Anonymous Survey Responses: What is the most surprising thing to you about aging?

Anonymous Survey Responses: What is the most surprising thing to you about aging?

Answers provided by IL and AL Residents

1. Health issues

2. Maybe I haven’t gotten old enough to know yet

3. When things are changed without our input or our input is ignored

4. Aches, pains, and always being cold … that starts at 80

5. The joy of being with people who are a little more seasoned than I, listening to their stories

6. I keep getting older and older

7. Overall aches and pains, but more than I expected

8. Not getting any younger

9. Nothing surprising, I have prepared for it all my life

10. People assuming I am hard of hearing and I am not, too much shouting

11. Not being able to remember things as well as I used to

12. Having to leave my home

13. Slowing down, not getting to go all the places I used to like vacations

14. Get up and go, so I got up and went. Freedom of being able to do whatever I want.

15. How kind everyone is, the workers are so good to us. They love and care about us!

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