I was just reading this article: Age and experience
And the following response caught my eye:
I am 80 and find life awful. Nobody seems to care about us wrinklies. We can't go out after 5pm because of druggies and dealers and drunks. Children by day even push you off the pavement. We have less and less money because we saved and now have to use our savings. What do we do in the future when there are no homes you can trust or afford. Carers are expensive and not always trustworthy. If you have no relatives you get more and more depressed and worried. I don't understand pressing buttons when phoning nor can I hear a mechanical voice. How do you get your shopping?
The tiddly buses are a struggle to get on or off. I tried learning about computers at Age Concern but it has made me more stressful. Doctors don't see you unless you contact them and then you can't get through in the am and when you don't feel well it makes you worse! I can't get to church and have asked three vicars if I could see them as I am so frightened of dying and also would like Communion once a month. They haven't bothered.
Barbara Duncan, Northwich England
That makes me feel awful. The poor soul.
I realise we don't have the full picture here, but I bet she isn't alone in her frustration.
That's one reason I'm pleased about this, though obviously the majority of lonely struggling old ladies aren't going to be ex-forces.
1 comments:
I've got a sneaking suspicion that Barbara Duncan may be taking people for a ride. Think about it - she can't use a touch tone phone, but she can get online, register as a BBC community member and write two paragraphs of perfectly typed English? Plus, the phase 'you can't get through in the am' is a bit 'yoof' - I don't think my parents would say that, and they're in their early 60s.
V. sad if it is her, and I have no doubt that there are people who feel like this, but 'Barbara' may be trying to fool us.
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