Fallacy of Generalization
Last week my husband and I was talking about our grand parents: I told him, course your sister Mariam was joking when she wrote to you about needing to talk with yours 68-year-old grand mother about going into a nursing home. While I admire My concern for my parents, and agree that as one approaches 60 it is wise to make some long-term plans, I hardly think that 68 is the right age at which to talk about a retirement home unless there are some serious health concerns. In this era, when people are living to a healthy and ripe old age, I am jumping the gum. My 85-year-old grand mother power-walks two miles each day, drives her car (safely), climbs stairs, does crosswords, reads the daily paper and could probably do so for at least the next 10 years.
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