"Gil" wrote in message
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Robatoy wrote:
On Jan 22, 10:12 pm, Gil wrote:
Lee Michaels wrote:

"DGDevin" wrote in message
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However, from what we learned, the option to go into a home would have
been taken care of by the province, but they just didn't want to leave
their property. They also had no known family other than each other.

So true, and if possible, keep them out of any retirement home till the last
minute.
I am involved with a Community based project where we try to get retired men
out and about doing odd things, like woodwork, toy making, cabinet making,
that sort of stuff and what I have found is that when a man retires, he has
been out of his house for 10 hours a day 5 days or sometimes 6 days a week
for the past 50 years, then he retires, and is home all the time, getting
under the feet of his partner, who has had the house to herself for that
length of time, then this almost stranger arrives and sits in her sitting
room watching football or some sport on her TV when she is used to watching
Oprah Winfrey or Dr Phil, this is when arguments start, then because of the
man doing nothing all day, he stagnates and vegetates and goes downhill so
fast, that before long, he is in a wooden box being lowered into the ground.
So, my purpose and the purpose of our group, is to get these men out into a
workshop, doing something with their knowledge and time, maybe teaching
someone else things they didn't know, or maybe they knew something about it
but didn't have the finesse to make the job right.

But, by digressing, I have got away from the original point of keeping
retired men active.
Don't put your oldies into a retirement home till absolutely necessary.
My youngest sister put my parents into a home and they lasted only 5 years
after that.
She could see money in their little house.
But, uprooting elderly people from their home eventually kills them, more
sooner than later