19/100: Elderly couples

I had the pleasure of participating in a surprise birthday party for one of the elderly clients at the speech-language clinic. All the other elderly clients come on that day, and they socialize in group therapy. For the party, we invited the spouses and everyone. The room was crowded with cute little old ladies with their sweater jackets and colorful jewelry, and their husbands with button-down shirts tucked into their khakis. There was yummy food. We even played a little trivia game and chatted. It was lovely.

It was so sweet to see the clients and their spouses. Some of the clients have paralysis and paresis on one side of their bodies which made getting the food difficult. Their spouses would get the food and ask what the other spouse wanted, or help their spouse with a supporting arm as they went together to the table with the food.

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