Increase in the number of old age homes – a big problem that Indian society is facing in the present times. Why are they increasing so rapidly? Are people at old age homes comfortable and happy with new set of old friends there? Were they brought to such ‘refuge centres’ with their permission? Can old age homes be the best substitute of homes even if old people are willing to go there? A lot of topics that need serious discussion right now. Government is providing monetary help to numerous such institutions also. A few such homes are initiated by government itself to provide help, shelter and food for such homeless and unfortunate people. It’s really nice to keep elder citizens of our country to help so. But is it the right solution? Why can’t steps be introduced to reduce the increasing number of such helpless people there? Why can’t we search for its root causes? Why more people are dumped to such old age homes, giving a little monetary help or in most occasions, without that?

It’s the part of our Indian tradition to respect elders. Our gurus have taught us to see our parents before God because it is through our parents we see the whole world and God. Then why at the last phase of their life, kids send them mercilessly to old age homes? I feel that in most cases, what parents need in the last phase of their life are food, shelter, medicine and a little care and love. But in most cases, personal drifts results in such old age homes and breaking up of relations forever. No doubt, in the present times people have become robots who think more with their brain than hearts. Corporate world has already dried up the hidden emotions inside one’s heart and growing distance and generation gaps bring up many problems that have never existed a few decades or one century back. Now no one is even willing to adjust or forgive even the dear one’s mistakes. People have become so selfish that their eyes have become blind to see the hearts of those old people who have spend the youth phase of their life solely to bring up their kids, forgetting their desires and fortunes.

What I have noticed is that very often, parents never show their emotions freely. To bring up kids in good principles, they become strict and punish them severely. It may help kids to become good citizens, but very often it builds an invisible wall between parents and kids, that may explode at any time in future. Similarly, daughter-in-laws are ill treated, for dowry or for some other matters and in most Indian homes of our present society, parents never try to build a new relationship with their daughter-in-laws. In such cases too, drifts do happen. If situation arises, such drifts and indifferences may lead to dump those old parents in old age homes. Instead if, from both sides, relations are cultivated in a proper way, the invisible wall will slowly disappear and it can, up to some extent, reduce the old age homes of our country. Also, treat your parents in a good way neglecting all their ill treats so that your kids never learn bad lessons from you and dump you in some old age in your distant future. It's to be noted that it's not for the lack of money or care that maximum old parents are being send to old age homes.            

Article Posted By : Sandhya Rani  On June 20, 2013lView All Articles

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