Parenting parents
The HinduSleepless nights, changing diapers, nebulisation, giving medicines at odd hours, helping with walks, comparing notes with people who with similar experiences… all are back after two decades. As he cuddles himself when sleeping, the skin gone so soft that even the roughness of the bed-sheet can create sores, takes time to understand your simple instructions for opening his mouth, looks with vacuous eyes when unable to remember things, gets irritated and just refuses to follow instructions, one cannot but think of a baby. As the birth rate gets lower and the life expectancy higher, the number of elderly is bound to grow; but we do not have the support structure for this huge population. People don’t even realise that the elderly and younger adults are not the same, but are as different as a child is from an adult. It’s high time society and the system as a whole got concerned about its elderly citizenry.
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