Prisoner

Description

Elderly population is large in general. These people are faced with numerous physical, psychological and social role changes that challenge their sense of self and capacity to live happily. Many people experience loneliness and depression in old age, either as a result of living alone or due to lack of close family ties and reduced connections with their culture of origin, which results in an inability to actively participate in the community activities. With advancing age, it is inevitable that people lose connection with their friendship networks and that they find it more difficult to initiate new friendships and to belong to new networks. These people face elder abuse all the time throughout their old age irrespective of their financial or social status, health condition and role in their respective family. When these people turn old, they truly live their life as a prisoner, for a crime they didn’t

Size: 65 x 95cm