source: Harry Benson
90-year-old Illinois resident Celia Goldie belts out a rendition of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” in 1988.
Two things I notice right off the bat:
- Old peeps are always cold and keep the cardigan market in business.
- Men die first.
Just look how even the gender population is at age 64. But by 85, the men are barely represented.
If you’re interested in moving in, the Lieberman Center serves kosher food, and the current daily rate for a room is $278. Wow–that’s more than double our daily household income! But keep in mind that most of that is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
For her part, Mrs. Goldie was quoted as saying, “I hope I drop dead before I’m here one year.” She was profiled in an October 1988 People article as such:
Nearby, a nurse spoon-feeds ice cream to a man strapped into a wheelchair. Beside him, a woman dozes, her head against her walker.
“Look at them—half of them are dead,” Celia says, waving her hand. “I’m alive. I guess I have to make the best of a bad bargain. What can I do? I can’t go back. So I have to like it here. You look around you, and you realize how grateful you are.”
Per articles.chicagotribune.com, she died in September of 1989 at Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie. She had been a resident of the Lieberman Geriatric Center for 13 1/2 months.
For more on Celia’s story, visit: http://www.people.com/.
I am glad she was singing. I thought she was having a stroke.
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Well, she died the next year. I had to update it. 😦
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That’s too bad;but not unexpected.
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We will be lucky to see 91.
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Hey I will be tickled pink to see 80
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At two restaurants per week, that’s still at least 1500 more posts. 😉
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Cool. At least I know I won’t die from malnutrition.
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Ha!
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Different world. We seek peace now and as we get older we seek engagement.
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That is a deep thought, Paul. I will be thinking about that.
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The moral here is stay out of nurshing homes. People are living to much higher ages when they are cared for properly and when they care for themselves. I’ve relatives in their 90s who are still working and travelling abroad, and I’ve had relatives living into their 100s. None of them were in nursing homes, to my knowledge.
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Apologies for typos!
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You segued from funny to serious – tricky like that. We try to live as long as we can, but sometimes quality of life not so great at the very end.
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Right on.
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