Change is law of nature. Meaning of nature. Creation took place after a very very long years that can be not in one lakh years but millions of years, so each second nature changed from molecular level to nano level to cell level to brain level to intellect level to knowledge level to age level that is each year the death age is reducing and life expectancy is going up in tens of years. what is the matter now.
The subject is caring aging parents.Now let us go back to one hundred years, one hundred years back it was all joint family in entire India and question of single family never existed.some how a house means filled with people, in many houses relatives, cousins and own family all lived as one unit, question of you are his daughter or ours never arose, they just thought each belonged to as one unit.
Slowly the senario changed and families parted as there was more brothers who each had dozens of kids and there was no space at all to live in one medium house and there became work place shortage and distant places one had to seek.
All these times caring for aging never took place, aged persons somehow became part of the house and death age of aged used to be under sixty and rare cases some woman lived for 80 years and men lived at best 70 years.
My father died at the age of 58 and I still can remember those who were aged 60 were really considered as candidate for grave yard, and even families discussed on next course to do, if he or she dies suddenly, it was never a shock feel to think the death of those who died in sixties.
caring for aging parents happened in random only say one in one hundred families where one go abroad or live or shift in distant state other than they lived at birth. Now.
Now one can see, cousins aged 80, whom I address singularly, they are called as uncle.
a 90 year old man or woman is called as uncle or aunty, because they groom so well, dress so well, attend all parites and marriage hall, question of caring the aged still not happening. 80 not out, 90 still batting how can you call them aged.
Most of them are so rich, are capable to take care of themselves, only those who are poor, ill fed at early age, and if the poverty strike very hard they are neglected since the earning is not easy to feed them. Rare case hence govt should take care of aged.
if the Govt takes care of aged, they will be usefull for the society, because they are really healthy but aged, prematured aged that is all, nutritous food will rejuvenate them so fast, the old age home or whre ever they live will find they will live another 20 to 30 years. AGED LOVE TV AND IF ADVANCED MOBILE TOO.
If you give them mobile and Tv and soft bed to sit and hot tea or coffee they are good watchmen for the home, and they are good in talking also, any subject they are well versed and kind of
DICTIONERY AND ENCENCLOPYDIA ALL IN ONE at home.
Dont forget them or leave them away from home, todays aging or agile and youth full and capable to live much much longer years than the youngest in the family.
Who knows they may come back to become teen aged to work any thing assigned. Teen tired and aged is watching tv.Today if you chance to visit any home the aged parent is watching the Tv for hours and the teen boy is tired already, he need coffee and eat also but retire to room to sleep even during the day. Youth day sleep, aged day awake.
Families today if you observe in any apartments any where in the world, there there is flock of young aged who open the door and watch the Tv, they love lot of bright light, and they are very good watchmen of the apartments, teen boys and girls just cant do any funny behavior, they will be scolded, since this girl may be his own grand daughter too.
In the coming years there will be world filled with aging people who may reenter into public field to business activity due to shortage of labour in all fields.