The One Bad Week That Changes Everything After 70
Here is a pattern we see often enough that it has become predictable.
Someone in their seventies is managing well. Independent, driving, doing their own shopping, maybe a little slower than they were but fundamentally fine.
Then something happens. A chest infection. A fall. A hospital admission. A surgery. A bad flu that puts them in bed for ten days.
They recover from the illness itself. The infection clears, the wound heals, the fracture mends.
But they never quite get back to where they were.