Increasing mobility and socialization make the lives
of our seniors more meaningful
Pervin Dadachanji
My mother is 87 years old. She lives alone with only a helper who comes in for a couple of hours every day. She has a thriving sudreh stitching business where people are constantly coming to her home to give orders, have their measurements taken and to collect the stitched sudrehs. She is active, goes to the bazaar on her own, perhaps twice a week to pick up her daily essentials and often even gets some fresh fish for me (this was a daily occurrence until Covid-19 hit). Of course her never-say-die spirit and glass always full to the brim......