Many issues of the elderly are heightened by loneliness and insecurity
Prof (Dr) Shernaz Cama
Sapur Desai had warned in 1948 that "coherent life is disintegrating. The Parsi has left his usual expansive rural habitat in favor of an ever circumscribing urban life... Poverty is growing from year to year. A larger number is getting submerged.” (A Community at the Cross-Road). Tables of the fall in fertility, size of family, physical and psychological issues, accompanying poverty including deficiency of diet and health had been highlighted, while the glaring disparity between those few who were economically and intellectually able and those many that were deprived had all been pointed out in great detail. But Desai’s prediction......