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This meme denotes the stereotype of centenarians, specifically Japanese centenarians. It not only touches on centenarians, but also diversity in ethnic background. It takes a stab at the diet choices of the Japanese culture, as well as the fact that many of them do live past 100 years old. The meme also touches on the fact that Japanese tend to live longer than other races. One may say that it touches on the poor diet skills of Americans or other races, saying that those elderly do not live as long for other health reasons.

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This article lists the top 12 "must have" products if you are an old person living alone. Many of these products are not necessarily only for the elderly, but implies that the elderly are not capable of living alone without the help of simple gadgets. Some of these gadgets include a nonslip shower mat, a smart vacuum cleaner, a cordless electric kettle, an electric can opener and the list continues. As said before these gadgets are not only for elderly use. The nonslip shower mat is commonly sold in most stores for people of all ages, not just for the risk of elderly falling. A smart vacuum can also be used my other people who are too busy or do not want to vacuum themselves. Same goes for all the other gadgets. The list is implies that these products are needed by all elderly because they are not capable of holding a heavy vacuum, or boil a kettle of water, or simply take a shower without falling.

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For many seniors, living independently is a life affirming challenge. It keeps them invigorated and stimulated. They love their home, value their privacy, and cherish their independence. If nothing else, living alone offers a sense of security, comfort and familiarity.

But living alone has its challenges. That's why we put together a list of the top selling "must have" products for elderly living alone in 2020. We talked to the leading specialists in aging, eldercare and geriatrics to decide on the products and then found the brands offering the best bang for your buck. All of these products have helped thousands live an easier, happier, safer and more independent life in the comfort of their own home.

12 Products For Elderly Living Alone

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As far as products for elderly living alone, perhaps none is more useful than grab bars. Getting up from the toilet alone, or in and out of the shower safely is a key to staying safely on your feet. We've displayed two types of grab bars here, one is a suction based grab bar and the other requires installment. Both are the best in their class. If you can we'd prefer the durability of the installed option, but not all situations allow for it. The one benefit of the suction grab bar is it can travel with you! Regardless, you'll be much better off with either solution.
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Falling sends more seniors to the hospital than anything and there's no bigger culprit than the bathroom. Falling when alone, with no one to help, magnifies the danger. The Original Gorilla bath mat is great because it sticks better to non-tiled surfaces than any other mat, has a great non-slip surface, avoids mold and is machine washable! Small price for a big impact!
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Forgetting a kettle on the stove top is an all too common cause of kitchen fires. A cordless electric kettle removes the risk altogether while increasing convenience and simplicity. We love the Mueller Ultra cordless electric kettle because it comes with a great non-slip handle, superior quality glass and is BPA free. It also comes with great reviews and is a top seller!
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Whether it's a matter of strength, coordination or arthritis, opening a can of tuna, soup or cat food can be become very difficult as we age. Getting an automated can opener can dramatically simplify the process and help avoid needless cuts and injuries. The Hamilton Beach Smooth Touch Can Opener has a 4.5 star rating on Amazon with over 8,400 reviews! Best price to quality ratio on the market!
Shop Hamilton Beach Can Opener Today! "
Perfect for older adults! Lets you see, hear and speak with anyone at your door - before letting them in. Also, great for family caregivers - receive mobile notifications anytime someone comes to your parent's door. Enhances security. Keeps unwanted visitors from ringing doorbell. Tracks professional caregiver arrival and departure times. Can also link to Amazon Alexa, so it can be used as an intercom - and remote door opener!
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Save your back and avoid stepping stools! Get things from the top shelf, the floor or behind furniture. Change a light bulb! We like the Extra Long 32 inch Reacher Grabber by Vive because it has added length and comes with super durable steel wiring and a lifetime warranty! It's the top selling reacher on the market!
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Make it easy for seniors to stay in touch. Being able to easily see and press telephone buttons is a huge bonus for the elderly. That's why we love the highly rated ClearSounds landline telephone. It has big over sized buttons, volume control, an easy to read key pad, hearing aid compatibility and one touch speed dial buttons with pictures for easy dialing!
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9. GreatCall Mobile Phones For Seniors

Having a cell phone allows you to stay in touch, order a cab, or call for help no matter where you are. But many smart phones are just poorly designed for older adults who place a premium on simplicity or suffer from poor vision, arthritis or compromised hearing. We love the Jitterbug options from GreatCall because whether you're looking for the simplicity of a flip phone or the features of a smart phone, both offer oversized buttons to allow for easy use and handling, voice typing, a long lasting battery and a bunch of really valuable senior safety apps.
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If seniors are going to live alone, they're going to have to be able to accomplish day to day tasks without the help of others. Opening a jar can be hard enough for the young and spry - for seniors with reduced strength or arthritis it can be nearly impossible. We like the EZ Off Jar Opener because it's simple to use, solid and doesn't require two hands. It's the highest rated jar opener with the best reviews we've come across.
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Showering shouldn't be a balancing act. Sit, shower and relax. A shower chair will allow those with limited mobility or fall risks to shower independently much longer. We like the #1 selling medical shower chair because it doesn't require any tools for assembly, has a removable back for extra support, and comes with lightweight, rust-proof aluminum for increased durability. It's wide legs offers increased stability to avoid tipping.
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Knowing what to do and when is a big part of living independently. This clock has it all. It has supersized fonts for easy reading. It clearly displays the day of the week, morning and night, time of day and day of the month and year. Not only that, it also comes with 3 alarms per day, which is great for wake-ups, meal and medication reminders. It also comes in white or yellow font color, depending on preference. We love the best selling SVINZ 3 Alarm clock because of its size, information and alarm clock features.
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12 "Must Have" Products For Elderly Living Alone 2023 - SeniorSafetyReviews.com

