Yeah..but granddad wasn't trying to take out millions of people with him....
I agree that some of these older people such as Biden, Pelosi, Fauci and others, are on the decline and should not be holding high office. However, you can't really make a determination based upon age alone. Everyone is different. My Dad is 90, and I take care of him at home. He has had moderate dementia for several years and cannot think things through at all: --and I am certain that if he was kept in a nursing home he would be much worse. But, we know an 84 year old practitioner at the medical clinic we go to, who at her age is still extremely sharp and effective. She is still exercising her brain and I would not want to force her to retire just yet.
If your father was in a nursing home he would have been dead by now. They put everyone on anti-depressants and sedatives even if they aren't needed, and the average lifespan of someone put into a nursing home is about 3 months from the time they enter the place. I wouldn't put any of my relatives or people I care about into such a place under any circumstances. I've got a family friend who is 96 who looks like she's in her 60s. When she said she was born in 1925 I had to ask her again to make sure, because I was in disbelief. Sharp as a tack, too. Her daughter also inherited the same genes, she's is in her early 70s but looks like she's in her 40s.
Yeah I feel the same way about the nursing homes. I have had doctors recommend that Dad should go to a "care facility" for "rehab" several times, and I say "no way." So far I have been able to take care of him here and he is pretty happy.
Yes, those people exist, they don't all get dementia from their 60th.
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