Athulya Assisted Living

Nobody likes loneliness. And for seniors, loneliness can become too painful. They find their children and grandchildren busy in their own work and it seems there is nobody in the whole world to take care of them. Moreover, attending funerals of their beloved ones makes them feel worse. Their loneliness gradually makes them enter a state of depression. They feel the need for making friends and friendship is the only medicine for them at this stage. It is not that the more number of friends they make, the happier they become. Rather, they want to optimize their friendship and befriend selected people. Friendships at this stage happen following the theory of emotional selectivity. They tend to lose ties with friends showing superficial emotions and instead prefer those with whom they can form strong ties of friendship. The activities of daily living also tend to change with age. They find difficulty in performing their basic tasks and need someone to assist them. Of course, they