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For many seniors, living independently is a life affirming challenge. It keeps them invigorated and stimulated. They love their home, value their privacy, and cherish their independence. If nothing else, living alone offers a sense of security, comfort and familiarity. But living alone has its challenges.

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This article explains how ageism in Hollywood has changed over the years. It states that the "youth market" has been around since many elderly were in their youths. And today is no different, most roles in Hollywood are centered around ages 25-45 years old, with a drastically fewer roles for those 60-80 years old. Some shows or movies listed in the article are "Poms" and the "Kominsky Method" to name a couple. Although there are roles for older actors in Hollywood, it is hard to come across without decades of experience and star power.

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When someone asks if there's ageism in Hollywood, the not inaccurate default answer is, naturally, of course.

It's just common knowledge that movies and television have been primarily concerned with the lucrative "youth market" since most of today's senior citizens were, well, youths. SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, says that there are 87% fewer work opportunities for its members in the 60-to-80 age group than for actors aged 25 to 45. Around this time last year, the movie "Book Club" grossed a more than decent $69 million with an ensemble of actors in that 60 to 80 range, while many of its cast and creators complained of fighting off intense studio pressure to change their characters to women in their 40s.

Such examples go on and on, to no one's surprise. Yet a more nuanced world for older actors is also out there, at least for those with decades of star power or less flashy but undeniably solid working histories behind them.

Hollywood has identified seniors as a dependable enough moviegoing demographic to justify making feature films for it at a price, such as this spring's indie releases "Poms" (the Diane Keaton-led, cheerleading squad in a retirement community comedy) and "The Tomorrow Man" (in which troubled, aging singles John Lithgow and Blythe Danner start a tricky relationship). Last weekend "Late Night," which arguably boasts the finest performance of just-turned-60 Emma Thompson's impressive career as a TV host beleaguered by show business ageism, earned the second-highest per screen average of 2019, behind only mega-blockbuster "Avengers: Endgame."

While television networks have attempted the occasional elder-skewing series since "The Golden Girls"/"Murder, She Wrote"/"Diagnosis:Murder" heyday of the late last century, Netflix seems to love its Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin hit "Grace and Frankie" - a sixth season, rare for one of the streaming giant's series, is in the works - and just ordered a second season of its award-winning male equivalent, "The Kominsky Method."

"Yeah, I can do this for a really long time," said Michael Douglas, who won a Golden Globe Award for playing "Kominsky's" titular acting teacher opposite 85-year-old Alan Arkin's recently widowed agent, Norman Newlander. "You can't say that about many other occupations.

"The whole continuity of having a series like 'Kominsky Method,' and we'll probably do a third 'Ant-Man' next year, at this point in my life is great," added 74-year-old Douglas, who's won acting and producing Oscars and earlier this year appeared as a digitally de-aged, 1970s version of his Ant-Man character Hank Pym in "Endgame." "You're not looking to work your ass off, but you're happy to still feel valid."

Other actors of a certain age are, well, keeping their posteriors in jeopardy.

Noble Jones, a longtime associate of director David Fincher and music video maker who made his feature writing and directing debut with "Tomorrow Man," found little resistance to getting his film financed with Lithgow (73) and Danner (76) packaged as its stars. However . . .

"We had to actually wait a year after John accepted the role because he did 'The Crown'," Jones said of Lithgow, who won his sixth Emmy for playing Winston Churchill in in that Netflix series two years ago. "What he pointed out was, he's never been busier. Blythe, of course, has gained quite a bit of activity recently, too. I don't know if it's specifically as a result of 'I'll See You in My Dreams' (her hit 2015 romance with silver stud Sam Elliott) but I do know that from that moment on, she's been pretty busy doing things.

"Anyway, that is kind of a circuitous way of saying, I don't know what you're talking about!" Jones laughed regarding the question of ageism in Hollywood.

"Poms'" deep bench of non-retitirng actresses includes "Book Club" alum Keaton (who also has the romance "Hampstead" opening this weekend), Jacki Weaver, Celia Weston, Rhea Perlman, Pam Grier and Phyllis Somerville. They've all got multiple credits for the past five years listed on their IMDb pages.

