what do elderly persons enjoy the most when they are at the beach?

Question

how about the disabled persons? how do they spend they stay? please consider short-term and long-term vacations.

Answer 1

What makes you think that elderly or disabled persons like something different than young or able-bodied persons? They're at the beach - and everybody likes the sand and the wind and the water and the birds and everything else!

Answer 2

The last beach I visited was while on a vacation in Mexico. I'm not considered elderly though. I enjoyed walking the beach, getting some sun, snorkeling and boating. I had an all inclusive package and that worked out great for us. I also loved all the free drinks while on the beach!

Answer 3

At 59 I do not consider myself elderly and am a young 59 at that. At the beach I enjoy sitting in my beach chair under the umbrella and napping. The sound of the gulls and water and people's voices is so relaxing. I get up and take a walk or get cooled off in the water, then go back to my chair for some more glorious rest.

Answer 4

I am not elderly but will respond anyway. (I'm only 67-HA)

I do pretty much what I have always done at the beach. Swim, body surf, dig in the sand, read, sleep, sunbathe, eat, people-watch...

I don't spend much time laying around anymore though. I'd rather board a cruise ship or fly to an exotic place or hop a train. I love to fire up ole Skippy (that's my 1997 Pontiac Sunfire) and hit the road - not knowing or caring where I'm going or how long I'll be gone.

Spending a lot of time laying around on a beach seems like a waste of time at my age.

Answer 5

I've always enjoyed the ocean since I was a child. And now
that I am 64 and disabled, I treasure my visits even more. I
don't know how many I have left, you see. As I have an over
enlarged heart that has been weakening more. I haven't been
over there for a 'beach fix' in two years. And I think I'm about
overdue.
Now when we are able to go, we go to a place that makes
it more convenient for disabled persons. There is a huge
parking lot, with a restaurant on one side, and inside the
area are convenient rest rooms. There are a few picnic
tables and that provides seating on a grassy lawn with a full
view of the ocean and sandy beaches below. There are
stairs down to the beach, for normal walkers and a cement
path along the parking lot for those with scooters. Everything
in one location for everyone.
I enjoy watching the tide go in and out. And watching the
seagulls dip down for food people may toss to them. Me
being one. We buy a loaf of bread or take some with us, just
to do that. Sometimes pidgeons take part as well, looking for
a hand out too.
Often there are kite flyers who attract attention with their
new and unusual designed kites. There are always those
with their dogs who are tossed frisbees' and balls to
chase. And the families with their children and building sand
castles. Then there are the strollers who look for things at
the waters' edge. It's always a landscape of entertainment.
No matter in which direction you look.
Inhaling that fresh salt air is so envigorating and cleansing.
I always leave feeling so much healthier than when I arrived.
We always take a lunch with us to eat at one of the picnic
tables while watching the entertainment around us and eating
in the fresh open air. Others' do that as well. In fact our last
visit, a couple had a lavish meal set out on a table cloth, and
they were drinking goblets of wine as they carried on a friend-
ly conversation, and dressed up as if they were going some-
where other than the beach.
We used to stop at a candy store for buying caramel corn,
and taffy, as no trip was concluded until we did. Now it's not
the priority it was, since I have to watch my sugar intake now.
But we do try to stop for at least a bag of caramel corn that
hubby and I share of course. And I don't feel near as guilty LOL.
So gone are the days of browsing in beachfront boutique
shops and tourist traps, and walking on the beach for me. I
have done all of that over my lifetime. But life just isn't fair, if
I can't at least see the ocean, white caps and all, and enhale
that wonderful fresh ocean breeze. Then I feel everything is
right with the world. And I can go home a happy woman.

Answer 6

Oooooh, What would I like at the beach?
Well, I think laying in a comfy beach
lounger with an umbrella over me.
And especially that nice young man
with the tan body and beautiful eyes,
to run get me Mai Tais from time to time.
Oh, then the lobster dinner after I'm
roasted good.

Answer 7

the variety of convenience is lots smaller for some elderly. fairly the frail. it must be too heat or too chilly plus the breeze may well be a worry besides. Be practice with greater advantageous clothing purely in case. sunscreen needless to say. hat or different head masking & sunlight hues for the glare. additionally the logistics of the lavatory is of common difficulty. If she is on many meds, her eyes may well be very delicate. i might additionally think of that it would be purely a short stay if she is amazingly elderly & that frail. My mom enjoyed going for rides to the coastline & short walks on the boardwalk or pier up till her mid 80s. yet after that component, she favorite purely the drives to look from the automobile. If she is able to transforming into the determination to determination, i might ask her if she did desire to bypass or not. Do savor a while along with your mom.

Answer 8

Well, I'm 65 - and travel every year to the Caribbean islands. I do what most people do at the beach - I swim, snorkle, lay out in my beach chair, read and make sand castles! lol

I also go on hikes through rain forests; tour the local villages, shop, eat..you name.

You'll find that unless illness prevents, older people do the same things younger people. On my last trip in late August there were wheelchair users who were accommodated by the tour operators same as everybody else.

Answer 9

What is disabled? My mother-in-law has been blind for nearly 20 years. She has gone on an African safari, been to Australia, and until recently traveled from CA to the east coast every year to visit family. She turns 99 this year. I have a friend who has been in a chair for more than half of his life, and he keeps up with his two rowdy little boys. I have a cousin who wears a prosthesis from her knee down. She water skis better than I do. When we were kids, we used to send her ahead to bat down the nettles. There was no getting rid of the "little kid" as she had no trouble keeping up with us, whatever we did. I have a poster on my office wall for inspiration. It is a picture of Erik Weihenmayer who climbed Mt. Everest--blind. The answer to your question depends a lot on the disability and on the mental condition of the person who deals with it.

Answer 10

I love looking at the water.....especially sun rises or sun sets....I love watching the babies....I'm just in awe of the whole thing.....ocean view...water...sand castles....feeling the warmth of the sun........quiet....hearing the sounds of the water crashing on the beach...birds....maybe even small sail boats....dolphins.....

I'm not impressed with speedos on old guys with black socks and dress shoes and gold medellions......don't like seeing young girls with thongs and everything else hanging out. Or fat women trying to squeeze into a 2 piece.

Personally.....I'm there for the NATURE.....not the people. Relaxation....peace and quiet. Not there to PARTY......not there for the night life.....there to RELAX and get away from it all. I don't want to be on a beach thats like being on the freeway in grid lock. I don't want that as a retired person...or also as young family...being next to, the next "girls gone wild video". Sorry if there are those who can't get that....but that's whats comfortable for me. A sexy senior or a SEXY NEW MOM ISN'T THE SAME. I want to be where I am comfortable. New parents are used to screaming kids and dirty diapers and bottles and breast feeding. Elderly are used to depends and hourly checks for diabedes and close rest rooms and flabby skin and ben-gay ..young kids are used to loud music and who is he when they wake up and puke and the smell of beer.....