Growing older certainly has its advantages — I am but four months from Medicare and can’t wait to dramatically reduce my healthcare insurance costs. But there are other things that make life more complicated as I get older. For the past two months I have been dealing with my 92-year old mother’s health and care issues. She was living alone and getting around her three story house pretty well. We installed a lift for her to go up/down the steps, a lifting chair to help her get up from her TV watching position and have a person come in once a week to take her out, get her groceries, etc.
All was okay until she started falling, which climaxed with her breaking her wrist and a vertebra in her back. After these issues were repaired, she started living in an assisted living location where she receives physical therapy to get her moving properly again.