Why We Shouldn't Judge the Elderly

Becoming old can be hard for some elderly. I have found from my perspective that there is a lot of elderly people in nursing homes and living in their own homes find they are forgotten by family or friends. It seems as we get older people don't take them as serious as they would if they were younger. Case in point my mother she always had friends and family but once she became elderly and my dad passed on she was left alone by them a scene which I personally have seen over and over again with visiting a nursing home.

What I feel which is only my opinion not the readers is people are to busy and don't take the time to see their loved one who is aged. They get it in their head that there loved one will always be there. Also as some elderly age they become sickly with various ailments and aren't what they used to be in mind or body. My feeling is take the time to visit your loved one no matter if their sick or not any little contact believe or not means a lot to them. Just because they are not the same as they used to be isn't a sentence of loneliness.

My mother has been treated like a little kid when shopping because she is perceived as old and senile. She is a very intelligent woman. I think the cashiers mean well but it seems to be a stereotype that older people are talked to like children. I as the author have seen that a lot while accompanying my mom to different places. We all will age and become elderly think about it would we like to be treated as some elderly people are. I as the author wouldn't. How sad it is that some people don't realize that the elderly are a jewel to our past.