Old Age Homes

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Old age home- a curse or a blessing The people who live the evening of their lives in old age homes unloved and die unmourned. Death comes to them as a great reliever. THOMAS MERTON Increasing life expectancy and demographic changes are causing the absolute number of elderly people to increase. Unfortunately elders who were a blessing of our homes are becoming a liability, a burden. Their advices annoying and their kisses and hugs disgusting. We see the wrinkled faces not their crinkled smiles, we see their graying eyes not the shine illuminating from their eyes on seeing their families, we frown at their hearing impairment but do not remember all the shouting and senseless stories those ears once heard with great affection and attention. We see the frail bodies and proliferating illnesses but cannot see the warmth of their hearts. Imagine the pain of a father who hears his sons and daughters fighting and imposing the responsibility of taking care of their father on each other and eventually deciding on a perfect solution “OLD AGE HOME”. Without the consent of the father, they hand him over to complete strangers believing they will provide him the love and care he needs and deserves during his last years. A white washed room with a bed and bare necessities of life, an old woman who spent her whole life making her children’s needs and happiness the utmost priority of her life waits for her children to grant a visit once or twice a year. Inmates of an old age home are provided with best medical care and maybe more comforts of life than their homes, but what they crave the most is the love of their families the cuddles of their children. Old age homes stand out as the sore thumbs of our society, symbolic of our negligence towards our aged parents. They are a blessing for our selfish hearts and a curse to the forlorn and neglected elders. Not only the
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