Hyndman High School
Hyndman, Pennsylvania
Teacher: Janet Phillips

 

 

 

To Help The Elderly Enjoy Life

By Nathan Satzer

Junior

 

           

Many elderly people live very lonely and boring lives.  I have an elderly  home next door to me.  My goal is to help the elderly to live a safer life.   The sidewalks, railings, and stairways are very unsafe and It would be nice to see new materials put in.  I am going to call the town council to see if they could help provide money to put in new materials.   An elderly women broke her hip and could not walk for weeks. Her legs gave out and she fell down the steep stairway.  Elderly people with bad health I think should be on the bottom floor so they would not have to worry about walking up steps. 

           

My sister and I have been taking the elder lies garbage out to dumpsters so they do not have to walk and so it does not pile up in their homes. The garbage is a good way also to see how they are doing and make shore everything in their home is functioning all right.  I enjoy spending time hearing their stories at the senior citizen center.

           

In the winter months I shovel the elderly peoples cars out if they can drive and the porches off so they do not fall when they’re getting the morning paper. My neighbor and I plow all the walk ways and the road where they park their cars.  They always offer us money, but we can never accept because they do not have any to spare for me helping them.  I enjoy the look of thanks that comes on their face when I am done.

           

This summer the building is going to put street lights out in front of the building so the elderly fell safer.  Cumberland Electric is going to provide new air conditioners and lights for each apartment.  I would like to put in railings in the stairways and new sidewalks leading to the parking lot.   

           

On Christmas and other holidays most elderly people do not have any family to visit them.  I take some elderly people up to the Senior Citizen Center where they can eat and socialize with other elderly people.  My family always has a lot to eat, so I take plates of food over to the elderly people that do not enjoy going to the Senior Citizen Center. I invited many of them to the Christmas Tea at our school for the elderly. 

           

Many elderly people have to buy their groccers at a local store where the prices are too expensive.  They sometimes have to go without as much food as they should because they have to buy medicine and the rest goes for food.  When my parents and I go to the market, we will get grocery lists from them so they have enough money for medicine and any of their needs.  There is a bus that is taking they to the market once a week and I think this will help them financially.

           

I know they enjoy being taken places because they have to sit at home every day. An elderly women tells me the same story about her foot doctor taking her out to eat and to a soccer game every time I go over to her house.  I think if there were a bus that would take them to Wal-mart or restaurants to eat would really make them happy.            

           

I have called a local man with a bus and he has been taking some elderly people to his church. They are so happy just for something as little as giving them a ride to church. I think the world should be more like them for being happy what you have and not always wanting more.

           

Every day I am going and pick their mail up and read it to them.  They enjoy when people read the newspaper to them.  I know they just enjoy the company of not being alone.  My mother is going to start helping them with their bills and health care information.  My mother feels they could get more money if they would apply.  I think someone should be paid to help them with their bills and finances. 

           

I feel elderly people were always playing bingo or going to church, but now I have release they are great people to be around.   I think by helping the elderly people next door to me has help me feel good about my self and I know I will always have someone to talk to.

                                                                                   

Answers To Questions Regarding Required Reading

 

Q1-      Society invests in marriage in the USA and in manus by helping people who just got married with finances and support.

 

Q2-      First couple has been married once for 17 years.  They feel do not let little disagreements cause a major argument.

           

Second couple has been married once for 51 years.  In marriage there are a lot of hard times, but work through them together.

             

Third couple has been married once for 44 years.  With love you can work anything out.

 

Fourth couple has each been married twice the first marriage lasted 9 years and they have been married for 2 years.  Do not get married too early in life because you may not be ready for marriage.

           

Fifth couple has been married once for 20 years.  Do not always look for a person beautiful on the outside. Look for a person beautiful in the inside.

           

Sixth couple has been married once for 5 years.  When you get married there are a lot of responsibilities.

 

Seventh couple has been marred once for 13 years.  Make shore to marry a good wife because she will help you in every problem you have.

 

Eighth couple has been married once for 6 months.  Marriage is the best part of life if it is with some you really love.

           

Ninth couple has been married once for 28 years.  Always put your family first in life.

           

Tenth couple has been married once for 73 years.  Even when your spouse dies you still have your family.

 

Q3-      Richard Eckersley, feels our collective goal is the belief that life should be (and is) getting better healthier, wealthier happier, more satisfying, and more interesting.

 

Q4-      A worthy goal for my community is to help put in better railings and side-walls in at a local senior citizen nursing home.

 

Q5-      I fell the story about the toy doll is wonderful because many children have no mother or father and it is great they can have a mother or father in something so little as a doll. This may help children to have a good friend in their hard and lonely life.

 

Q6-      The fact the USA is a democracy make lawyers particularly helpful, according to Kathleen Sullivan feels lawyers help, like other intermediaries-between individuals and the state-protect us from the danger of tyranny of the majority.  They create a form of public responsibility and accountability that would that would not happen happen in an untrammeled democracy... Americans are decentralized.  

 

Q7-      Ms. Sullivan claims bad practices can be changed by punitive damages for example if a person likes their coffee warm so they can drink it and another person may like their coffee boiling hot.  If you could not tell the work what you want and it is just set at a regular temperature the costumer may become mad and the business will lose money. 

 

Q8-      Society will benefit from the retirement of baby boomers. They are the healthiest and most educated generation in history, and it is likely that, rather than stay at home, a large number will start up their own businesses.  They may hire other retirees to work for them, thus establishing ‘gray businesses’ made up of older workers.  Years of experience and extensive business contacts will make older workers highly competitive.

 

Q9-      President Clinton’s anti-poverty program will make a real impact because 25% tax credit enabling companies investing in poor areas over five years of finance $100-worth of business for $75.  Next, a variety of institutions, such as America’s Private Investment Companies to provide public debt guarantees for private companies which invest equity in poor areas. There will be more help for the so-called- Community Development Financial Institutions a swarm of largely nonprofit organizations which have been partly financed by the government since 9194 and which provide cheap loans to the poor, usually for housing or starting a business.