"They're kind of in demand," "Poms'" Zara Hayes, another director who had little trouble getting her elder-skewing feature-directing debut financed, noted. "Obviously, they're probably at the top end of their game, in terms of the small percentage of women at that age who are constantly getting work. I know that it's a lamentable problem for older actresses generally, but with our group, yeah, they're all really busy. Trying to get everyone in the same place at the same time was quite a feat.

"It's more like the kinds of things that they're being offered are not necessarily in these kinds of movies, not necessarily in movies where women at that age are front and center of the narrative," Hayes added. "That's what they said to me they really found exciting."

Indeed, while the Helen Mirrens (she's in this summer's action movies "Anna" and "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," by the way) and Liam Neesons (currently appearing in "Men in Black: International") of the world never seem to want for work, quality material for older actors is harder to come by. Of course, actors of any age will grouse about all the bad roles out there, but there's a fine line separating geriatric burlesque and cutesiness from three-dimensional shows about aging.

"There's no formula to speak of," creator Chuck Lorre said when asked how he works "Kominsky's" many age-related themes and gags into each episode. "It's just writing scripts that are trying to be true to who these characters are and what they're going through."

This century's most successful traditional TV's sitcom producer, Lorre has sometimes worked older characters into his hit shows "Two and a Half Men," "Mike & Molly," "The Big Bang Theory" and others. But when it came to one actually built more seriously around older guys trying to get through life, he knew not to waste his time even pitching it to his friends at the commercial networks.

"The main networks, in my experience, have been so driven by demographics, the fabled 18 to 49 group, it leaves us out, so you just wouldn't," Lorre said. "Why would you go in there and say, 'Here's a wonderful idea that I know you'll hate'?"

"They're still gearing that based on what advertisers want," Douglas aded. "So when you have a membership-based thing like streaming, they're not worried about advertisers, so they'll go for the audience. You've got a bigger, older audience that is so hungry for something like this."

Lorre said getting the "Kominsky" greenlit by Netflix was as simple as going into a 30-minute meeting with a pilot script and Douglas and Arkin flanking him. The streamer ordered eight episodes the next day.

If you aren't some of the biggest guns in the industry, though, doing something worthwhile with elderly skewing stories can be more of a creative struggle.

"Everyone always thinks these things are cutesy and I'm like no, that's not what it is," Jones said of his gnarly, late-life romance "Tomorrow Man." "I had to fight every single person along the way, even the composer, about that - but no asked me to make the characters younger.

"I hope that this film is contributing culturally in some way," he concluded. "People above 60 are capable of complex thought!"

"Poms" director Hayes sees a wider cultural prejudice that needs be overcome when folks try to make shows as interesting about the 60-plus crowd as they are for decades-younger characters.

"If you look at the things that are written about these movies and what people say, I think that there is ageism rife in the way people take them," Hayes noted. "People feel uncomfortable about aging and, therefore, don't know how to deal with films that try, in one way or another, to address it.

"I don't think we should be patronizing older audiences," she continued. "I think we should be honoring them with the stuff we do. We should respect their tastes, but we don't really as a culture, we kind of look down on them. So I think there is a much more nuanced, interesting thing going on."

Digital technology could be one interesting factor for opportunity. Not only is it key to the much more inclusive and diverse field of streaming entertainment, but Douglas revealed that being turned younger by computers in the Marvel movies has him fantasizing about resurrecting older projects on his resume.

However this all pans out, we figured that Douglas, more than any other actor of his generation, has a secret weapon when it comes to getting tips about longevity in Hollywood: His 102-year-old father Kirk Douglas, a superstar as big as his son will ever be.

"He's always been out of the school of do the best you can, and then f- it," Michael said when asked about Kirk's advice.

"That sound's like great dad wisdom!" Lorre duly noted.

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Of course there's ageism in Hollywood, but for some actors it's more nuanced than that

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When someone asks if there's ageism in Hollywood, the not inaccurate default answer is, naturally, of course. It's just common knowledge that movies and television have been primarily concerned with the lucrative "youth market" since most of today's senior citizens were, well, youths.

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This meme is a depiction of a cranky elderly woman with poor physical health. In this picture, the woman is depicted to be too lazy to get up due to a common misconception that all elderly have arthritis. It also connects to the stereotype of elderly being grumpy or crabby. The woman is complaining that she does not want to move. As one reads the text, it sends off a sarcastic connotation, again alluding to a cranky attitude. Her expression, as well as the text bubble, shows a mean behavior, stereotyping that all elderly woman are crass old ladies.

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Amazing 91 Year Old Gymnast: Johanna Quaas

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Amazing 91 Year Old Gymnast: Johanna Quaas

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This short clip shows the amazing gymnastic skills of a 91 year old woman, named Johanna Quaas. Gymnastics is a heavily athletic sport, and Johanna is quite seasoned in her skills. Although she does not tumble (aka do any flips), she is still able to balance quite well. Some of her skills include jumps, handstands, headstands, somersaults, cartwheels, and more. Out of the events in gymnastics, the video shows her completing the floor event, parallel bars, beam, and the single bar. This denotes the stereotype of elderly being lazy or weak in physical activity. At the age of 91, Johanna is still extremely active.