“I never knew setting up an old age home in India, can be so lucrative. This is the land of joint families, where elders are cared for at home.”
“Well, there are not many families around – just couples spending their golden years alone.”
“Cultural changes are sweeping the world,” a sigh escaped her lips despite an effort to control it, her thoughts transported to her only, but estranged son.
“This is a different setting. The smartest brains in the country have migrated abroad, and there are no incentives for them to return.”
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This is so thought provoking. There are some old folks even here who need to live in nursing homes due to their state of health, but have no relatives who live in the state where they live. It is so sad. It is as though their loved ones are in another country. There are no easy answers in many cases.
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Earning a livelihood is essential – there is a price to be paid in many cases. And I’m not sure if the children really want to keep the parents. It’s not an easy task in busy lifestyles.
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This is a sad truth that you have brought to my attention. Good use of six sentences!
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Thank you, D.Avery!
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Your six made me really think about my friend from India. She lives near me and her mother is visiting from India. It must be so difficult to not be able to be close all the time.
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Some parents put the interest of their children above their own, and get used to changed realities.
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Your Six saddens me and yet it appears that is the way life is “progressing”. If no culture is immune to this tendency towards “elder abandonment”, then what? The bigger question remains: why are there no incentives?
An always thought provoking Six!
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You are bang on. Why no incentives? The manner in which an economy functions impacts social life in a big way.
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Totally agree.
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Change in how a person acts, reacts and responds to life is one thing. Your Six suggests a change to the paradigm, the world itself.
People may be people no matter what, but change the context in which our ways and habits, our culture develops and then things become very different.
In a sense, the old adage, ‘In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man rules’ is even more true than before.
‘cellent Six. yo
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Thank you, Clark!
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I can’t imagine leaving and not returning. Shallow I know, but real. Great six. Made me think.
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The reasons are too many and complex. But this is happening in developing countries. Thank you!
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