Aging gracefully?

You know, getting old is not fun. My mom has been through the Great Depression in the 1930s. She lived through WWII as an interpreter with the precursor to the CIA. She married a man who served during WWII in the Coast Guard. The Korean War, the Vietnam war, the wild and crazy 1960s, the era of disco, big hair, and Bill Clinton. And she is not aging gracefully. This past week she ran her sitter out of the house. She is probably bipolar, definitely wants to be on her own (which she can no longer), and when you first meet her is kind and genteel and you would never ever expect her to lash out on anyone. And it's no fun leaving your home to be in company of strangers and her adjustment was not smooth because life was so different from what she expected.My prayer is not only that she adjust but that I not have those issues for adjustment.