🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, bob morin wrote:

>
> I think there is a very strong desire by older people to be attracted and
> attracted by others as we age.  However we live in a society in the US
> which is youth oriented so older people feel more inadequate, often holding
> these feelings to themselves.  Older people have strong need for intimate
> relationships but our culture tends not to recognise this. From life...

Would that it were so.  Though in many ways aging is a great homogenizer,
it isn't always so.  One encounters nonogenarians who indeed have strong
affiliative needs--and even get off on touching.  But there are those who
turn inwards, for whom the hurly burly of interraction is indeed over.


> people.  People in Universities have a great advantage as they have close
> contact with younger people.
>
You  are maybe an academic?   I'm not, but though it seems that
universities provide an avenue for contact between  people of different
generations, that also exists outside of academia.  Its just that
sometimes one has to choose between the physical and social supports of
the senior community residence on one hand and the  vitallity of the
intergenerational world on the other.  Hard choice for some.



George