And How Are You Feeling This Morning?

[poliphilo]

Why do people feel they have to adopt a false-hearty, jollying-along tone of voice when they're talking to the very old? Ailz was noting that some of my mother's carers do it and others don't. We certainly don't. There's no need for it. My mother's deaf- and you may have to raise your voice to her and enunciate clearly- but you're not achieving anything by patronising her. 

Comments

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

That bugs me too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

People are people whatever their age.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to get a bit of it at the doctor's office and it drives me up a wall.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's very tiresome.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I HATE that. It's like talking baby talk to children which I also hate.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think children like it either. I always try to talk to them person to person.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

My mom talks to my dad (who has dementia) like that. I don't. He responds to her voice, but ignores me.