You probably can't say that I'm in the middle of life anymore, but I'm trudging along in the fall of my age.
I have not been and am not healthy but live with several diagnoses, lives in sheltered accommodation and depends on a walker to get around and is 78 år.
Over the years, on many occasions with my increasing age and how immobile I have become, I have had the feeling that people are not listening to what I say. She is old and sick = demented, bad memory etc. Somehow age discrimination has crept into my existence. You talk loudly, slowly and clearly, as well as based on impaired hearing. It would be better if the elderly person could ask someone to speak louder and/or inform them that their hearing is not so good.
When visiting a doctor, the doctor sits and stares at the computer screen, why i wonder, and asks questions from the screen without any eye contact with the patient. In the name of honesty, there are those who start by greeting the patient and take their time without a computer screen, but it is the exception that proves the rule. It gives the patient (jag) a feeling that one is not articulate to ask questions to, even though the patient is the one who has all the facts about himself. It is assumed before the patient has opened his mouth that what is on the screen is what applies. But soon they have eye contact with some "y...vla" AI, so what the hell is needed then the patients to ... they become a necessary evil, so it is possible to keep healthcare afloat.
Now I'm not going to generalize too much, for discussions with young people, so elders are not very good at respecting their knowledge, all times without "young and stupid" generalizing wildly.
Age discrimination occurs for both young and old, that's probably what you call "middle age", who is the culprit in this drama. In the past, you had generational housing and with hindsight, then respect was created between the residents/family.
2023-10-10 Pongo Lindblom
Publ. Oskarshamns-News 2023-10-10