My cousin has just shifted his parents to old age Home.What do you people think?

first thing which i would do if he is in front of me is slapping his face. Your cousin is totally ungrateful son. What is his problem with his parent? Is he forgot that the parent have raise him and gone through a different kind of difficulties, giving him education so he will be a better person his life etc?!!! The parent should have to let him die when he was still a baby rather than keeping him alive but at the end do this kind of thing which i considered as the most worst thing to do to our parent. He is complaining about no time to take care the parent?! why he can't hire a maid and asked the maid to take care of them. At least the parent still in his house. Like this the parent will feel down and regret for their rest of life to have him even though he is a big person today!

Although in my place house for the aged does appear already there are few families that do put their old folks in there. I guess its not yet accepted in our culture to let their old folks just be placed in home for the aged. But I guess i ts starting to grow as most of these places are getting crowded already. Maybe because of economics they are forced to do so.

It does depend on circumstances, some elderly people are very difficult to care for and sometimes it is in their best interest and safety, on the other side of things some people can't cope with caring for people in the way the elderly need to be cared for...it would be nice if all elderly people could be kept at home and looked after but sometimes it is just not practicle.

Its really bad on part of the children to send their parents to old age homes.Its the duty of children to look after parents in that age.All of us are going to be old one day or the other...when people start realising that this can happen to them by their children hope they change themselves.Its not at all fair bcoz it is the time our parents need lot of care and love.I do understand that parents in their old age behave more sensitively but as childrens,they should possess the tolerance to adjust with parents.

I totally don't agree with this. Yes, I admit that the facilities are pretty good in old aged homes but I can't do that to my parents. I will not bring them there for others to take care of them. It will be a new environment for them; and it they will be forced to adapt again to such condition and ambience. In our country, one cultural pride that I want to share is having close ties with our family members that we usually call family-centeredness. Although I will have my own family in the future, I still want my parents to live in their house which should be near my house too. And I will just hire a caregiver or nurses to take care of them. Bringing them to an aged institution is like a betrayal on their part. I just love my parents. I won't lose them in my sight.

i think that good for em it will help them relax and have memories of there times