Looking after senior citizens
Recently, one of our colleagues tells us, an elderly lady accidentally fell down some steps in her home in the city where she lives with her children and grandchildren. She was not hurt badly but in view of her age (she is over 80), she was kept for observation overnight at the hospital.

As required by law, the hospital informed the relevant police station about the incident, and shortly thereafter the family was contacted by an officer of the law who asked about the circumstances of the mishap. One of the questions they were asked puzzled the family, until they realised the implications of what it meant. The question was whether the house was registered in the senior citizen’s name.