The handcuffs and chain ankle bracelets are missing. Yet this is unlike prison. Many parents are behind bars in some far away forgotten place. They cannot see, hold or love their children. To a senior, confinement is often the restrictions of an older body.
Stairs can be difficult or impossible.
Being a senior may feel like prison, but it is nothing like sharing a cellblock with twenty other inmates day in and day out for the rest of your life. Being a senior is not like the confinements of prison. It is not like looking out through prison bars watching the world go by. Being in prison is not like sitting in a park, watering houseplants, living in a small apartment or care facility. The professional locked in the corporate battle working long stressful hours may feel confined.