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Film

An Epidemic Of

Loneliness

At the age when they need care and attention, seniors are often left alone

and depressed, writes Deepa Gahlot, showcasing 10 movies that examined
the travails of ageing

While the urban nuclear family has its examined this unfortunate situation of
advantages, it also leaves the elderly loneliness among elders. A pick of ten that
vulnerable to neglect and loneliness. examined the travails of ageing:
As age advances, many retired seniors
find their contemporaries passing away; A Man Called Otto (2022):
their children are busy with careers, the
grandchildren no longer need them, their
health starts declining. At the age when
they need care and attention, they are
often left alone and depressed. It is worse
if they lose a partner, and have nobody
to talk to. It just seems to them as if their
lives are reduced to the wait for death. In
the West, there are retirement homes for
senior citizens, and the trend is catching in Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel, A
India, where traditionally the family was Man Called Ove, was made into a movie in
the caregiver. Is that a practical solution or its original language, Swedish in 2015. A
a cruel one? few years later, Tom Hanks starred in the
Over the years, many films have Hollywood version, A Man Called Otto,

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