{"id":500,"date":"2013-07-07T23:26:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wolfmaier.se\/wolfie217\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-07-07T23:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:26:33","slug":"im-going-to-miss-the-old-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wolfmaier.se\/wolfie217\/2013\/07\/07\/im-going-to-miss-the-old-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m going to miss the old folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you know we are moving soon. There are many things I\u2019m going to miss leaving Blackebergs G\u00e5rdsv\u00e4g, most of which I have thought about for a while now.<\/p>\n

Today as I was walking over to our storage (it\u2019s two houses down the road), I heard an old woman sing. I heard another old woman laugh. I heard one old man call for his caretakers and one doing (very loud) small talk with a relative (I suppose, I didn\u2019t hear the other person, it might even have been on the phone).<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t hear was the regular moaning and screaming for help that we also hear from time to time. Living here has given me a window into the horrors of being old and dement. Hearing old people scream because they don\u2019t recognise the people that try to help them is heart breaking. Why I didn\u2019t hear this on my walk this morning I don\u2019t know, maybe the warm weather also makes the old people happy.<\/p>\n

Now that I have been at home with our daughter I have seen more of the old people. During the day some of them are taken out for a walk or a roll. (Most of them are in wheelchairs). Some of them really enjoyed talking to us. Others are just sitting outside in the garden, saying hi and looking happy as we reply.<\/p>\n

It has been special living next to this huge house full with old people during last period in life. I heard from one of the staff that most of them living there only live there a few months or less before they die. That is how it is in a home for people that need care at the end of their life.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the house behind our house and on the right of Susanna.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll miss you. Not like your relatives will, but as a stranger who you smiled at and whose daughter you made laugh.<\/p>\n

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