Family connections do matter

As our parents, grandparents and other loved ones get older, the roles of the giving and receiving care will turn upside down. These aging senior relatives often live some distance away, but we still try to make our best to help them in their old age, even if the day to day life will place its challenges for taking care of them. In western world the senior care has been mostly taken over by the state and the society, but despite the advanced systems of elderly care, senior people still do need help from their younger relatives. Especially experiences of loneliness and being set aside from the society are the problems that seniors face and in which relatives are in the key position.