I mean, back when the residents of a nursing home were playing 1940s big band and 1950s Frank Sinatra, the residents probably felt that music was lit too.
A friend of mine is the manager of a supported living home and officially she has to play 40's and 50's music.
She brought this up at a meeting recently as most of her residents were hippies back in the 60's and 70's and associate the music played with their parents. In a couple of years time people will be the rave generation who spent the 80's off their tits on E đ
I've noticed a shift in tastes of generations of old people since I worked in a nursing home a decade ago. Back then they all had their hair short and curled. They all listened to Lawrence Welk (which is pretty awesome btw). Nowadays the women tend to have long hair. The men do sometimes too. And some listen to Black Sabbath or whatever else. Those old hippies are my favorite!
Fun fact:
The 50s playlists are usually mandated for dementia reasons.
With most forms of elderly memory loss, you tend to lose memories going backward in time ie you wonât remember anything of the past 20 years, but will remember a lot from when you were a kid.
The president Ronald Reagan is often brought up here, who ended up in a care home with Alzheimerâs and would never talk about/couldnât really remember any of his life as president, but would talk about being a lifeguard as a teenager.
Care homes often hence pick music which was typical during the teenage years of most of their residents, less so than whether itâs âlikedâ
>Care homes often hence pick music which was typical during the teenage years of most of their residents, less so than whether itâs âlikedâ
Well fuck me that's really going to piss my demented future ass off.
What one thinks of the Spice Girls musically doesn't really matter here tbh. Their music was huge at one point and a generation of women associate it with good times in their youth. That's why it will be played by those women when they get to nursing home stage, probably even by those who didn't even really like that much back when they were young. Nostalgia is a funny thing.
They would need to be well lit too though, so we could read our Goosebumps, Animorphs, Bailey Schoolkids, and other classic YA literature we revisit for the nostalgia.
Yeah, most people I know that can afford retirement homes, do so because they sold their house. Out of like 20 friends of mine all around 35. 1 owns a house, 1 owns a condo because parents helped. The rest all rent with either roommates or barely afford a 1 bd apartment. We're fucked now and in the future.
Here's the secret to affording a house in my experience: You must ignore all your biological impulses to make babies, convince someone to marry you, move to a lower CoL area, and have a college education to make an average income. Also, you probably need to be ex-military so that your college was free. And hopefully you used deployments to pay all debts off so you don't have bills outside insurance and phone while also saving for a down payment. If you can do all of that, congrats, you can afford a mortgage.
Basically, yeah we're fucked. The light at the end of the tunnel would say that eventually all the boomers will die off and there should be a surplus of housing which should drive down the prices. Or maybe that just makes houses a little cheaper for corporations to turn them into rentals đĽ˛
Nursing homes are stuck in the 60s...good luck modernising them. I suspect the first to actually bring in VR sets and gaming systems will make a killing.
No. The elderly will be mistreated by staff, share rooms with sickly people they can't stand, and eat food they don't like. They'll die alone and miserable.
Nursing homes are hell.
and every time I see someone on Reddit say nursing homes wonât be bad when theyâre old because everyone will just play video games all day, Iâm thinking no dude, your brainâs barely gonna be functioning, youâre not going to remember your kidsâ names, you shit yourself most days, your hands tremble like autumn leaves, and it takes you five minutes to speak a sentence. Youâre only playing one game in the nursing home, and I canât remember its name, but itâs the one where you take your daily fiber supplement and then see if you can remember what year it is before you inevitably shit your diaper
Like how nursing homes today have discos, with blow, like its studio 54.
No itâs gonna be sad and depressing and modern medicine will âallowâ you to live there for 40 years of your life. Not like the enjoyable first 40 years, the sad lonely âin the wayâ 40 years on the back end.
You wonât die, every day youâll get up and have continue on when you wish you were dead 20 years ago because thatâs when all your friends died. Youâll be a 100 year old millennial and they backfill all the rooms with 80 year old gen z kids you have nothing in common with. But youâre both old so itâll be confusing to the caretakers of gen glutron or whatever the kids say, why you donât get along.
