The issue of growing older is a very debatable subject…I have been thinking a lot about this and I came to the conclusion that it’s very different for everyone, so many things play into this stage of our lives. In older days when I was a youngster we always had family and friends around, if a family member was ill or they lost their job, everyone automatically helped them out. As for seniors, they didn’t go into a home but rather they moved in with their children. It was always the way things were done and everyone got lots of love and attention. In the world we live in today it goes without saying is so very changed and in some ways it’s better but not when it comes to family. As seniors we probably feel it the most because we need so much more care and there’s the problem, young people want so much more and they are working long hours to try to stay on top of everything, they want more and more all the time. I think the first to be handled over to get help with were our children, we just didn’t have enough time and keep us with the rising cost of living. As women we were forced to leave the home and go to work, this is in my opinion when everything started to change. I’m curious how it will eventually work itself out, putting seniors in assisted living is more expensive like everything else and not many people can afford to do this, not to mention it’s so very sad that they have to live out their final days in a clinical environment, no thanks for all the years they invested in their families.