Wednesday, January 28, 2009

(in the) Care of the Elderly


The media are consistently unfair to old people. If one were to believe the usual reporting - all old people, without jobs or children to care for, roam the streets causing trouble; loaf about enjoying final-salary pensions, or stagger from one holiday destination to the next. This is of course most unfair to the many old people who have been rescued from a life of pointless leisure by being given socially useful tasks to perform. Here is one such person who we will call "dad" to protect his anonymity, busy decorating my attic! Photo of "Grandpa" by Doris, aged 3.

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