Originally Posted by
bobwysiwyg
Geriatric? Yipes, that would get my knickers in a knot and I just turned 75.
I must admit certain events have made focus a bit more on my age which I generally ignore. Not too long ago there was some news item on TV where they made reference to TET (Vietnam War TET) being 50 years ago. I thought Yipes, maybe I am old.
To be honest, I was mostly upset about being reassigned from the family clinic to geriatric because the LPN I would have been assigned at the family clinic was really cute. And she spoke to me like a regular person.
There are some cute LPNs at the geriatric clinic, but they talk to patients in that cloying, almost condescending way that is almost but not quite precisely the opposite of how most of us would like to be addressed.
However my mom adored being doted on and catered to by aides, nurses and doctors. She was never offended by being treated like "an elderly".
Fortunately the nurses at the ortho clinic and ENT clinic where I'm being screened for cancer just talk with me like regular folks. I appreciate that.