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As a member of NSS (National Service Scheme) Club, you were taken to an Old Age Home on a field trip. Your interaction with the inmates made you realize that despite all the facilities, they were lonely with out the love and affection of their family. Write a letter to the Editor of ‘Times of India’ New Delhi, expressing your shock at this new trend of sending parents to old age homes and the need to instil love for the elders into the people. You can make use of the hints given below: • Generation gaps in opinions and ideologies • Preference of nuclear families over joint family • Elders feel neglected and unwanted in their own family. • Most of the elders live with a lack of love and affection from their family in Old Age Homes​

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As a member of NSS (National Service Scheme) Club, you were taken to an Old Age Home on a field trip. Your interaction with the inmates made you realize that despite all the facilities, they were lonely with out the love and affection of their family. Write a letter to the Editor of ‘Times of India’ New Delhi, expressing your shock at this new trend of sending parents to old age homes and the need to instil love for the elders into the people. You can make use of the hints given below: • Generation gaps in opinions and ideologies • Preference of nuclear families over joint family • Elders feel neglected and unwanted in their own family. • Most of the elders live with a lack of love and affection from their family in Old Age Homes