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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Grietje said that when the illness is advanced, you might walk right past a mirror without recognizing it’s you. She said she hoped she’d think to herself, “My, what a nice-looking woman!”

51. “Grietje said that when the illness is advanced, you might walk right past a mirror without recognizing it’s you. She said she hoped she’d think to herself, “My, what a nice-looking woman!”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “The record for the shortest stay is held by a lady whose name we never even came to know. A day and a half after arriving through the front door in a wheelchair, she departed again through the back door in a coffin.”

52. “The record for the shortest stay is held by a lady whose name we never even came to know. A day and a half after arriving through the front door in a wheelchair, she departed again through the back door in a coffin.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Teenagers are embarrassed by old people. Old people don’t get it, are hard of hearing, don’t even own a computer, are slow, are clueless about fashion and music, and all they have to offer you is a cookie.”

53. “Teenagers are embarrassed by old people. Old people don’t get it, are hard of hearing, don’t even own a computer, are slow, are clueless about fashion and music, and all they have to offer you is a cookie.”

— Hendrik Groen

Hendrik Groen Quote: “Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended the consultation. I had to think that one over.”

54. “Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended the consultation. I had to think that one over.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “It seems old-age homes are teeming with junkies. They’re addicted to sleeping pills containing benzodiazepines. Huh? Yes, benzodiazepines. They also help assuage anxiety and fretting. But they come with a dangerous side effect: you might break a hip. In the Netherlands alone they’ve caused over a thousand broken hips, by the experts’ estimate – elderly folks who wake up in the middle of the night in an extra-doddering state, stagger to the bathroom and take a fall. Crack.”

55. “It seems old-age homes are teeming with junkies. They’re addicted to sleeping pills containing benzodiazepines. Huh? Yes, benzodiazepines. They also help assuage anxiety and fretting. But they come with a dangerous side effect: you might break a hip. In the Netherlands alone they’ve caused over a thousand broken hips, by the experts’ estimate – elderly folks who wake up in the middle of the night in an extra-doddering state, stagger to the bathroom and take a fall. Crack.”

— Hendrik Groen

Hendrik Groen Quote: “I may possibly be a candidate for Alzheimer’s myself, since I’m finding crude jokes much funnier now than I once did. I am growing less respectable all the time.”

56. “I may possibly be a candidate for Alzheimer’s myself, since I’m finding crude jokes much funnier now than I once did. I am growing less respectable all the time.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “He showed us his new bracelet, proud as a peacock. He maintained that his mother-in-law had given it to him. It read DO NOT RESUSCITATE. “Do you know what it means?” asked Eefje kindly. No, he did not. I asked if he was certain his mother-in-law had given it to him.”

57. “He showed us his new bracelet, proud as a peacock. He maintained that his mother-in-law had given it to him. It read DO NOT RESUSCITATE. “Do you know what it means?” asked Eefje kindly. No, he did not. I asked if he was certain his mother-in-law had given it to him.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Before dinner I had tea with Mrs. Visser. Her conversation is even more tepid than her tea.”

58. “Before dinner I had tea with Mrs. Visser. Her conversation is even more tepid than her tea.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “I tend to choose the path of least confrontation. My specialty: wanting to please everybody.”

59. “I tend to choose the path of least confrontation. My specialty: wanting to please everybody.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Mr. Timmerman seems to have his eye on Eefje, which I can perfectly well understand. He hasn’t got a chance, however; Eefje will have nothing to do with him because he’s a big show-off and also because he stinks.”

60. “Mr. Timmerman seems to have his eye on Eefje, which I can perfectly well understand. He hasn’t got a chance, however; Eefje will have nothing to do with him because he’s a big show-off and also because he stinks.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Woe to the man who thinks he is worth fifty-six times more than the woman who lovingly performs the dirty work.”

61. “Woe to the man who thinks he is worth fifty-six times more than the woman who lovingly performs the dirty work.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Two beds down, a woman was with her husband who had just come out of surgery. All she talked about for half an hour was herself, especially her own ailments. I did something I’d never have dared to do before. I asked her, “Hadn’t you better trade places with him?”

62. “Two beds down, a woman was with her husband who had just come out of surgery. All she talked about for half an hour was herself, especially her own ailments. I did something I’d never have dared to do before. I asked her, “Hadn’t you better trade places with him?”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Mr. Bakker, this home’s biggest pain in the neck, ran his Canta through the car wash but forgot to close his window. He went to push the window button, but it was too late, he was already sitting inside an aquarium.”

63. “Mr. Bakker, this home’s biggest pain in the neck, ran his Canta through the car wash but forgot to close his window. He went to push the window button, but it was too late, he was already sitting inside an aquarium.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Some residents will scoot back inside their rooms, because they think dementia is contagious. Or maybe it’s not, but you never know. Keeping out of the way can’t hurt in any case, is the basic attitude. And that goes not only for dementia. Cancer patients, homosexuals, Muslims: they’re all best avoided.”

64. “Some residents will scoot back inside their rooms, because they think dementia is contagious. Or maybe it’s not, but you never know. Keeping out of the way can’t hurt in any case, is the basic attitude. And that goes not only for dementia. Cancer patients, homosexuals, Muslims: they’re all best avoided.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “I made him solemnly swear he would leave the fish alone. He swore “on my mother’s life” that he would. His mother has been dead for twenty-five years.”

65. “I made him solemnly swear he would leave the fish alone. He swore “on my mother’s life” that he would. His mother has been dead for twenty-five years.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “The bill before Parliament proposing that citizens have the right to clean diapers has been withdrawn. Just as I’m having to start wearing them!”

66. “The bill before Parliament proposing that citizens have the right to clean diapers has been withdrawn. Just as I’m having to start wearing them!”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier than it is: sad, grim, and funny all at once.”

67. “Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier than it is: sad, grim, and funny all at once.”

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Hendrik Groen Quote: “The hemming and hawing is courtesy of Mrs. Duchamps, head of nursing, a small, snippy woman who always seems to know best. She’s French: she should have stayed in France. Arrogant and unsympathetic, but she does have a cute French accent.”

68. “The hemming and hawing is courtesy of Mrs. Duchamps, head of nursing, a small, snippy woman who always seems to know best. She’s French: she should have stayed in France. Arrogant and unsympathetic, but she does have a cute French accent.”

— Hendrik Groen

Hendrik Groen Quote: “Jealousy in old age sometimes goes to ridiculous lengths. Owing to the overabundance of women here, the married ladies do not like to let their husbands out of their sight.”

69. “Jealousy in old age sometimes goes to ridiculous lengths. Owing to the overabundance of women here, the married ladies do not like to let their husbands out of their sight.”

— Hendrik Groen

Hendrik Groen Quote: “There we go: yesterday we had the first complaints about the warm weather! “It always gets so muggy here in the Netherlands!” according to fat Bakker. Only two days ago he was still complaining about the cold. Sometimes I’d like to kill him.”

70. “There we go: yesterday we had the first complaints about the warm weather! “It always gets so muggy here in the Netherlands!” according to fat Bakker. Only two days ago he was still complaining about the cold. Sometimes I’d like to kill him.”

— Hendrik Groen

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