denyal issues are a big issue when dealing with eldery parents, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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>> Tiger Lily > wrote:
>> : On 9/4/2011 6:22 PM, W. Baker wrote:
>> : > Tiger > wrote:
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>> : > : The is an elderly couple who take a taxi to/from the restaurant
>> every
>> : > : day for their dinner. Dinner is 4:30 pm for them and they take
>> home 1/2
>> : > : the senior's portion they just ate. The lady indicates that a soft
>> : > : boiled egg, toast and coffee is their morning meal; the left overs
>> are
>> : > : their mid day meal; dinner ensures they have at least lunch at home
>> the
>> : > : next day.
>> : >
>> : > : i didn't define elderly
>> : > : he's 102 and she's 97
>> : >
>> : > : kate
>> : >
>> : > Do they have a senior feeding program either like senior lunches for
>> a
>> : > small fee or meals on wheels whic bring a prepared meal to the house
>> 5 das
>> : > a week? The other meals woul only entail light shopping that your
>> mother
>> : > could learn to do or that one of you could send over or oder from the
>> : > computer.
>> : >
>> : > Wendy
>>
>> : Wendy, Meals on Wheels provides this service to the elderly. I don't
>> : know about the remote area that Julie's parents live in. I know some
>> : restaurants make your choice from 10 items, prepared in advance, frozen
>> : and you only need to reheat them. These would be more upscale meals
>> and
>> : typically are a touch more appealing than the meals on wheels options.
>>
>> : kate
>>
>> In the very rural Margateville area there is a senior feeding program at
>> the local Methodist church(not church run, but gov't run) it has a luch
>> program for those who can travel or be bussed there and home delivered
>> meals for those who are homebound. Menus issues monthly-no choice, but
>> very inexpensive and standard institutional nutritions. Many of the town
>> have a similar program in Delaware county. Judging from the number of
>> food stores that Julie seems to have available at less than 50 miles
>> away,
>> I would say that her area is far less rural than Delaware County.
>
> My parents live in a suburb of Seattle with pretty much all they might
> need except perhaps for some medical specialists which is why he was
> transferred to that specific hospital. There is a grocery store within
> walking distance from their house. Also some restaurants but for the most
> part not ones they would eat in. There is a Subway. My dad likes it. My
> mom does not. My dad can not walk very far. My mom can, but given her
> macular degeneration I feel it would be unsafe for her to go out on her
> own. She knows that she has it, but seems to be in severe denial about
> how bad it is. She still seems to think that what she sees (or doesn't
> see) is what everyone else sees.
>
> When my dad was driving she would yell at him for jerking the car around
> having no clue that he had actually changed to another lane. When we
> would tell her that he did she would either say that she didn't know or
> that he really hadn't done that.
>
> Once I commented on a woman's green eye shadow (she was totally dressed in
> green) and my mom tried to tell me that I couldn't see the woman's eyes.
> But I clearly could.
>