#old-age — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #old-age, aggregated by home.social.
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Does anyone else have to save photos like this as reminders of what "safe place" you've put something??? 🤣
To be fair, this is on a shelf above my eye line!
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The cane taps the floor,
a steady drum of patience—
age keeps its own beat.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage -
Sign of ageing: seeing a headline about "Phoebe Gates" and assuming it's a typo for "Phoebe Cates".
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JASON: I go — a father once; now childless.
MEDEA: You grieve too soon. Old age is coming.
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: στείχω, δισσῶν γ᾽ ἄμορος τέκνων.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔπω θρηνεῖς: μένε καὶ γῆρας.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1395ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85377/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #bitterness #childlessness #grief #growingold #lamentation #loss #mourning #oldage #sorrow
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Morning tea grows cold,
the sun climbs without hurry—
so do I these days.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage -
Top DIY renovation tip: Never buy the 35 kg cement bags, even if it works out a few cents less per bag. Lifting 25 kg bags around causes enough back pain.
Fun fact: In India the standard bag is 50 kg. I assume they have much stronger backs.
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A quotation from Francis Bacon
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
Essay (1625 ed.), “Of Youth and Age”More about this quote: wist.info/bacon-francis/85350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #francisbacon #compromise #decline #henoed #maturity #mediocrity #oldage #slowingdown
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Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden. -
#Animals unable to #smell, #see, or #hear their food will sooner or later #starve.
However, researchers have now discovered using #Tyto #alba that #owls #retain their most important sense, #hearing, well into #oldage. According to the authors, owls are capable of #regenerating lost hair cells in the inner ear.© #StefanFWirth, 2026, Berlin
Reference
B. Krumm et al (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1584#Photo:
Tyto alba; Wales. 2016, author Alun Williams333, licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de -
A quotation from Elizabeth Bear
We claim the dignity of age, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.
Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 4 [Bijou] (2010)More about this quote: wist.info/bear-elizabeth/85244…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethbear #age #dignity #disability #gettingold #growingold #mortality #oldage #seniority
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A quotation from Elizabeth Bear
Age had not yet defeated her on all fronts, though it was a war of attrition she knew she was fated to lose.
Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 3 (2010)More about this quote: wist.info/bear-elizabeth/85135…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethbear #age #gettingold #growingold #humancondition #mortality #oldage
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He sits on the swing,
each creak a note of content—
the world moves slowly. -
Rain
Soft rain on her skin,
reminding her she’s alive—
every drop a grace. -
Since I'm not at #emfcamp, I'm doing some empathy hacking:
Experimenting with #CircuitPy on a #Seeed #RP2040, building a webpage<-->Python bridge for a future music project.
Finger for scale.
And magnifying glass to check the pins on the I2C OLED in the background!
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CW: despair, self harm, non-competent
Advanced Care Plan (aka Advanced Care Directive)
How about if you're in a locked ward and medicated to stop violent behaviour and you 're saying things like, "My life is over", "You don't want to know" in reply to "How are you?", and 'I can't find anything to kill myself with in here"?
Want yourself resuscitated/CPR or to have life extending treatments in such a situation?
#LockedWard #AdvancedCare #OldAge #SevereInjury #Dementia #Alzhiemers
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I'm seeing Linus Torvalds support for AI as a possible sign of cognitive impairment.
Even if so it might AIUI take another 20 years before his functioning is clearly inadequate.
But it's something worth considering about every aging human. And with old age beginning at 60 Linus is on the edge of that now.
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The night feels longer,
but the stars seem closer now—
he talks to their light. -
For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #gettingold #goodlife #growingold #livingwell #oldage #perspective #pleasure
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Doing an advanced care plan / advanced care directive?
What's your thinking around resuscitation / major surgery after you're treated as incompetent / in a locked environment without free exit?
#OldAge #EndOfLife #DoNotResuscitate #DNR #Wills #Competency #Disability #Illness #Dementia #TBI #Stroke
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Her stories grow short,
but the silence that follows
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Don’t abandon old friends,
because newer ones are not their equals.
New friends are like new wine;
when wine ages,
you will drink it with good cheer.
[Μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς φίλον ἀρχαῖον,
ὁ γὰρ πρόσφατος οὐκ ἔστιν ἔφισος αὐτῷ·
οἶνος νέος φίλος νέος·
ἐὰν παλαιωθῇ, μετ᾽ εὐφροσύνης πίεσαι αὐτόν.]The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 9:10 (Sir 9:10) [tr. CEB (2011)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84860/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #apocrypha #sirach #ecclesiasticus #aging #friends #friendship #loyalty #maturity #oldage #wine
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He forgets the names,
but remembers the kindness—
love never needs words. -
Autumn leaves whisper,
as if telling old secrets—
the wind understands. -
The mirror grows kind,
reflecting not just the face—
but the life within.
