In a country like India where we feel proud of our culture, tradition and treat our elders as Godly,now the days turned topsy turvy and the present Scenario is increasing number of old age homes, and the immates because of the negligence of the children towards their parents.
In the western world, improved health and longevity have changed the definition of what it means to be elderly. Does India live up to its old traditions?India is a land where age and wisdom are traditionally respected. But improved longevity is challenging age old assumptions
The old feel isolated and uncared for as India greys. An agonizing life crisis grips families as the younger generation struggles to look after ageing parents. New adjustments and equations are being forged, but the disquiet remains.
Old people have limited regenerative abilities and are more prone to disease, syndromes, and sickness than other adults. For the biology of ageing, see senescence. The medical study of the aging process is gerontology, and the study of diseases that afflict the elderly is geriatrics the old people are no one else then we people.
Today we are young; there will be a time, when very soon even we will be old. No one can escape this truth of Life Cycle and everyone has to face it. Y not help old people, because when we were infants and young, there was a time, when they helped us to each and every extent.
