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.

In a thinly populated country such as Finland people can have considerable distance to their neighbors, relatives and healthcare and other services. Different kinds of technological solutions have been developed to counter the problem of distance in senior care. Remote doctor's appointment through the internet is already a day to day reality in many corners of the world. As the future tendency in the field of senior care is to prefer home care over institutions and according to many surveys, people would rather stay in homely set ups than for example in hospitals or senior institutions in their old age, the technological solutions, such as alarm button, automatic distribution of medicines and electronic prescription will be more and more in need.

However, these technological advancements, as much as they are helpful, can't replace the human need for social interaction and connections. In that sense the bonds between the relatives and different generations still do matter, even if the idea of extended family with tight social relations has faded away long time ago in western world. And technology can actually help in creating and up keeping of these family relations, as the mobile phones and other electronic devices connected to internet are ubiquitous these days. One phone call can actually cheer up and in that way increase also general health of an individual person.

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