Who Will Care for Your Parents?

There are many parents here living all alone in Mumbai, India. Their children have gone abroad for green pastures. This has lead to many murders, thefts etc. of Sr.Citizen in Mumbai. These Sr.Citizen do not wish to go abroad with their children as they are more attached to their home land. Police is now taking special care of them but they can not be protected individually. They are soft targets for criminals.God save such unfortunate parents.

Suresh Sharma.

Regads.

Though all the comments are good enough, but I am reffering yours as In Pakistan mostly the same conditions exist. In rural areas where jobs are rare & land has squeezed due to new colonies children have gone abroad & left behind their parents due to tight conditions for migration of dependents or their own will as most of them consider them as burden & their critics.

New generation [as we call our kins] has forgot the norms of their society, culture and religion [and we ourselves are also in our time].

I am aware of our Muslims that God places the rights of parents just after His Own.

And I am sure that no other religion has any different orders for their believers.

The so called illiterates are more abiding to social norms than the HI-educated persons.

Once one of the effectee old man said: "Our children can't keep the parent though they are free security-guards for them in their absence."

It is a common talk of "Geration Gap". I call it a "Generated Gap"

May God bless us all.

Well said, Ron.

Our parents looked after us when we were ankle-snappers, so we have a moral obligation to look after them in their elder years. Sadly that's not always possible (kids die first etc), so , as you point out, Healthbots do have the potential to be a huge benefit. Even where children are able to directly care for aging parents, Healthbots could provide assistance.

At a slight tangent, Mrs K has a very eldely relative. Although the old lady lives with family, it's the pets that make a huge difference. Cats and Dogs can be devoted companions 24/7. When the younger family are getting on with household chores etc, a pet can help the elderly feel less neglected (ie if confined to a chair or such). Mrs K's relative has plenty of human company, but I'm sure it's the pets that keep her going more than anything else. On the odd occasions when there's nobody else in the house, I could imagine a Healthbot playing a part in helping look after her, and I don't think she would mind.

What makes one happy entirely depends on self. Me & my wife are happy that we took care of my mother till her death at 87. I brought-up my sons occasionally sending them to old age homes doing free service. One should have the pleasure of serving old and needy. I definitely not hoping that they will take care of me and my wife when we get old, but the society around them may need them! Instead of robos simple gadgets with human touch will be more helpful.

I trained my dog to pull my wheelchair bound dad around. They were quite a team. Hiring help was a nightmare so I guess I would have to say that if this healthbot could be programmed for specific monitoring tasks (movement, falling etc) then it would address those ailments specific to the health problem of the individual. In my dads case I don't know whether it would have been possible to monitor the micro-strokes that eventually took his mind and his life.

we claim that our society (on the whole) has improved but when discussions like thi sarise then it is clear that they have not. The only thing people seem to be interested in today is in making money and passing on the responsibility of care for the eldery to others - it outsourcing gone

It is not the poverty of money but of Mind-set. Have you ever been in un-developed areas of the world?

luxury ? Can the lower-status of it is satisfied with his conditions? Is he not looking the upper-class? And who knows if the topmost is satisfied & not greedy for next above?

Where will it end?

All you need is the life within your means. And you can keep yours with you within the same resources in which you are not satisfied yourself.

Try to change the way of thinking & all the satisfaction of life will be with you.

And you will be the MOST SATISFIED PERSON.

Have a fine day with new looks to life!!!!

May God Bless the Human Society !!!!!

Hajee......My position is simply this........for some (myself included) it is impossible to stop working in order to take care of the elderly 24 hrs a day. It would be irresponsible of me to do so and would create insurmountable hardship on my family. So, I do what is possible with what is available and in the best way that I can. Anything that could assist in this endeavour would have been greatly appreciated. As it is with our system in Canada we had nurses that came to the house to check on my fathers health. Many elderly here have a huge infrastructure available to them that ranges from periodical checkups, housecleaning and to having cooked food delivered (again, it's free..or rather the infrastructure is supported by the taxes we, the working, pay).

Oh, and yes.......thanks to some selfless people I happened to be working with there are now fresh water wells for some villages and towns in Bolivia, Peru and N. Africa.

As to being a most satisfied person ........ are you?

Of course the human-limitations are there, but are these only for old parents or also for your kids ?

My dear I quite understand your view, if we accept the fact that you have lot of responsibillities 7 there is no person in this world who is FULLY satisfied & can never be.

It is the way that you try to do to your capabillities that is ultimate & how you set the priorities.

" If you have half a loaf of bread & you all eat out of it, no one will complain"

English is not my mother tongue & I cannot put all I have in my mind; and even I cannot in my mother tongue.

Have a fine day !!!!!

Hajee Saheb,

Even though people in un-developed countries manage to live with limited source of income but they have their own values for their cultures. You will find them more contended and there is smile on their faces.

Suresh Sharma.

Dear subscribers!

Animals don't make family so no Society of Animals.

Family makes RELATIONS, HOMEs & SOCIETY which results HUMAN SOCIETY.

On the other hand:

FRIENDS neither make FAMILY NOR IT CAN SUSTAIN A SOCIETY.

The vast range of tasks needed for care giving and the motor, intellectual skills needed make it very difficult for a robot to be called a "health worker".

There are a few specialized machines and devices that will help some people but I don't see a flood of robot care giver anytime soon. The care responsability is still on the family / society.

The best candidate in the near future is a robotic pet that will take care of itself even when his forgetful owner forget about it. It will need to emulate a dog or cat personality (or better a horse's which has the best of both) in order to be appealing. This pet should stimulate physical and mental exercise by requesting play and walks. It could even talk and ask questions about various subjects of interest to the owner.

I could see this "pet" having some security built in with the capacity to phone for help if its sensors detect a problem with the owner.

Other than this, adapted environment will be in high demand for the autonomous and semi-autonomous people.

And I bet IT WILL NOT BE A HUMAN SOCIETY!

Mr Haajee,

It might be difficult for you to understand but I will (probably) not live with my children when I grow old. They have their own lives and don't need the extra burden. This independance should keep me healtier for longer than if I sit at my kinds' home waiting for the next meal.

I intend to help them as a grand father as much as I can from my own home. Eventually, I will have to rely on health care services to keep me confortable. I hope that at this point, I will be able to decide if life is worth living and act upon it. I don't intend to wait for "natural" death to release me from my miseries. Our health care system is geared to extend life weather there is quality in it or not.

Dear Marcot,

Your statement "I hope that at this point, I will be able to decide if life is worth living and act upon it. I don't intend to wait for "natural" death to release me from my miseries. Our health care system is geared to extend life weather there is quality in it or not." is rather shocking.

Do you mean that one day you may commit a suicide?.If so then it is like committing sin. Please never think in these terms.May God give you wisdom.