Track 3 #4 Personal Routine

I fully agree with David Greenburger in his radio broadcast about the personal routines of the elderly. Elderly people are extremely habitual, they require consistency, and I believe it helps them to feel safe. Just like when we are children and need a routine, and the comfort of knowing what to expect, we revert back to that same need as elder adults. Although routine is comfortable for people of all ages I have particularly noticed that some elderly people cannot function with out their normal routine. As for my generation of grandparents I think they need this routine because it is a duplication of the simple life they led. In this day and age our lives are far from simple, but my grandparents led simple lives, no computers, no cell phones, no crazy schedules and hectic lives. They worked, made money, and cared for their families. In my experience elderly people today need the simple things in life to be habitual or they feel lost, and confused at times scared. Putting an elderly person in a nursing home completely destroys everything they have grown to know and trust. Mr. Greenburger states that the experience of entering a nursing home is like being on a bus ride and never getting off, how true I believe this analogy to be. So many times these elderly people decline as soon as they enter, they don’t know how to deal with the change, as it is so different from the home they have always known.