OLD AGE HOME

We all passes through certain stages of life. Like infant, childhood , adulthood and old age. Old age is the most crucial age, because and old person becomes similar to a child and needs a lot of care and affection.

In India we always had joint family concept. In joint family concept people used to live together with their children and their own parents. Older people used to take care of and were responsible for teaching moral values to the younger children of the house. They used to spend last years of their life enjoying with their grand children in peace and comfort. Seeking blessings of older members of the family was always welcome.

But nowadays, because of growing urbanization the concept of joint family is loosing its identity. People are moving to different cities or to countries leaving behind there older parents.

Older members are ignored and are left behind on their fate. To combat their loneliness and in search of someone who can support them at the time of need older people are nowadays heading towards old age homes.

In old age home they are taken care of and are given proper medical facilities too. There are recreational activities also which help them to combat with their sadness and loneliness.

It is very sad to see, that the parents who have raised their children with so much hope, love and affection are left alone in the most difficult time of their life, when they needed the helping hand of their children the most.

Young generation needs to understand and learn the value of empathy.They should be grateful towards their parents for making them capable enough to lead their lives successfully. They should not run away instead should come forward to help all those old people who need them for the sake of humanity.

We should always remember that old age is inevitable. We would also not like to be dumped, when we are old . So, we should take care of the older members of our families because they have also taken care of us when we were children.