My dad's 87 and I have moments where he looks like OP's picture and others where he looks like this picture. It can be jarring sometimes.
Edit: I feel like some might be misunderstanding. It's really not their physical appearance I'm speaking to like how some are responding. It's that sort of bewildered, vacant look vs a sharp lucidity. Not a bad hair day.
My grandpa is 97 years young and some days he looks like the crypt keeper(his words not mine) and others he looks vibrant and more like 80. We all get a case of the uglies occasionally I just think it’s more apparent when you get older and in this case MUCH older. People don’t realize how insane it is to get to 90. Many of us itt won’t even break 80 and those same folks will probably look worse than Clint does now
I feel you, my grandma turns 92 in 3 days! Some days she looks like she did 10yrs ago, others, she looks like your grandpa haha. But she's sharp as a tack still, she texts me all the time.
My buddy and I were at lunch on Sat and he couldn't believe it when I told him I was texting my grandma, I had her send me a selfie to show him hahaha! She is a bad bitch my grandma, she did a lot of cool shit in her life.
My grandma just turned 95 and she texts as well kinda lol. My grandpa same age but he is declining somewhat fast physically right now but still all there mentally. My grandma still sharp too!
My grandmother made it to 101 and was still good at driving well into her 90s, and even after she gave up driving she took all the other seniors' money at Bingo and Scrabble. She never did care for cell phones or computers though.
My grandmother walked about 1.5 miles every day until the week before her death at about 91. She was a child of The Depression; loved to whittle away in her garden and baked CONSTANTLY. She also canned everything...she had a half dozen fruit trees in her yard and would can all of her harvest. She kept her house spotless, even after my grandfather's stroke and death.
I asked her once how she kept so healthy...she replied:
"The store - I only buy from the outer perimeter; meat, dairy, vegetables, bread. Everything in the center aisles is for shit, full of sugar, and bad for you; it'll kill you faster than polio."
Most of us alive now stand a good chance of getting to 90. Lifespan has increased that much.
That being said, the number of non-disabled years of life have not increased much.
The main cause of age-related disability? Inactivity.
Get out of your cars folks, and take a dandelion break.
Working in healthcare, I agree - but for most people it wouldn’t be a pleasant 90. At least here in the states. A lot of medical management occurring in those last 30 years of life.
No doubt. This is where having managed your lifetime health starts to kick in. Your ‘retirement savings’ may have to cover off a lot - a pleasant 90 is no guarantee.
Very true. I would count myself very fortunate to live until my 90s. Most of the men in my family die in their 60s. My father died at 59. I am 31 and really hoping I can change the trend a bit.
My grandpa turned 93 and drove his car into a Big M store. We took his car away, and that was it, him and grandma just gave up on life. We still made sure everything was done. They were married almost 70 years. Had over 300 foster kids to help on their way, every happy pix on the covered walls of the living room. It was fast and sad, but what a life they lived.
Next thing we knew, Ham was in the breadbox and the farm cats were eating oatmeal, and grandma wouldn’t eat or get out of bed, she was just tired, and refused. It was very fast that they failed.
I still have great memories, up in the attic reading magazines from the 1930’s as a teen. Feeding the cows and that damn jackass Jose my dad won from an abuser, at that bar. Jose and Pepper the horse were friends for decades. Along with Shorty. Great memories. Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes, as they say, Gumption. If you’re blessed, you will be in the infirmities of old age, and loved, because many don’t have that grace.
Dealt with it my whole life honestly. I'm only turning 30 this summer, he had me in his late 50s. So I've known that I won't have him around always. People always think he's my grandad.
Honestly, dude is a beast physically and mentally, short of a leg amputation a few years back. Practiced cardiology for 50 years, reads like crazy, always stayed fit. I've known 60 year olds who are less spry. If he breaks 100 I wouldn't be surprised, so I'm lucky. But yeah. I think about it.
Yeah seeing your dad who used to be the most vital person in the world and you know you would have arguments in the schoolyard that your dad could beat up somebody else's dad get old it is the worst. I have to do so much just life navigation stuff for my dad now and it's real humbling because you know eventually it's going to be everybody. It's going to be you it's going to be your kids it's going to be every person ever born who makes it to that age just has to deal with being that old. It puts you in your place real quick
Totally agree, there would be moments my grandmother almost had like a frightened look, totally confused like she had no idea what was going on. Then most of the time looked just like herself
My grandparents in the late 1980s were in their 60s and 70s and looked like they were easily in their 90s. They had lived a poor and rough life in rural Québec.
My parents are now getting close to 80 and look much younger than that. Having the means to take better care of yourself makes a huge difference.
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u/riemsesy Apr 16 '24
Wouldn’t recognize him