A great aunt recently turned 102 and somebody suggested that she might be better off to leave her home-unit as her eyesight is failing. Currently she lives alone and has so far managed to cook/shop/clean without help. As a trial she spent a week in an "old folks" home. Her comments were "The rooms are lovely. The staff are lovely and caring, and couldn't be nicer, but when I went to the dining room and sat down to eat it was filled with old people."

Up until a few years ago this aunt used to have friends around for dinner parties, cooking everything herself.

Just goes to show....it's all in the mind really.