Tuesday cont.
One of the major problems of running a home for pensioners
and people who prefer to describe themselves in euphemisms such as older-middle-aged
or younger seventy- plus is that some of them are usually in such good shape
that they outlast what you could refer to as merely pensioners passing through.
They arrive looking forward to a new lease of life and their the optimism fades
quite soon in face of the ennui encountered on a day to day basis confrontation
with other seniors. Life at a home for seniors can be quite humdrum, but it is
not per se lethal, and relatives only too often treat their elders as if they
had parked them somewhere out of the way, safe and sound, but isolated.
