Topics > Aging
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My company says I have to retire in a few months and I'm dreading it. I can't imagine not working, and anyway, I've seen too many people just wither away after they retired. I don't want that to happen to me. What advice would you give me?
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I'll be celebrating my 90th birthday in a few weeks. What advice do you have for an old man like me, since I understand you celebrated your 90th birthday just a few months ago?
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Our mother (in her 80s) fell and broke her hip a few weeks ago, and her doctor has told us she can't live alone any longer. She's in a rehab center now, but when my brother talked to her about moving out of her house and into a nursing home she got very angry. How can we convince her? We only want what's best for her.
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I heard somewhere that you'll soon be celebrating your 90th birthday. My sincere congratulations and best wishes to you for such a long life! When is it, anyway? And what are your thoughts about living so long? Do you ever wish you could just go on to heaven?
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Why don't churches try to get some of their members to visit lonely people in nursing homes?
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My husband and I are elderly. Are we wrong not to make the effort to keep going to our church?
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I turned my back on God over 60 years ago. Now I'm old and dying, and I wish I'd taken a different road. Please tell young people not to do what I did.
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My mother has become very irrational, but my father won't take her to the doctor. Is there anything I can do?
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I've been thinking about leaving my estranged family out of my will and giving everything to charity. Would that be wrong?
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I know this is controversial, but I don't see anything wrong with letting old people take their own lives if they want to. What do you think of this?
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Our church is trying to get a group together to visit some of the local nursing homes. I've never been around older people much and I wonder if I'll be able to relate to them.
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My husband retired a year ago, and now he's bored and constantly gets in my way. Do you have any suggestions?