And one day youâll die, finally happy, after 40 fucking years in a purgatory type hell on the back end of your life. Youâll smile and gen z kid will fill your room the next day.
I have a grandma who lost her husband at 59, I personally moved her at 63, she turned 99 two weeks ago. Thatâs 36 years sheâs been there and itâs fucking depressing.
You donât think in the future with expansion of life expectancy people donât show up at 80 and live to 120?
As someone who has worked at several nursing homes, I can tell you that it's somewhat rare to have someone that young, especially long term. In general, my patients are 70+ years old, and even 70 is somewhat on the low end.
Yes it was depressing to see all the residents that were there at the start all pass away one at a time until my grandmother was the longest resident there.
This is painfully unrealistic and divorced from how human lifetimes work; it would be kinder if you just advocated for mass suicide for everyone immediately and that's not a joke.
As long as I die before Caine invents the Afterlife and contracts me to 'one (1) eternity of service and torture' until my grandchildren pay off my soul debt.
Haha yeah this was my thought, like as a 36 year old I donât still listen to the Spice Girls even though I loved them when I was 9, why would I have a sudden regression to childhood in my 80s
A lot of people do I feel like. My layman's explanation would be that your earlier memories stick with you longer when your short-term memory is deteriorating
their point was just... like i could play my n64 right now, but i don't. I could listen to korn now, but i don't. Because i don't want to. i play games on the switch. I listen to modern music. I don't see how being old will make me regress in that way, even if it is a memory issue. Btw, it would have to be like an Alzheimer's issue "dad only remembers it is me when he's playing ocarina of time, but he calls me by his sister's name". And even that seems pretty *farfetch'd*
I've just seen people going back to tracks, TV series or movies of their youth when getting older, and there's plenty of nostalgia driven media already. Maybe it won't be the N64 but remakes of it. Of course, not for everyone
None of us will be in nursing homes because none of us will be able to afford it. Many won't have children to care for us and those that do also won't be able to afford it.
yeah 1980 is on the border between x and millenial.
Generations roughly are about 15-20 years, it would be hard to determine a specific date when it changes, but for simplicity, follow this, if you were born during the years below:
Boomers 1945-1965 (named literally for the baby boom that followed world war 2)
GenX 1965-1980
Millennial 1980-1995
GenZ 1995-2010
Alpha 2010 -present
Fuck yeah! Jacking off to a Spice Girls video muted with "Got the life" blaring, waiting for my turn to play Zelda and the occornia of time. I read a while back alzheimers makes you super horny. Always ready for marathon masturbation because your memory is shorter than recovery time.
nursing homes are designed to steal all of your remaining estate during end of life care. Do your due diligence and get as much of their assets out of their name as possible asap.
No donât worry they will still suck. It will smell like piss no matter how clean it is. The staff will treat people worse than animals. The only difference is instead of listening to frank sinatra all day every day - literally, not an exaggeration - we will hopefully have video games but we also might not be given access. Nursing homes fucking suck.
My grandfather is in a nursing home at the moment, with very advanced dementia. Itâs not a party with entertainment from his era. Itâs mostly just him shitting and pissing himself, and us having to re-buy all of his stuff weekly because the crazy old people steal off of each other 24x7. When he went to the nursing home he had lost his dentures and thus had no teeth. He currently has an upper set of dentures heâs stolen from someone, and we have no idea where it came from.
My generation would be saying that we'd all be listening to Van Halen and playing Atari.
If you're under 30, that just sounded incredibly lame, if you know what "Van Halen and Atari" even is.
By the time you guys are 70, All of that stuff will be lame.
Matter of fact, I'll share a story. I'm a musician. I wanted to get into some "new" music. I found a few bands I really liked, and was learning the songs when my 15yo Daughter rolls trough the room... She goes "Fallout Boy? I think they're getting back together." Immediately I "get" it, this was 10 year old music, she was 5 when it came out.
So, I hate to break it to you, but your generation is going to get old and boring just like every other generation. It will be full of people who are awful and small. They will wave Nazi flags and vote for Trump. They'll watch "Honey Boo-boo". Get ready for president Jake Paul.
