Do you think old people think about their grandparents alot?

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I was wondering about this. I never remember my grandma talking about her grandparents when she was alive, though my other grandma will occasionally talk about hers, though never in detail.

Do you think after like 50 years of your grandparents being dead, you would still think about them often, like every day or more just now and then? I guess it depends of course as the relationship with your grandparents can range from being stronger than that with your parents to totally non-existent. Do your grandparents still talk about their grandparents, ie your great great grandparents, and do they get emotional/sad talking about them?

My grandmother (my only living grandparent) talks about her grandparents occasionally. She doesn't get emotional. I don't know if she did years ago or not. When my grandfather was alive he also spoke of his grandparents before.

I think that they do. I also think that the older you get, the more you think about your grandparents. I think about them more than I did five years ago. I also think about the era in which they grew up in. I'm glad that there were a lot of social changes in the 60s. I can't imagine living in a world that's stuck in the 40s.

I had only two grandparents (my maternal ones, the paternal ones, also currently deceased, weren't ever known to me) and I used to have talks only with my gran - grandpa didn't ever speak about anything that didn't concern casual everyday things (the farm, what's for dinner etc.). My gran never spoke of her grandparents because she didn't know them - she knew only their names and that's all. She wasn't particularly interested in her family's history, unlike me. Anyway, she didn't have almost any relatives but for her immediate family - parents and sister. I do have two relatives, mother and son, on gran's side of family but I'm not sure in what way they are related to me; they are distant relatives. But for them, my whole family I know is the one who is related to my grandpa.

I think about my grandparents (at least some of them) a lot, but mostly only because I am now a grandparent also and I wonder what they might have been thinking while thinking about their own children and grandchildren. Mostly thinking about my paternal grandfather, the one I was around the most, I try to look back and recall things he said and did (or did not say or do) in relation to his own children and grandchildren. I believe he set a good example overall, but it would sure be nice to actually talk with him now and ask for some specific advice.

i like that question. i've never really thought about my grandparents grandparents

one grandparent i'll always think of, one i never met, and the other two i will probably think of every now and then because that's what you do with people who have been in your life and have memories with, right?

I don't think about my grandparents often, yet I'm aware of the ways they've influenced my life. I had a set of cool and a set of not-cool grandparents, and I've come to realize that it's the not-cools, practical, hard-headed cusses that they were, who gave me the tools I needed to survive. I can't help but be sincerely grateful.

As to their own grandparents, I can only recall my grandfather talking about going to visit his own grandfather when he was about 5 and the grandfather 85. It's a shock to realize the older man was born in 1815 and I have this word of mouth connection with someone from so very long ago.

From my experience with old people, they mainly think about what they're eating for their next meal (after all, food is called life's last pleasure) and how to not s**t themselves. I wish I was being sarcastic but I'm not.

^ Not all old people. My grandmother (the only one of my grandparents still alive) is over 90 years old and still has her drivers licence, still lives by herself looking after her house & 2 acre block. My other grandmother would probably still be alive and kicking the same way if it wasn't for her bad kidneys. Her kidney function was destroyed by heart meds. I can't remember a single old/deceased relative who ended up in nursing home care.

I think old people would reminisce about their younger years a lot in general, not just think about their grandparents. As they get older and their memory deteriorates (though not always does it happen) their childhood/teens/young adulthood are always one of the things they still remember as clear as day.

Only if their grandparents had a particularly memorable alot, I guess.

I never really knew my grandparents. Two died before I was born or as a baby, one when I was 6, and one when I was in my 20s, but I'd only met her once.

But I think about them a lot, and their ancestors. I wonder what they were like, how their lives were, what the world was like then.

I don't consider my dad old, exactly, but I know he does think about his grandparents a lot. As I knew my great grandmother, we'll sometimes talk about her. Sometimes we tease him that he's like her in that he can never remember what pain he was complaining about. She was like that, too. She walked with a cane, and had one bad leg, but sometimes she would forget the pain in that leg, and complain about the pain in her other leg. She would argue with the doctors about it. They'd take X rays, and she would get mad because they told her her other leg was fine, but she said it was that leg that hurt most, and they most have switched it. She was a bit of a hypochondriac, but she was always so much fun.

No; I don't really think my grandparents knew their own grandparents all that well...
My maternal grandparents talk about their parents, though. (My maternal grandmother's mother is still alive, but the story behind their relationship was complicated by a lack of money and WWII–during which my grandmother was an infant/small child–but she still talks about her mother and has since, in some ways, reconnected with her; my maternal grandfather's parents died in the 1970s but I still hear stories about them.)
I knew both of my paternal grandmother's parents, though my great-grandmother died when I was three. I knew my great-grandfather (who probably had AS), and he died when I was 12.

Blehblehbleh...

It makes me sad to think about being old and not having grandparents/parents, but I very much imagine that I will remini--- GOD, IT'S SO DEPRESSING!