Senior citizens who have kids are not normally accommodated by elderly care centres. Children who know of such conditions weave stories in order to abandon their parents at such centres.
They even pretend to be good Samaritans who found an ailing elderly person, most probably their mother or father, at the bus stand. They then lodge the old person in the elderly-care home.
When such a person recently died in an old age home, people came from his place to see his body. He was a very well-known and helpful person at his place, but none were ready to take him back and attend to his last rites. Finally, authorities had to plead with the visitors to take back the body.
Similar is the case with an old lady who has seven daughters. She had fractured her leg and none of the children wanted to take care of her. Then when they came to know that elderly care centres did not accommodate old people with children, they took the ailing mother and laid her in the bus stand.
They then acted as if they were helping an old injured woman and got her lodged in a centre that takes care of the aged. When the old lady regained her health, she divulged that she had kids. She was sent back with her kids, but they lodged her in another old-care unit, where she died.
The story of Antony
Antony is lodged in the Azheekode elderly care home at Chala. He was abandoned by his children. He had married a lady from another caste and tended to his family well giving importance to principles than being shackled by tradition.
With the death of his wife, his children started going out in search of jobs and they never enquired about him.
Finally, when he succumbed to arthritis, he sold off his property, settled all his debts and got himself enrolled in an old-care unit.