HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE AGED PERSONS: ARE WE GETTING LATE TO ENFORCE THEIR RIGHTS?

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  • Dr. S. K. Singh .. ..

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„…..oh heavens. If you do love old men…. …If you yourselves are old. Make it your cause……..”
- Shakespeare
No human being likes solitude. There is an intrinsic tendency to look upon the aged individuals as one who has lived out just about all of his life with merely vegetative needs and no real hunger for recognition or identity. The feeling of being unwanted, beyond the prime, past one‟s usefulness all these weigh heavily upon the ageing. The economic needs of foods, shelter and clothing of the aged are modest. In most cases the resources of the aged are negligible, having been consumed in toto in the bringing up of their children. Most aged silently pray for an early end of their lives.

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