Dealing With The Losses Of Old Age Turning Them Around

Written by Judi Singleton


I have done in-home-care forrepparttar elderly for ten years now. Before that I was a family counselor. I talk to people everyday aboutrepparttar 140185 losses of growing older. The loss of working andrepparttar 140186 structure on has from working. The loss of income that we earn. The loss of meaning from life if we have built our lives around thinking we are our work. The loss of driving being able to transport oneself. The losses through health care issues, issues like vision and hearing. The loss of old time friends and loved ones. It seems to me all those things perhaps are harder thanrepparttar 140187 loss of one's life. We need to learn to deal with loss. This kind of loss is inevitable. But maybe we can turnrepparttar 140188 loss around like we turn knowing what we don't want into what we do want. A celebration of what growing older means instead of what we are going to lose. So let's take a look at each one of these issues one by one. Loss of work: First and formost we are notrepparttar 140189 work we do. There is lots of kinds of work in God's world. Perhaps now we are retiring. This can give usrepparttar 140190 opportunity to re-invent ourselves. We perhaps can start a new business. Maybe be consultants as we have so much experience. Perhaps take a hobby and turn it into a full time profession. I have thought personally that retiring from full time outside work would give me time to write which is my passion. I also could develop my writing into a profession that was not limited torepparttar 140191 kind of physical work I do in caregiving.

Dealing With Loss As One Grows Older

Written by Judi Singleton


I have done in-home-care forrepparttar elderly for ten years now. Before that I was a family counselor. I talk to people everyday aboutrepparttar 140184 losses of growing older. The loss of working andrepparttar 140185 structure on has from working. The loss of income that we earn. The loss of meaning from life if we have built our lives around thinking we are our work. The loss of driving being able to transport oneself. The losses through health care issues, issues like vision and hearing. The loss of old time friends and loved ones. It seems to me all those things perhaps are harder thanrepparttar 140186 loss of one's life. We need to learn to deal with loss. This kind of loss is inevitable. But maybe we can turnrepparttar 140187 loss around like we turn knowing what we don't want into what we do want. A celebration of what growing older means instead of what we are going to lose. So let's take a look at each one of these issues one by one. Loss of work: First and formost we are notrepparttar 140188 work we do. There is lots of kinds of work in God's world. Perhaps now we are retiring. This can give usrepparttar 140189 opportunity to re-invent ourselves. We perhaps can start a new business. Maybe be consultants as we have so much experience. Perhaps take a hobby and turn it into a full time profession. I have thought personally that retiring from full time outside work would give me time to write which is my passion. I also could develop my writing into a profession that was not limited torepparttar 140190 kind of physical work I do in caregiving.

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