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The increasing number of senior citizens entering into shelters and old houses is indicating the alarming situation that we have broken our family unit and the masses have lost their patience to accommodate the elders.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Oct, 2018 ) :The increasing number of senior citizens entering into shelters and old houses is indicating the alarming situation that we have broken our family unit and the masses have lost their patience to accommodate the elders.

Sharing the sad stories of their life that how they had pulled out from the home by their children and siblings, the people living in Islamabad based old houses stated that they were passing their lives with old memories.

Falak Naz worked hard as a domestic worker throughout life to feed her family.

Unfortunately, her own husband refused to keep her at home as she turned old and weaker in health.

She still wishes her family to come and take her to home.

A resident of Khanna pul area, the 64 years old woman has been living in the public old home at Shehzad town in Islamabad for the last five months.

She came here after a brawl with her husband over the matrimonial issue of her daughter.

Her husband and eldest son beaten her and forced her to leave the house. I could not let my husband fix my daughter's wedding with an addict. Do I have not any right over my children's life after sacrificing all of my life for them she complained? Similarly, another 70 years old woman Naseema Bibi belongs to a well off family a resident of capital was living here since 2014.

She said that her life got changed soon after her husband's death due to cardiac arrest. Behavior of my son and his wife transformed after my husband's death.

My son obeys and loves me a lot but he is compelled to keep me here due to her wife she said.

Naseema bibi revealed that her daughter in law assumes that i am contagious and afraid for her children health.

Another 72 years old Zaitoon Bibi resides in shelter along with her 45 years old daughter Shabana. Before coming here i was living with my son and his family, she said. Then one day Shabana left her home and started living with us permanently as her husband had divorced her, she said.

"I did not want to leave my house where I spent 50 years of my life but one year ago my son took us here" she said. I yearn to see my son and his children but he does not answer our calls despite of many attempts she said while tears rolled down on her cheeks.

My son was murdered and my wife could not bear his untimely demise and lost her life as well, another 80 years old inmate Ghulam Muhayiuddin Chughtai stated. My siblings and their children brought me here in 2016 after grabbing all my property and belongings he said.

" I do not want to get my property back as I have no need it anymore," he said.

Dearest and nearest leave us alone when greed blind folds them, a 57 year old multi talented Rashid Ahmed said who came here 2 months ago.

"I had been an excellent cook at Saudi Arabian embassy and had introduced fast food in Islamabad in 1976. I am a skilled tabla player and used to play for many famous singers. I broke my marriage for my own siblings but in my time of need they asked me to leave home" he lamented.

He further stated that I could not believe when my own blood relations said that they cannot afford to feed me as I am of no use due to old age and illness. After living miserable days and nights I finally came here two months ago, he said.

While sharing their concerns, the representative of an old home Saima Khan stated that we need charity as normally old homes are run on donations from philanthropists but here I spend all my own resources to provide basic need to these destitute souls.

No matter how good we take care of them, they still miss their children and relatives. My heart wrenches when I see them craving for their loved ones, she said while taking a deep breath.

Sadia Naveed a senior clinical psychologist commenting on the issue said that, people have become impatient and busy in this modern world, young people do not have time to share concerns of their parents whereas old people do not realize their children compulsions.

There are more women than men in old homes as they experience more anxiety by spending more time in the houses, she said. Children think their ill parents as burden and declare them mentally challenging, she said.

"They think it easier to keep parents in the old homes that is why demand for more old homes is increasing," she added.