Rising number of old age homes in India

Courier guy said the parcel is on the way, near the gate he comes and asks “ cloud circle apartment opposite shanti old age home ?”  yes comes the answer from the security guard ,now the question is not what the parcel was but has old age homes become a landmark ?  Have we taken our lives to a variegated state inculcating the bitter trend of old age loneliness? It is true that we all are busy ,everyone is trying to survive a hard life , more work and the same pay ,time spent on studies is more than that of sleeping , but at the end of the  day when you are down to yourself ,when your thoughts and moral ask you” have you done what is required to keep your creators happy ? “Since there is rapid shoot in the number of old age homes compared to the 80’s and 90 ‘s we can say the answer is NO for many. Everyone has excuses and reasons to blame but they don’t answer the responsibility one has to live with , life defines certain responsibilities from the very first stage of its cycle, like two bodies mate and have a sibling here one is responsible to the other ,they provide the new comer with food, shelter , love and knowledge required to be independent  and start a living .Now after this phase, begins the reversal where the young blood has to protect the creators .

As mentioned before life is a cycle. This phase of life is when one thinks that he rules the world, when fantasy covers up reality .This phase represents a person twenties .Some have lust and love in their top of priorities . Wrong decisions taken at this phase can also be a cause to rising number of old age homes. Like a son or daughter elopes when their parents oppose their relationship and the parents lay stranded at a later stage with nowhere to go. But if the families are well off then they can survive this situation but just financially not 100 % mentally .It’s time to take sensible decisions as to make human lives better and satisfying.  After all happiness and smiles all around are any day better than sorrow and sadness.

 Similarly when the cycle is traversed a bit more a mature and helpless stage comes .This is when a person in his fifties. The phase where one is in the last lap to save as much as he can into his bank account. An ailing mother or father can become a major source of expenditure like unexpected checkups and hospital visits. This is another situation that makes a person leave his responsibility apart as a son or daughter. At this stage if you are able to support your parents being in a retirement resort then they will be taken care of. Retirement resorts are old age homes that charge more guaranteeing luxury but for a common man it is finally old age home .Even at a retirement resort they might not be happy because physical presence and love are not units like rupee and dollars .

Now when we enter 2013 , there is another staggering fact that Kerala is the state with maximum number of old age homes overtaking metropolitan cities and cities with larger population .Leaving behind this shame like an year that passed by lets welcome 2013 with duties and responsibilities which we are bound to take up as a good citizen and also as a good human being