Divina Eventide: A home offering loving care, dignified living
Sun, Jan 17 2021
January 17, 2021
Ageing is a biological process. As one grows older, things get bit tough and complicated. Often the elderly find it difficult to cope and invariably come to realise that they need constant attention, care, love and companionship. Perhaps the biggest concern for almost all human beings, especially in the evening of their lives is: What happens next?
Life for the elderly in their sixties or seventies is even more difficult when they find themselves alone and abandoned with no near and dear ones to fall back upon. Given the gradual disintegration of the joint family system and the evolution of the nuclear families, parents who toiled and sacrificed their prime for their family are at wits end as they realise their children are unable to tend for them.
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