I want to live to be 90. Ending up on life-prolonging machines. Living in a nursing home. I loved the patients. But there is definitely over-medication in some homes.
Memories sometimes fail around the conference table, provoking mostly chuckles.
They greet many setbacks with humor, which they say is one key to aging well. I don't tell everyone when I am not feeling really good. And that mind-set, they say, makes all the difference. Life is God's gift, a privilege. If something terrible happens, if someone passes away, you don't keep thinking about it.