The Elderly: "Living and Partly Living"

to how more could be done, before old age, and indeed before retirement, to develop interests and skills which may stand their possessor in good stead later. Most important for many is the feeling of being wanted and loved by someone: and naturally by one's children, if one has them. But one of today's tragedies is the difficulty middle-aged or younger people have in feeling, or at least in displaying, affection for their own parents. Visitors from abroad, e.g. India, are profoundly shocked by the apparent neglect: which is so different from their own standards. It is also very different from the standards the old people themselves