Senior Citizens are invaluable to society because of their experience knowledge and rational approach to problem solving. Most of the highly regarded members of society, be it politicians, educationists, doctors, business people or leaders from any walk of life are undoubtedly senior citizens. Seniors should realise that just crossing a chronological mark does not mean retirement from life. In fact, they should volunteer to make their experience available to society. This could be for a social cause or for individual benefit, but the end result is that everyone will be benefited.
Society tends to think of the older person as out-dated.
We should instead tap the potential and experience of the seniors and put them to good use. Their families, the Govenrment and soceity at large should provide them employment opportunities, set up trusts to create such opportunities and establish a social security system whereby the seniors become financially independent. It is believed that now only 60 percent of senior citizens live in joint families. The rest of them live alone with their spouse, with distant relatives or in old age homes. There are many reasons for this.