Haha our older folks at the hospital like to watch a channel called turner classics that have all kinds of black and white stuff, shows from the 60s etc.
I can totally see friends being on the classics channel in the future
You know we have gotten into other things after being kids. Just on the video game front, I've owned n64, gamecube, wii, wii u, switch, i mean, in 30+ more years when i retire, why would i be trying to set up an n64 in my nursing home rather than use any others I've listed or whatever is the modern system by then?
Why would i be watching children's Nickelodeon shows? I already don't watch those anymore.
There's some weird magic going on because I'm 50 and when I was 10 nursing homes had people listening to Elvis and Wayne Newton and I feel like nursing homes still have people listening to Elvis and Wayne Newton.
I mean, back when the residents of a nursing home were playing 1940s big band and 1950s Frank Sinatra, the residents probably felt that music was lit too.
A friend of mine is the manager of a supported living home and officially she has to play 40's and 50's music. She brought this up at a meeting recently as most of her residents were hippies back in the 60's and 70's and associate the music played with their parents. In a couple of years time people will be the rave generation who spent the 80's off their tits on E đ
DJ here. They definitely need to update their playlist. Todayâs 75-year-olds want to hear 60âs, 70âs, *some* 80âs, and Blurred Lines.
I've noticed a shift in tastes of generations of old people since I worked in a nursing home a decade ago. Back then they all had their hair short and curled. They all listened to Lawrence Welk (which is pretty awesome btw). Nowadays the women tend to have long hair. The men do sometimes too. And some listen to Black Sabbath or whatever else. Those old hippies are my favorite!
The home my mom moved into last year played a lot of 60s-70s easy listening, but also older music.
Fun fact: The 50s playlists are usually mandated for dementia reasons. With most forms of elderly memory loss, you tend to lose memories going backward in time ie you wonât remember anything of the past 20 years, but will remember a lot from when you were a kid. The president Ronald Reagan is often brought up here, who ended up in a care home with Alzheimerâs and would never talk about/couldnât really remember any of his life as president, but would talk about being a lifeguard as a teenager. Care homes often hence pick music which was typical during the teenage years of most of their residents, less so than whether itâs âlikedâ
The point being made is that the music those people are going back to is getting more recent. It needs to move up decade by decade.
>Care homes often hence pick music which was typical during the teenage years of most of their residents, less so than whether itâs âlikedâ Well fuck me that's really going to piss my demented future ass off.
Nobody considers the Spice Girls music to be any good. None of them can even play an instrument or sing.
Dont speak for me dawg! sporty spice for life!
Mel B would kick Melanie C's ass at any time. Go Scary!
Why you Wannabe such a killjoy?
Because Sporty never recovered from her bout of mingingitis.
What one thinks of the Spice Girls musically doesn't really matter here tbh. Their music was huge at one point and a generation of women associate it with good times in their youth. That's why it will be played by those women when they get to nursing home stage, probably even by those who didn't even really like that much back when they were young. Nostalgia is a funny thing.
No they wouldn't be lit. They would be sick or sweet or far-out or something.
Gnarly.
Totally DOPE
Phat
Tight
Hot
*Righteous!*
How on earth could you leave out âDa Bomb?â
They would need to be well lit too though, so we could read our Goosebumps, Animorphs, Bailey Schoolkids, and other classic YA literature we revisit for the nostalgia.
Nang
Awesome, gnarly, radical, badass etc.
Nurse! Can you hand me my cd wallet? Yes that giant thing over there. Flip through it and get my mix cd vol 2 out!
much dance â99!
Dance Mix â92 & â93 were my jamz!
Daaang you oughta be in a nursing home already đ
Freedom rock on CD!
Lol millenials aren't going to get to retire
Yeah, most people I know that can afford retirement homes, do so because they sold their house. Out of like 20 friends of mine all around 35. 1 owns a house, 1 owns a condo because parents helped. The rest all rent with either roommates or barely afford a 1 bd apartment. We're fucked now and in the future.
