What is the role of the American elderly?

Question

Please help me with my homework, I'm mexican and I'm taking an American Culture class.

This is to understand how Americans feel about being old, and what they plan to do with their lives when they are old. It will be awesome if you write your age!!!

Thank you all!!!!!


Please answer the following
1.What do you hope to do when you retire?
2.Where do you plan to live?
3.Would you move in with your children?under what conditions?
4.What do you think life will be like when you are 65 or older?
5.Are you afraid of growing old? Are you looking forward to growing old?

THX THX THX!!!

Answer 1

What a cool project! I will be happy to help.

I am a 27-year-old woman in Colorado, by the way.

1. When I retire, I hope to hang around the house and watch game shows, and I will also enjoy cooking things and possibly taking care of any grandchildren I may have. I am looking forward to bingo night too. I would say I want to travel, but I honestly want to do that when I'm a bit younger than that.
2. I wouldn't mind still living in Colorado, but my future husband is bent on living by the ocean. That sounds pretty nice to me, too, so I'll probably live on a beach somewhere.
3. I WOULD NOT move in with my children, unless there was a dire situation, financial or otherwise, that made me have to. I don't think it is a good idea, especially if your child is married and has a family, because I think it stifles the child's relationship with his/her spouse and makes the family dynamic a little off. However, my grandma did use to live with us, and I loved her so much...
4. We'd better have those flying cars they've been promising us!! LOL. I think it will be roughly the same, people-wise, with some changes to the fashion, music, and prices of stuff.
5. I am not afriad of growing old, but I am afraid of losing loved ones who are older than I am, such as my mom. Unfortunately, she probably won't be around anymore when I'm old, and I will miss her terribly. I'm also really worried I'm going to outlive my future husband, and then I will be without him too. Other than that, I feel like age is nothing but a number.

Happy thoughts!!!

Answer 2

I'm 19.

1.What do you hope to do when you retire? I hope to have a home where my grandchildren and children can visit me. I also plan to read and travel a lot.
2.Where do you plan to live? Probably near an ocean or a lake.
3.Would you move in with your children?under what conditions? If I became senile and unable to take care of myself, yes. I plan to take my own parents into my home if they need to.
4.What do you think life will be like when you are 65 or older? I hope I will be wise and look back on my life and be happy.
5.Are you afraid of growing old? Are you looking forward to growing old? I am afraid of growing old. I enjoy my youth, and in America, the elderly are not seen as wise, but rather feeble and slowly becoming senile. Americans do not want to be old, as can be seen by our obsession with plastic & cosmetic surgery, anti-aging products and an emphasis on youth and vitality.

Answer 3

1.What do you hope to do when you retire? Travel the world and spend time with my children and grandchildren
2.Where do you plan to live? In a warm place
3.Would you move in with your children?under what conditions? I would never want to move in with my children. I rather go to a nursing home.Many people are like that. It would cause too many problems with my children. I would only live with them if there was no other alternative.
4.What do you think life will be like when you are 65 or older? The same as it is for me now except my hips won't move as well as they used to and I may have to start botox injections
5.Are you afraid of growing old? Are you looking forward to growing old? I'm not afraid of growing old at all. I'm not looking forward to it because its going to happen anyway regardless of if I wait for it or not