{"id":38197,"date":"2019-06-03T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africagiant.org\/?p=38197"},"modified":"2019-06-03T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:00:06","slug":"why-old-peoples-home-may-never-flourish-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/?p=38197","title":{"rendered":"Why Old Peoples Home May Never Flourish In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-bizpanda-sociallocker onp-locker-block\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Old people\u2019s home is alien to virtually all indigenous communities in Africa. It does not flourish in Nigeria and may never. Despite the intrusion of western values, the idea has remained unpopular. Going by African cosmology, no child should contemplate retiring his aged parents to the so called old people\u2019s home. Children are required by tradition to take full charge of the care of their aged parents. Even if the children were incapacitated by circumstances, there was no room for such a home as there were layers of relatives whose homes were alternative places of refuge. (Except in cases of insanity which they may lack the capacity to deal with). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncare of the aged was also a corollary of preventive healthcare. Virtually every\nindigenous group in Nigeria acknowledged the vulnerability of the aged. Without\nproper care, they would be exposed to malnutrition, accidents, destitution,\ndepression and opportunistic diseases. This is an area of strength in the\nindigenous system and, perhaps, one of the most successful aspects of its\npreventive healthcare practices. The government has had little challenges in\nhousing the aged because the traditional order has proven very adequate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am eager to lean how the aged are cared for in different communities.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old people\u2019s home is alien to virtually all indigenous communities in Africa. 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