Home for the Elderly at Pashupatinath Kathmandu Nepal
September.2011
Leon Trotsky said, ‘Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man’.
Pashupatinath is the only elderly persons home operated in the Kingdom Nepal. It was established in 1882. Since 1977 it has been operated by the Social Welfare Elderly Home committee. It is home to 230 people who don’t have a home elsewhere.
Documented one countries way of caring for the elderly, mentally challenged and infirmed. Caring for the age is not only a challenge for Nepal, but a universal challenge for all countries.
Cooper’s reportage is at times, raw, emotionally charged and pervading but it is not without humanity. At all times it beckons the question, ‘What more can we do for these people and how can we help’? “Is there a better way’?
Leon Trotsky said, ‘Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man’.
- Little to do except await the next meal taking care not to drink a lot as the toilet is three flights of stairs and across the court-yard
A lone tap allows the daily cleansing activities
The Cracked face is weather beaten like the wall behind ...What have both witnessed
a whale is heard behind the wooden barsAn old lady drifts in and out of this world and hers
