You Are Never to Old to Live Your Dream

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According to the www.huffingtonpost.com online article titled “Going To College At 63: 'You're Never Too Old To Live Your Dream'” Ms. Natale is not too old to complete her degree. In this article a woman tells her life story about hardships that she endured throughout her life that was a big result as to why she wasn’t able to finish high school or attend college at the age she should have done so. The woman states in the article that, and I paraphrase “you’re never too old to go back to school as long as you have breath in your body.” In class we watched a documentary titled Over 90 and loving it and a score of people that ranged from the age of 90 to over 100 years old were being interviewed. There was one woman who was over 90 years old and she was still working. She was able to drive a car and drive herself to work and operate as someone 60 years her junior. Another woman on the documentary went back to college to get her degree as well. Another article on the www.backtolearn.com website talks about a 70 year old woman who went back to college to get her bachelor’s degree and graduated at the top of her class with a 3.95 GPA. Even in the previous article that was stated earlier in this paragraph about the 63 old woman going back to school; she too made the dean’s list every semester until graduation. According to the www.backtolearn.com website, they stated that according to the National Student Clearinghouse; 38 percent of students enrolled between the fall 2009 and 2011 period were over the age of 25 years old. I stated all these things to bring forth why I believe Ms. Natale is not too old to complete her degree. She has the mind to do it, she should go for it. I cannot know why a person in their later years of life would w... ... middle of paper ... ...ww.caregiver.org; some issues that could arise for Sam could be frustration which comes out him trying to change a situation that is uncontrollable. An article on www.helpguide.org states that issues can be emotional. Having to watch memories deplete and function skills deteriorate can take an emotional toll on the caregiver given that the person being cared for is a loved one. In my opinion care giving can be stressful because some patients require 24 hours of care giving. This could consume the entire life of the caregiver not giving them any time for themselves or their families. I believe that there must be a balance and a counting of the cost when doing this job. A caregiver should carefully map out how they would engage themselves in their role as a caregiver as well as how they will still be able to function outside of this role in their own personal lives.

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