Senior citizens, old people, in Delhi are a tortured lot.They are mostly humiliated and abused by their relatives as per a recent study made by the Help Age India. Children have grown and many of them are working in other cities. The parents are isolated. Some of them never goes out. Gradually they feel that their existence has no meaning and and die several times before actual death.
Most of the parents are ignored by their children after some time. They stay separately. In big cities like Delhi you can read news every day about senior citizens being killed money, jewellery etc. There are no safeguards.
In some families the elderly people are beaten and physically and mentally abused. There is nobody to help them. Even when complained to the police, the latter don’t take any action. The old people are a vulnerable lot. The study shows that the parents are abused both by sons and daughter-in-laws. If son and daughter don’t care, then who will care?
An effective system to care for the aged should be there. Whether the Government will do anything in this matter?