What do you do with your Elderly Sims?

[loveSims]

I treat my elders like royalty. If they wish for something they get it and I let them do whatever they want. When they want to rerire I let them. I don't let them work they deserve to enjoy life and I don't make the age sliders short! Generations make elders a lot of fun to play.

[MissYuna4ever]

I usually stop playing a game when my favorite sim reaches the elder stage... It just gets so boring!

Yeah, that is how it usually feels for me but I've decided to challenge myself to find something fun or more efficient to do with them...I guess it could be a New Year's Resolution: Treat my Elderly sims with more freedom and have them engage in fun like prior to their Elderly stage.

I also have their life span shortened

Oh, that is a good idea - I never really thought about lowering their age span before!

OMG!  That's rather like pulling the plug on them.  Poor dears.  Now for me, anyone decides to pull any plug and I'll come back and HAUNT them!  lol  Just because you are chronologically "elder", doesn't mean you have to quit or not have a life of your choosing. I'm 72 and play Sims3 for heaven's sake, and help create wonderful places for you guys to play in.  Don't give up on your old folks.  We just wanna have fun!  (Song, "Girls, just wanna have fun" running through my head at the moment. lol)

Yes, I agree that it may be a little harsh but it also is very beneficial depending on your playing style such as I generally have Family-Orientated sims, which sometimes get on my nervous but I'm not one for exploring new traits much (although I shall try to make more of an effort to keep it fun - Maybe I'll do a legacy with random traits). For situations like that you could do with the elderly sims out of the way (I know it's mean but it's the truth) but a shorter life span would allow them to have their freedom/fun whilst making room for the younger generations.

[MoMoll]

OMG!  That's rather like pulling the plug on them.  Poor dears.  Now for me, anyone decides to pull any plug and I'll come back and HAUNT them!  lol  Just because you are chronologically "elder", doesn't mean you have to quit or not have a life of your choosing. I'm 72 and play Sims3 for heaven's sake, and help create wonderful places for you guys to play in.  Don't give up on your old folks.  We just wanna have fun!  (Song, "Girls, just wanna have fun" running through my head at the moment. lol)

I don't see it that way. They get to have lots of fun till the end. Since your limited on the number of sims per household, it just makes sense to cut their span a little. My babies are only babies for one day (I hate diapers and lack of sleep).

[Katluvr]

Just because you are chronologically "elder", doesn't mean you have to quit or not have a life of your choosing. I'm 72 and play Sims3 for heaven's sake, and help create wonderful places for you guys to play in.  Don't give up on your old folks.  We just wanna have fun!  (Song, "Girls, just wanna have fun" running through my head at the moment. lol)

You are my HERO, Joria!

They just wanna, they just wanna, oh girls just wanna have fu-un... 
*dancing around the house in an awesome 80's flashback!*

[CynKuy]

I give them a makeover with hair colored using the color wheel and some new threads.  The clothes the game gives them makes them look decrepit and sad.
I had them fish and garden and cook, they also babysat.

[Mikezumi]

I treat my elders very well.  I let them retire from their jobs and let them do what they enjoy.  I also like the kids getting to know and be with their grandparents.  If a grandparent is outside the household I tend to forget them because it's hard incorporating visits and such into a busy schedule as I generally have more than 4 kids per family.  When they die I keep their headstones in the garden and hope for visits

[HannahEloiseee]

I let them write books, make necter, garden and look after the grandchildren. 

[jeanamariex3]

My favorite premade Sim is an elder actually, and I'm planning on writing a story about her. She's getting a cane, harassing the children with it, and living perfectly content in her dirty smelly home with her four cats: Pickles, her husband Mothball, their daughter Maria, and Muffin, the one that's just sort of there. I'm putting her in the criminal career, giving her the young again potion, and helping her fufill her LTW, Empress of Evil! 

[ArianaJade]

I've just bought my three dynasty elders a miner and a time machine. My founder has taken to digging a lot of holes in the back garden, the third generation keeps going on trips in the time machine, and my second gen is doing most of the raising of the fifth generation toddler and loving that. Plus they all still have jobs. One of the second gen spare children maxed two new skills in her elder years. The dynasty is my first experience of playing elder sims, and it's a lot of fun. They don't have to worry about any goals, so they can just have fun and show their personality.

[Sara2573]

I never even keep my Sims that long. xD I have never kept a Sim past Adult. I play Sims most as Teens and YAs. I just haven't found "The One Sim" that keeps me interested. I tend to make the YAs move out and continue with the next generation.

[saltpastillen]

I've just really started playing more elder sims since I started a legacy, and I really enjoy the experience. I usually give them a lot more free rein, let them vegetate around the house playing gnubb in their jammies (the competition can be fierce) or just sending them to the park or somewhere down town and let them enjoy themselves with me just  looking in in them occasionally. The last is actually the best, because they end up making new friends/enemies, get invited to parties and spin new wishes they never seemed to have had an interest in before.

[Janna]

 This has given me some ideas and some hope for my sims when they turn elderly.  The first sim that I had do so, I had to delete the town; due to some glitches.  I do remember feeling sad as this hottie, with a great body all of a sudden changed to an old man.  In real life we get to see our parents and ourselves slowly age, so it isn't a sudden shock like we do with our sims.   One day looking young and the next day like an old man/woman around 80. 

My wonder has been, where do I put them, as in bedroom space.  I am doing a legacy, my own, not one here, and with a three bedroom house, where will put them when the chosen sim marries and starts their family?  I don't know yet how to build a nice big house with lots of bedrooms. 
Definitely need to learn how to build a two story house.

Anyhow, this does help me to feel less sad as they get ready to turn elderly, that they won't be sitting around, looking out the window and vegitating (like my dad did). 

[LittleMissCupcake]

I usually let them relax in the final years. If they had a certain hobby that doesn't involve the occasional back pain, that's what I let them do. One of my elder sim's last painting was a portrait of his granddaughter before Grim came along. Said granddaughter was devastated, since they had the highest relationship they could.

[SpiritedTreasure]

I played with Buster and Bessy Clavel for a long time. I let them do whatever they wanted -s-
I kicked their thieving son out and cheated them some money so they could have a nice retirement. -s-

They are elderly when you start a new game.

I wish elderly were not so bent over.. It's ugly.

[loveSims]

@Janna, you can build your elders a nice little home in the backyard, with one bedroom, a bathroom and combined kitchen amd livingroom. They can have their own little garden too. You don't have to put a fondation down, you can build it just with walls. It is what I do.