The same group of bullying women have plotted and planned my demise in many various ways over and over again. Some of the male staff chooses the sides of the bullies no matter what they say and how they say it to me or better yet at me. My health is chronic and critical. I have escaped into rehablitation several times trying to pull myself away from the constant abuse that the staff friend of the bullying crue because I feel as afraid for my life as I was with co-residents as I was around my brother who just escaped prison. They have in common, prison.

I am continally discriminated against by other bullying transits. The greater problem is that some of the agents and staff members of this transition center accepts almost ABSOLUTELY NO LIABILITY for the abusive bullying persons who has been in transition for years and show NO RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY DISABLED that refuse to follow their bullying attitudes and implementations. I had enough money and valuables to move into a senior citizens independent living estate after a few days of being in transition and I passed all tests the transition center required of me...within 7 days.

I am stuck in transition housing. I was forced out of my home when my brother decided after prison he would come and take control of my home that mama left me. He chose to extend the take over to inducing my death plans were implemented several times.I was abusively forced out of my home after I was coerced into taking primary care of him and before him my mother who left me the property.

My apartment complex property manager has not repaired the expanding hole in my handicapped parking space in over a year while recently repairing other holes around the complex parking lot.

Anytime someone real young complain about an older person I will say "is your calendar going in reverse?"

I really wish the media would stop using the term "elderly" if someone who is in their 50's or 60's or even in their 70's made the news, especially if it was a traffic accident.

Or using "Grandmother" to lead into a new story when someone had died in an accident. I have no children, thus never will be a Grandmother, does that make me less newsworthy?

I thought more about this. There does come a time when we can't do anything to reverse the effects of time. If we were totally on board with the idea to keep trying, regardless of age, then we are leading our loved ones and ourselves to frustration and hurt. There does come a time when accepting that age is the primary factor saves us from unnecessary testing and search for a cure. We just need to have the wisdom to know when it is time for comfort care. This isn't ageism. It is just good sense.

I think it is a bit discouraging when I hear young people talking so disrespectfully about older people. They don't realize that they are talking about their future selves. How they feel about old people now will be how they feel about themselves when they get there.

I am personally majorly guilty of ageism when it comes to my mother. There are things I think would have been great when she was 78 that she didn't do. Now that she is 88 it seems to late to realize much benefit, and surgery becomes increasingly risky.

It was with mixed feelings that I learned of the …"..what do you expect?..".
Crippling neuropathy?,- well you just have to live with it! What a load of crap. Three doctors ago I was confused about the validity of my several aches and pains.
I'm amazed how M.D.s cover up their ignorance.

Aging can be a personal choice.....poor health many times comes from a refusal to care for their body mind spirit....on all levels...by eating high fat...and highly processed foods and drinks...the human body has the ability to heal and maintain itself when given what it requires to survive.an associare of mine was diagnosed with Ms..was in a wheel chair...could not speak..gained 100lbs...was heavily medicated and told that is how the rest of her life was to be....all this for11 years ...she said no it was not.....she began research...began eating raw wholesome foods only...was able to get off all meds-lost the weight-is now walking and talkin....sometimes it is genetics....but many times it is easier to just take another pill and buy into the idea that's how it is..aging itself is a disease. Recently I had an episode. Of diverticulitus...dr s said it would never go away...I would just have to live with it...they loaded me up with Medicine..sent me home..said call me for follow up..I finished their antiobotics...did research on
it..now feeding my body with what it needs..(now I am pain free and feeling
great) Ps: at the hospital everyone was astonished that at 71 I take no meds)

An elder doesn't want to be discounted because of their age, but on the other hand, they may be sucking the life out of a caregiver because of selfish expectations that "younger people should take care of their elders" or "when I'm old it's ok to say what I think, etc." In other words, wanting it both ways. The life prolonging techniques of modern medicine may be creating a social crisis for younger generations. In other words, we can defer death, but not really extend good health to nearly the same extent. So how are increasing numbers of frail elderly people going to be cared for, as the baby boomers age? Seems to me that this calls for some real, honest discussion - the problem will not go away by ignoring it, unless there is a crisis, a pandemic, say, or nuclear war, which drastically reduces the population. I realize no one likes to confront this, but refusing to talk about it particularly moral?

Rude is rude. Sometimes ageism is just a reason to be rude.

I remember reading a new article about some men mostly in their early and mid-60s who were protesting some (political) issue I can't specifically remember, and the comments on Yahoo joked that they were probably with canes, hearing aids and walkers. I wrote a response saying that people in that age group AREN'T typically like that; that description is more appropriate for SOME in their 80s, perhaps. I guess to someone who is 20, even 60 seems "very old".

Ageism is at the root of alot of corruption and abuse. People are being forced into guardianships just because they are old and have money and they are losing all of the civil and consititutional rights and are being robbed of their liberty and property. It is just too easy for someone to tell and uncaring judge or convince a corrupt judge to declare a person incompetent. I know of one woman who forgot to pay a bill and ended up in a guardianship where she lost everything.

Thank you very much for this article. I have heard that all too often "what should you expect, that's what happens when we get older". My dad was experiencing depression in his 80's and the overriding sentiment from others was that, "of course they would be depressed, who wouldn't be -- it's normal when we get old", and that's just NOT true. Long-term depression is never normal.

Thanks again for an enlightening and true artile!