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Here’s the thing …I have a progressive disability and I always have, so adapting to ability changes is second nature to me. I’m a retired 53 year-old social worker and writer, which led me to blend my skills together and develop this portal website. I try to provide helpful content and even better products. The problem is that I don’t sell anything anyone ‘wants’ but rather, I sell products people ‘need’. No one after all aspires to use a walker, dress with gadgets, or wear depends. No one wants to admit their abilities are declining. However, I can attest from first hand experience that these handy-gadgets and adaptable aids are the very things that would enable seniors to remain independent and retain a level of dignity, whether they are aging at home or anywhere else.
Life would be so much easier if people (seniors or whomever) could admit to their ability deficits, take the time to discover the aids that exist to help them, and simply use them. Instead, too many people struggle along and fall, or they stop going out altogether.
There is something fundamental missing in the zoomer and boomer business focus websites splashed across the web. It’s not that there is a lack of ability enhancing products available to help seniors; it’s the lack of celebrating that they actually exist.
I wish we could learn to accept our natural decline of abilities without having it lessen our self-perception or self-esteem. It’s as simple as realizing we will never learn to swim unless we enter the water.