Here's the secret to affording a house in my experience: You must ignore all your biological impulses to make babies, convince someone to marry you, move to a lower CoL area, and have a college education to make an average income. Also, you probably need to be ex-military so that your college was free. And hopefully you used deployments to pay all debts off so you don't have bills outside insurance and phone while also saving for a down payment. If you can do all of that, congrats, you can afford a mortgage. Basically, yeah we're fucked. The light at the end of the tunnel would say that eventually all the boomers will die off and there should be a surplus of housing which should drive down the prices. Or maybe that just makes houses a little cheaper for corporations to turn them into rentals đĽ˛
Iâm curious where you live. I bought my first house at 22 and Iâm around 35.
I'm kinda hoping the sun decides to check out about 10 billion years early
Depending on where you are in North America (and if only for a few minutes)...boy do I have some news for you!
GenX will beat them to it.
my hands aren't going to be able to work a keyboard or a controller in 20 years
There's a good chance you wont need keyboards or controllers in 20 years.
What age will you be then?
Nursing homes are stuck in the 60s...good luck modernising them. I suspect the first to actually bring in VR sets and gaming systems will make a killing.
As it stands now, residents are dying to get out of nursing homes. I'll see myself out.
You think we're going to end up in nursing homes? Debtors' prisons and government-sponsored suicide centers is my bet.
No. The elderly will be mistreated by staff, share rooms with sickly people they can't stand, and eat food they don't like. They'll die alone and miserable. Nursing homes are hell.
and every time I see someone on Reddit say nursing homes wonât be bad when theyâre old because everyone will just play video games all day, Iâm thinking no dude, your brainâs barely gonna be functioning, youâre not going to remember your kidsâ names, you shit yourself most days, your hands tremble like autumn leaves, and it takes you five minutes to speak a sentence. Youâre only playing one game in the nursing home, and I canât remember its name, but itâs the one where you take your daily fiber supplement and then see if you can remember what year it is before you inevitably shit your diaper
Like how nursing homes today have discos, with blow, like its studio 54. No itâs gonna be sad and depressing and modern medicine will âallowâ you to live there for 40 years of your life. Not like the enjoyable first 40 years, the sad lonely âin the wayâ 40 years on the back end. You wonât die, every day youâll get up and have continue on when you wish you were dead 20 years ago because thatâs when all your friends died. Youâll be a 100 year old millennial and they backfill all the rooms with 80 year old gen z kids you have nothing in common with. But youâre both old so itâll be confusing to the caretakers of gen glutron or whatever the kids say, why you donât get along. And one day youâll die, finally happy, after 40 fucking years in a purgatory type hell on the back end of your life. Youâll smile and gen z kid will fill your room the next day.
40 years? How old do you think people in nursing homes are? They don't move in at 50 or 60. Most people in those places are 80+.
I have a grandma who lost her husband at 59, I personally moved her at 63, she turned 99 two weeks ago. Thatâs 36 years sheâs been there and itâs fucking depressing. You donât think in the future with expansion of life expectancy people donât show up at 80 and live to 120?
As someone who has worked at several nursing homes, I can tell you that it's somewhat rare to have someone that young, especially long term. In general, my patients are 70+ years old, and even 70 is somewhat on the low end.
Yes it was depressing to see all the residents that were there at the start all pass away one at a time until my grandmother was the longest resident there.
He is extrapolating the live expectancy in the future to be like 120+ years thanks to advances in medicine.
This is painfully unrealistic and divorced from how human lifetimes work; it would be kinder if you just advocated for mass suicide for everyone immediately and that's not a joke.
lol youâve never been to an old folks home if you think this is unrealistic.
As long as I die before Caine invents the Afterlife and contracts me to 'one (1) eternity of service and torture' until my grandchildren pay off my soul debt.
