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She's 101 and still travelling by plane? By the time my grandma reached 90 it was a Herculean struggle just to get her in and out of a taxi. Filing this one un

She's 101 and still travelling by plane? By the time my grandma reached 90 it was a Herculean struggle just to get her in and out of a taxi. Filing this one under "problems I'd love to have".

SirMaster 2y ago
I knew a guy once who was still skiing in Colorado past age 100... You can Google skiing past 100 and find multiple examples of people who make it this long.
croisillon 2y ago
i can certainly relate, my grandma died 32 y.o. to tuberculosis
Macha 2y ago
Different people face age related decline at different rates. My two grandmothers are in their 70s and 90s respectively. It's the one in her 70s who is increasingly limited in her capabilities. The one in her 90s on the other hand is broadly fine. The things she is not sufficient with are mostly things that women 70-40 years ago in my country were not expected to handle so she never learned to, rather than age related decline.
dghughes 2y ago
Yeah it is amazing to not only be mobile but coherent. I've seen people much younger (70s) not able to get around or even understand you or having trouble communicating. Some people here go into an old age home in their 50s. My own grandmother was dead by age 64 of a stroke, her husband (my grandfather) died age 52 of emphysema. My other grandparents were in an old age home by their 60s died at ages 85 and 92. My mom is 80 and pretty mobile buys groceries but has bad hearing but won't get hearing aids. My Dad died at age 78 of IPF a lung disease after a 20 year battle. Since my Dad died I'm amazed at elderly who walking around no glasses, no mobility issues. Then again some elderly I knew looked good but had many problems they just didn't complain of their ills, then one day their died in their sleep (a few did like that).
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Dying in your sleep of random suddenly fatal issues is considered a natural end though.
Aeolun 2y ago
Eh, my grandma is somewhere in her 90s and recently went to Spain (by airplane, a flight of some 4 hours). She does say the 14 hour flight to Japan sounds like too much though.

She's 101 and still travelling by plane? By the time my grandma reached 90 it was a Herculean struggle just to get her in and out of a taxi. Filing this one under "problems I'd love to have".

SirMaster 2y ago

I knew a guy once who was still skiing in Colorado past age 100... You can Google skiing past 100 and find multiple examples of people who make it this long.

croisillon 2y ago

i can certainly relate, my grandma died 32 y.o. to tuberculosis

Macha 2y ago

Different people face age related decline at different rates. My two grandmothers are in their 70s and 90s respectively. It's the one in her 70s who is increasingly limited in her capabilities. The one in her 90s on the other hand is broadly fine. The things she is not sufficient with are mostly things that women 70-40 years ago in my country were not expected to handle so she never learned to, rather than age related decline.

dghughes 2y ago

Yeah it is amazing to not only be mobile but coherent. I've seen people much younger (70s) not able to get around or even understand you or having trouble communicating. Some people here go into an old age home in their 50s. My own grandmother was dead by age 64 of a stroke, her husband (my grandfather) died age 52 of emphysema. My other grandparents were in an old age home by their 60s died at ages 85 and 92. My mom is 80 and pretty mobile buys groceries but has bad hearing but won't get hearing aids. My Dad died at age 78 of IPF a lung disease after a 20 year battle. Since my Dad died I'm amazed at elderly who walking around no glasses, no mobility issues. Then again some elderly I knew looked good but had many problems they just didn't complain of their ills, then one day their died in their sleep (a few did like that).

Aeolun 2y ago
Dying in your sleep of random suddenly fatal issues is considered a natural end though.

Aeolun 2y ago

Eh, my grandma is somewhere in her 90s and recently went to Spain (by airplane, a flight of some 4 hours). She does say the 14 hour flight to Japan sounds like too much though.