Thanks all for suggestions. The lower light seems to illuminate the room OK. I guess I prefer filament lights as they seem to give a softer yellowish light, although new lights can simulate this. Although a better ladder may help there is so much at stake for my wife if I ever fell of any ladder. Be...

Albert, if I am still having to care for my husband when I get to your age, I think I will need carers to look after me as well!! Yes, that is my worry at 84. We have no children or near relatives so I keep my fingers crossed, (no arthritis in them so far :lol: ), that I will be able to carry on ca...

Irene_1509 wrote:71

Hello junior.

One problem I increasingly face is replacing light bulbs up at high level. As one gets on, climbing up step ladders with no one to steady them becomes risky. I prefer using the old type filament light bulbs. So on some of my house high level lamps I have fitted an extension using a lamp plug, about ...

jenny lucas wrote:Albert - I think you win the prize hands down!

O wonderful. I am quite surprised to see I am the oldest.
What is the prize?....a Zimmer frame?

I wonder how old the oldest carer here is?
I care for my wife and I am coming up to 84.

........"I don't have a care in the World."

With all the extended news coverage we get now on radio/TV
I cannot recall anything about how dementia is handled in the
poor developing countries.
Time for a program about this or did I miss it?

Who could stop them marrying? Surely no one in the early stages
of it.
Folk with Downs Syndrome do marry.

If two patients decided to get married how would that work?
Because neither would remember where the church was!

I log in to this forum and tick the 'remember me' box.
But it never does as I have to log in each day.