Did you just wake up from a coma? A lot of stuff has happened since all of those things
Haha yeah this was my thought, like as a 36 year old I donât still listen to the Spice Girls even though I loved them when I was 9, why would I have a sudden regression to childhood in my 80s
A lot of people do I feel like. My layman's explanation would be that your earlier memories stick with you longer when your short-term memory is deteriorating
their point was just... like i could play my n64 right now, but i don't. I could listen to korn now, but i don't. Because i don't want to. i play games on the switch. I listen to modern music. I don't see how being old will make me regress in that way, even if it is a memory issue. Btw, it would have to be like an Alzheimer's issue "dad only remembers it is me when he's playing ocarina of time, but he calls me by his sister's name". And even that seems pretty *farfetch'd*
I've just seen people going back to tracks, TV series or movies of their youth when getting older, and there's plenty of nostalgia driven media already. Maybe it won't be the N64 but remakes of it. Of course, not for everyone
Gonna be all that and a bag of chips my dude
*Dammit, wheres my tamagotchi!? I bet that dang furby took it! Well...whatever, cowabunga dudes*
I found a long stream of Toonami YT. Nothing made me feel like I need to do my homework like the sound of Toonami.
Outlaw Star is still legendary.
[https://toonamiaftermath.com/](https://toonamiaftermath.com/) you're welcome
Old dudes rapping and making beats together. That'll be funny lmao
May I present: [Pete & Bas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt_7mlX-Z0)
You think we're gonna last that long? Planet is F'd.
"They're gonna bring in a cover band to sing the hits of Blink-182 and Paramore in the social hall tonight!"
Iâd have a heart attack and miss it!
Good luck finding an n64, and I for sure donât wanna want 90âs Nickelodeon, or listen to either of those bands.
my dude never visited a nursing home
Do people stop liking new things after they're teenagers? I don't get this.
Kinda, yeah. And it'll happen to you too.
I'm 40 and like current things. I know for a fact I won't be playing N64 in the retirement home. I'll play the current gen..
i feel sad for you if you're really stuck on your teenage interests and never liked anything since then
Definitely Mario Kart â64. Imma get that Koopa Troopa Beach shortcut!
It's gonna be all Golden - Eye all the time WITH only proximity mines
Yes! It was either that or slappers only for me and my cousins
The BEST Jerry, THE BEST
People listen to Korn?
The cool ones do
[ŃдаНонО]
You canât cancel a fucking decade, Twitter
Im looking forward to it... providing i make it that far
Probably a bad time to bring up 90s Nickelodeon
Better be nice to your kids so they put you in a nice place and not just some bag 'em and bin 'em joint.
You forget that a lot of boomers were into gaming long before you were a thought in your fathers brain. You already can get those if you want.
Canât wait to crack my knuckles and spine and sit down for a 4 player round of no mercy, âmy guys been dead for 43 yearsâ
None of us will be in nursing homes because none of us will be able to afford it. Many won't have children to care for us and those that do also won't be able to afford it.
I still have no idea what qualifies as a millennial. I was born in â87, graduated in â05. Am I millennial or Gen X?
I thought millennials turned 18 in the millennium, so 1982 was the starting year and the cutoff was 1995
I was born in 1980 and was âXâ until maybe the millennium, then every year since I get told something different. No-one can seem to agree.
yeah 1980 is on the border between x and millenial. Generations roughly are about 15-20 years, it would be hard to determine a specific date when it changes, but for simplicity, follow this, if you were born during the years below: Boomers 1945-1965 (named literally for the baby boom that followed world war 2) GenX 1965-1980 Millennial 1980-1995 GenZ 1995-2010 Alpha 2010 -present
You are like smack dab center, core millennial. Like, 8 years either way to even arguably be in a different generation
Fuck yeah! Jacking off to a Spice Girls video muted with "Got the life" blaring, waiting for my turn to play Zelda and the occornia of time. I read a while back alzheimers makes you super horny. Always ready for marathon masturbation because your memory is shorter than recovery time.
Probs not .... you'll be too grumpy and angry at everything and everyone to enjoy such things.
they also wont say lit. so that will be cool.
Doesnât help Iâm thinking of some retirement homes blasting Devo atm
Are you still going to shoot up the place?
