you want someone to forget you? Would you just want to be placed somewhere and be FORGGOTTEN? Would you just want to be remembered on the day you died? Just because our elderly can't contribute anymore, does not mean they were not important in this world. Please don't stick them somewhere and forget about them. They still do have feelings ya know. So what if they have health problems, and move slow or or on a lot of meds. Well even the younger people have all this going on. Bottom line. Just because you are old, does'nt mean you never lived...... If we can remember all our War hero's through all the wars, why can't we just remember the people that made our lives possilbe, and the hardships that they have endured. They didn't have what we have today.. These people worked hard and suffered. They made pennies a week. Why ? So They could be cast into the past? My favorite movie that has all emotion from beloved mother and childhood girlfriend, would be Forest Gump. You may not see the connection right away, but if you think about the movie as a whole you will. My favorite saying..Life is like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what your gonna get....