I was driving in my car listening to an advertisement for a Retirement Home. I have to say that it did not fill me with any great excitement! Mention of a Frail Care Centre as well as a pool in the complex hardly makes one think that one has great times to look forward to. I have felt, since a young age, that the elderly are really neglected and I certainly hope that our generation, or at least the one before me, becomes more demanding and puts up with less of the abuse that, for example, we have seen over the years on Carte Blanche on hidden camera footage, where the elderly at one home were being beaten and abused by people that were meant to be looking after them, that even when there is a radio station that specifically targets the elderly, it only has a medium wave signal. Sadly, for many, apart from maybe Mother’s Day and Christmas Day, when sometimes their families remember them, there are a large number of elderly people who live lives of total neglect in sub-standard facilities.