The Welfare of the Elderly in Contemporary Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorWamalwa, Joseph Marango
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T12:10:05Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T12:10:05Z
dc.date.issued2000-03-31
dc.description.abstractThe Bukusu tribe of western part of Kenya has a proverb, which says; The older person has the eyes of a hawk. This proverb implies that an old person is valuable thanks to having a lot of experience in life and a wide spectrum of knowledge that can benefit the society a great deal. It reminds me of my grandmother who died at the age of eighty-four. She was not getting tired of advising me on how to go about with life. She was fond of instructing me to be charitable and to respect the people whom I interact with. It was her pleasure even to tell me whom to marry and the qualities I should look for. This was a routine whenever I paid her a visit in her hut. In fact I presumed that it was a nuisance. Now she has joined the invisible world and there is no one intimate to impart the wisdom of the sages. I feel ashamed and hollow in that I did not ask many things about our family genealogy. It seems that I was being affected by modem civilisation, which has 'wrong' impression of old age. This is because I did not think that at her advanced age, she was capable of telling me anything in line with our modern life. Elderly people are archives of wisdom that the society may borrow from to advance in social justice. Therefore, their welfare should be taken into account. In African society, the aged had social responsibilities in the extended family and in the community or nation as a whole depending on who they were. Their needs were catered for in all ways. These days, they are being forgotten in social life as well as in economic life. We have to admit that we are doing a disservice to this vulnerable group which can give us incredible insights about life. I can not generalise that all is unwell in all families. But in one way or another, the aged are being excluded from contributing whatever they may wish to give to the community due the mobility of people's to different places. Therefore, in order to restore the glory of our elderly relatives, we have to put their needs on our agenda. In this paper we are going to see what the problem is, how it is a problem and how we can address this problem to make the lives of the elderly decent, beneficial and useful.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/624
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectWelfareen_US
dc.subjectElderly in Contemporary Kenyaen_US
dc.subjectOld in Traditional African Societyen_US
dc.subjectRoles of the Elderlyen_US
dc.subjectImpact of Modernisationen_US
dc.subjectHomes for the Ageden_US
dc.subjectChurch and the Elderlyen_US
dc.titleThe Welfare of the Elderly in Contemporary Kenyaen_US
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