Flooring advice for seniors
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Comments (11)Thank you all for your comments about my "senior attitude" I was pleased that so many agreed with me regardless if you are a senior or not. The world is a crazy place now so i would like to tell congress stop making life more difficult and go plant roses!!! My barefoot roses in the containers are loaded with buds and several, Mardi Gras and French Lace are ready to open and share their color for us. I check up on them every morning when I have coffee with my dogs on the porch. Maggie and jake are 2 Shitz Zoe rescue dogs who know when I say "Lets go and check out the roses"--they both run to the door and shake their fluffy little tails and can't wait until we go out. (Could it possibly be they know there is a cookie waiting out there for them and it not the roses themselves that attract them?) Living in a senior condo development built around a 40 year old golf course is not so bad. I get to garden the things that I want, like roses and nasturtiums, and not have to worry about who will mow the grass and clip the shrubs. I will take pictures of my lovely ladies when they are all blooming. I just have to figure how to add the pictures. In my next post I will include the names of these newly planted lovelies. Most are floribundas. I wish you all either a good planting week or at least a peaceful time checking out rose books and planning your garden so you will be ready when spring finally arrives in your area. Judith...See MoreSenior/Elder Pet Care Ideas
Comments (35)For all my old pets I give subcutaneous fluids at least once a week. Most of my older dogs and cats have had some degree of kidney insufficiency in their later years and hydration alleviates the nausea associated with it and perks up their appetites. I believe this has extended most of their lives, but more importantly it keeps them comfortable. Probably of all the things I've done to help my senior pets, this has made the most improvement to their lives. My older cats enjoy(ed) their heating pad covered with a towel. In or near their 20s, they have all lost weight and it was/is harder for them to generate enough of their own body heat to stay warm. I have a 4 foot wide gradually sloping ramp that I built so that my old dogs do not have to climb stairs to get in and out of the back door into the yard. I covered it in that fake grass indoor/outdoor carpetting so that it is not slippery. It is tough stuff and I can scrape snow and ice off it without harming it. For my collie in the last months of his life (He had an inoperable tumor in his abdomen that I believe caused him to be incontinent) I wrapped his beds with plastic tarps and covered that with washable and comfy fleece blankets. (His beds were 2" thick blocks of dense upholstery foam that I had made for him when his arthritis made it too hard for him to get up on the couch.) When he slept urine would just run out of him, so I could just change his blanket and sponge off the waterproof tarp-covered bed with soap and water. I had about half a dozen blankets that I would just throw in the washer everyday. It was a system that was easy for me and comfortable sleeping for him. Likewise my last two cats in their 20s were "leaky" when they slept. I lined all of their beds with plastic waterproof tablecloths, cut to fit. Then I covered that with soft cloths made from old towels and old clothes that were disposable. I affixed the disposable bedding to their beds with masking tape that I could tear off the next day. I had boxes of discarded fabric items cut into cat-bed-sized linens. When the supply began to run low I bought a box of hospital pads and used those. When my dogs were very old their appetites waned. I home cook for all my pets, and I cooked only those foods that they liked the best in their last days, because it was most important for them to eat to keep up their strength and to get adequate nutrition. Poultry was a favorite, and I cooked many a 25 lb turkey back then. Toward the end it was too hard for my guys to stand to eat a meal, so I hand fed them so they could eat lying down. For my dogs, glucosamine/chondroitin and fish oil capsules have helped their arthritis noticably. Eventually old age gets the upper hand, but these remedies stave off the crippling effects of arthritis for some time. I hope some of these suggestions will help you with your older pets. I find it very rewarding to care for my pets in their later years. There are so many ways to make their lives more comfortable, and to provide them with contentment. They appreciate the extra care and enjoy this phase in their lives, even though their world and activities have shrunk from what they once were. And now that I, too, am old I can empathize even more with the difficulties they have, and instinctively take steps to alleviate them....See MoreSenior dog losing use of back legs
Comments (11)I would expect that a "country vet" might have clients that raise animals for slaughter. I also suspect that those ranchers certainly can distinguish between a "profit center" and a "pet"but the Vet and the Rancher may be somewhat more pragmatic in their end-of-life decisions. I have a Greyhound dog that raced 147 races at the track in Tampa, FL, before sustaining a non life-threatening injury. It appears that she was very well taken care of while she was winning but when she injured herself she was a money-loser and was likely going to be destroyed. She's sleeping by feet as I type and I periodically send photos to her her original owner in FL. He had named her after a granddaughter of his, but it was about owing a "pet." I suspect when I have to let her go, I'll cry, her original owner will not....See MoreLooking at senior living for my elderly parents--
Comments (44)warning/long rant here. My StD is about 3 yrs younger than my Mom. She just turned 87. She needed a shoulder replacement 10 -15 yrs ago, and refused to do it. Now she's in immense pain from that as well as arthritis in her feet so badly that makes it so difficult for her to even walk. My StD literally brags on the fact that she doesn't take any medication, when in reality, her pain would be reduced if she would! But he is against "taking pills." Then again, he's not the one in constant pain. Right before C-vid shut the world down, I finally convinced her to get a housekeeper to come in every week to help. She wasn't thrilled, but adjusted, and then she got used to them coming. She would even make comments like. "Oh I'll leave that for the housekeepers to tend to" which was pretty funny , since she fussed about them in the 1st place. Then that ended. StD was happy it ended because it was something they had to pay for, yet he doesn't do much to help. He is so tight he squeaks when he walks. He has decided they are NOT going to move in to any kind of facility any time soon. He's "not ready" to give up his grandiose house in his grandiose neighborhood and his doctor/attorney/business owner neighbors. I kid you not, when we go to visit, he has me drive around the neighborhood and points out who lives where and what they do for a living, as if I care and as if these people are going to be the ones to take care of them. On the other hand, my Mother would move here in a heartbeat. There is nothing I can do to change his mind and frankly, I'm not even going to try. It breaks my heart that my Mother isn't going to be closer, and I can't just make an impromptu visit on a whim. I can see a big change in her. The lock down has taken a harsh toll on her. She has struggled with depression in the past, and I fear that is starting to set in again. She craves being with family, and he craves appearing to have an ostentatious lifestyle. Sadly, no one is impressed with this but him. Kswl- no need to apologize at all. :-) Thank you all for the input. I'll file it away for a rainy day....See Moredgalella
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