What do you do with old sims?

I have a retirement home in my game. If a household is too full, (or my retirement-age Sims are just looking to escape the hectic family life), they go there to enjoy their golden years. They have private rooms as well as common areas with activities, a pool and garden. I have an administrator-type adult sim who cooks and such. They have a club and the club members meet there or go out together and enjoy themselves.

This thread may have just inspired my next save. Golden Girls anybody? ;)

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I kill them off in my cemetery lot.

I usually play with aging off. If I gotta kill one off I send them off with exhaustion for the grins. I think the nursing home idea is cute.. but our elders are high functioning. I'd rather think of it as a social club. Uggh now I have a new idea for a death by woohoo lot.

I've just recently built a Retirement Home for my Elders. I'm doing the Generation Challenge so I wanted somewhere nice to put them. I thought a Retirement Home would be the best option!

For those times when you keep the elders in the legacy home to the end of their life... if your legacy home has a "Master" bedroom - when do you kick the elders out of their master bedroom into the "grandparents" suite? Or do you move the heirs into the master bedroom only when the elders have passed on?

I haven't added a retirement place yet (good idea btw) but I did create one club for my elderly called We keep on ticking and they meet in the community center I put in New Crest.

"Pegasys;c-16384780" wrote:
For those times when you keep the elders in the legacy home to the end of their life... if your legacy home has a "Master" bedroom - when do you kick the elders out of their master bedroom into the "grandparents" suite? Or do you move the heirs into the master bedroom only when the elders have passed on?

Well actually. When it is time when the grandparents become too old for the stairs, it might be a good idea to move them into a room on the groundfloor, thus freeing up the master bedroom. But also, the grandparents can themselves, when they find that the kids are NOT leaving the roost, to give up the master bedroom for the new generation.

You wouldn't believe how many old people, for instance in my country, that have set house on their ground floor of their big two story houses and haven't gone up to the second floor in years, and live alone.

I let my senior sims stay in their home with their adult children. I typically choose one child to remain and take the home over after their senior parents pass on. I don't have the heart to kick them out or move them into a senior home. Perhaps it's because that's what happened to my grandparents in real life. No one should die forgotten and ignored in a senior home in real life and it certainly will not happen in my game.

I still play with my elders. Sometimes they are married to people who are younger or they still have young kids. I tend to dye their hair back to their original color, though not always. They often still look like something of their younger selves with more wrinkles. I'd like to have some softer make up options that look better on older women so that they don't look too harsh - unless I want them to. I'd like most elder women in my game to age gracefully as respected, integral and loving family members. The male elders sometimes have a late-life crisis but they are usually loving parents and grandparents too. There could definitely be exceptions to this tendency depending on individual personalities.

I have not built a senior facility and I don't really have a designated lot space for that. If an SP came out for elders that included more stuff for that, it would interest me. I'd only have certain elders move into a facility like that and even then, it usually wouldn't happen right away.

Now, I do tend to delete or age down random townie elders. You kind of have to earn elder status in my game because I usually want a range of ages and I skew towards editing most townies to be YAs so that they will be around a while. If I did add an elder facility, I might allow a few fun townies to join in.

I basically play every life stage including the elders. It's a cradle to grave rotation for those born into it. I find it to be kind of interesting how the same spaces change and evolve over time. My game is kind of the entire world rather than one family in it.