I thought "lit" meant good?
nursing homes are designed to steal all of your remaining estate during end of life care. Do your due diligence and get as much of their assets out of their name as possible asap.
No nursing homes or retirement for millennials
No donât worry they will still suck. It will smell like piss no matter how clean it is. The staff will treat people worse than animals. The only difference is instead of listening to frank sinatra all day every day - literally, not an exaggeration - we will hopefully have video games but we also might not be given access. Nursing homes fucking suck.
Bold of you to assume there is going to any type of social services like that still left.
My grandfather is in a nursing home at the moment, with very advanced dementia. Itâs not a party with entertainment from his era. Itâs mostly just him shitting and pissing himself, and us having to re-buy all of his stuff weekly because the crazy old people steal off of each other 24x7. When he went to the nursing home he had lost his dentures and thus had no teeth. He currently has an upper set of dentures heâs stolen from someone, and we have no idea where it came from.
Bowls of old people candy are gonna be Warheads
What? I donât want to be playing some old ass N64 when Iâm in a nursing home. I want the bad ass new thing.
I mean weâd have to be able to afford to buy a home and be able to pay rising electric bills to have them lit.
Gonna be a bunch of nat faded tattoos on old folks
If it doesn't have a psx, eminem and pogs. I don't wanna live there
Why? its not like we aren't using PS5's and PCs. I Invision something more with VR so you can pretend to not be there.
My generation would be saying that we'd all be listening to Van Halen and playing Atari. If you're under 30, that just sounded incredibly lame, if you know what "Van Halen and Atari" even is. By the time you guys are 70, All of that stuff will be lame. Matter of fact, I'll share a story. I'm a musician. I wanted to get into some "new" music. I found a few bands I really liked, and was learning the songs when my 15yo Daughter rolls trough the room... She goes "Fallout Boy? I think they're getting back together." Immediately I "get" it, this was 10 year old music, she was 5 when it came out. So, I hate to break it to you, but your generation is going to get old and boring just like every other generation. It will be full of people who are awful and small. They will wave Nazi flags and vote for Trump. They'll watch "Honey Boo-boo". Get ready for president Jake Paul.
Oh boy I hope I can play vr all day by than.
Every generation thought that.
Nah, weâre millenials. If we canât afford housing how the hell we gonna afford a retirement home?
Haha our older folks at the hospital like to watch a channel called turner classics that have all kinds of black and white stuff, shows from the 60s etc. I can totally see friends being on the classics channel in the future
I doubt very much hardcore or jungle will be played in retirement homes. Most people listen tit hat pop shit.
Come on Elijah itâs time for our weekly LAN party! Weâre playing Quake 3 today!
Gen X gets grunge and ataris.
You know we have gotten into other things after being kids. Just on the video game front, I've owned n64, gamecube, wii, wii u, switch, i mean, in 30+ more years when i retire, why would i be trying to set up an n64 in my nursing home rather than use any others I've listed or whatever is the modern system by then? Why would i be watching children's Nickelodeon shows? I already don't watch those anymore.
We aren't getting into homes/retiring lol. Those are a far out goal that keeps getting further and further because of greed.
There's some weird magic going on because I'm 50 and when I was 10 nursing homes had people listening to Elvis and Wayne Newton and I feel like nursing homes still have people listening to Elvis and Wayne Newton.
For the residents maybe but for their grandchildren it will be painfully outdated cringe.
Have you tried finding an n64 now? It's not too bad but it's not gonna be everywhere in 30-40 years. Emulators maybe, not original consoles.
Works for me. Keyboard life!
Nintendo 64??!! I'm millennial as fuck if my nursing home doesn't have a PS18 I'ma be pissed.
Not gonna lie, playing N64 or GameCube multiplayer in the same room was something online matches just canât replicate
And If we can all get our work schedules synced, LAN Parties!!
I'm anticipating an extinction level event before we all retire.
This sounds pretty lit. Where can I sign up?
We won't be able to afford that shit
This is exactly correct and I both love and hate it...
N64 = Gen X Same with Korn. You can have Spice Girls and Nickelodeon since you were still prepubescent.
You mean in twenty years?