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

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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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