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Let's be kinder to the elderly and step up our duty of care

President William Ruto meets Field Marshall Muthoni, the Wife of General Stanley Mathenge at State Lodge Sagana, where they spent the colonial days fighting the British. [PCS]

Two stories, both tragic, about the plight of the aged and ageing caught my attention this week.

The first was a BBC expose on the ill treatment of old people in one of the old people's homes in the outskirts of Nairobi.

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