Elderly Care Quotes

“I love you but I got to love me more.”
― Peggi Speers, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.”
― Atul Gawande

“It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The elderly need love just like the children do.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.”
― Rose in The Inspired Caregiver

“Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.”
― Nancy L. Kriseman, The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

“You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is extremely disturbing to live in a society that sees older people as a burden rather than rich experiences to benefit from and build upon. Older people can act as the memory that can help us make sense of what was, what is, and what could and should be. I see that in the U.S. older people are not only made invisible in a culture obsessed with youth and superficial physical appearances, but often their insights, experiences, and perspectives are dismissed as ‘nostalgic’ or as outright ‘ignorant’ using the ‘generational gap’ as a pretext.”
― Louis Yako

“May you live to be as old as 120 years old.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Blessed are the elderly men and women.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The Elder you get...
The more you realize how much your parents did for you!”
― Aleen Lusna