Nowadays some older people choose to live in retirement communities and centres with other people

You should spend about 40 minutes on IELTS writing task 2.

Nowadays some older people choose to live in retirement communities and centres with other people, rather than living with their adult children. What is the reason for this and what are the solutions for this?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words.

Sample Answer

Senior citizens are subjected to various distressing situations in modern times in their own homes. Owing to this, some elderlies want to be shifted to old age shelters and retirement rooms. In the following paragraphs, I shall elucidate the causes of such events and the recuperative measures that could be taken to address this issue.

Senior citizens have been time and again seen undergoing harrowing experiences to varying extents, and such occurrences are exacerbating even more during the current times. First of all, owing to the intensifying competition among the people today, people are too entangled in their daily survival manoeuvres to take care of the senior family members, due to which they are left bereft and unnoticed. Generally, they are not even kept properly in their comfort, thereby driving them to look out for a safe and calm abode. In addition to that, the brouhaha and hoopla of the younger generation often perturb them to an unbearable extent as we fail to understand that the old ears are too sensitive for the pandemonium. Moreover, this pattern generally leads to a rift between the oldies and the younger family members. Other than that, senior citizens are often treated as scapegoats for extortion of the properties and their capitals, owing to which they are seen in torments and agony. All such incidents and practices amount to older people looking around for a harmonious haven.

Talking about the solutions to help this cause, first of all, we should realize that old people are immensely vulnerable and sensitive in all aspects. They are physically frail, emotionally debilitated, and mentally feeble, and in such a scenario, it is all the more essential for all of us to realize that we have to handle them with care and affection. Secondly, we should cut down on our daily schedule to impart that to the older people as nobody is or shouldn’t be too busy to take care of our family members. This is all that every nuance of human existence converges on. Moreover, we should try our level best to engage ourselves in healthy and placid conversations with them, ensuring without fail that they are kept apart from the hubbub and tremors of their daily lives as they have had a lot all their life and now is the time, where they should be put at ease and harmony. And, most importantly, we shouldn’t let the thought of humanity and morality slip out of our minds and should understand the values of a true human being. All such solutions would make the older people feel loved and wanted, and they won’t look around for another alternative to survive. Without the senior members, there is no true sense of a family.

Conclusively we may say that it could seem to be quite tough for us to keep hold of the well- being of our senior members owing to the daily dynamics and routine manoeuvres. However, it is possible and should be made possible if not, to ascertain their happiness. The aforementioned solutions would definitely strike-off the feeling in the older people of looking for an old-age home.

Structure of the essay

You were given a cause/solution question essay for which you had to talk about the cause and the solution to the problem.

Once you are clear about the causes & solutions you are going to write about in your essay, you can start planning your essay and then writing it.

Introduction

Senior citizens are subjected to various distressing situations in modern times at their own homes and owing to this, some elderlies want to be shifted to old age shelters and retirement rooms. In the following paragraphs, I shall elucidate the causes of such events and the recuperative measures that could be taken to address this issue.

Body paragraph 1- Causes

• Senior citizens have been time and again seen undergoing harrowing experiences to varying extents these days and such occurrences are exacerbating even more during the current times.

• First of all, owing to the intensifying competition among the people today, people are too entangled in their daily survival manoeuvres to take care of the senior family members due to which they are generally left bereft and unnoticed.

• Generally, they are not even kept properly in their comfort, thereby driving them to look out for a safe and calm abode. In addition to that, the brouhaha and hoopla of the younger generation often perturb them to an unbearable extent as we fail to understand that the old ears are too sensitive for the pandemonium. This pattern generally leads to a rift between the oldies and the younger family members.

• At times senior citizens are often treated as a scapegoat for extortion of the properties and their capitals owing to which they are seen in torments and agony. All such incidents and practices amount to older people looking around for a harmonious haven for them.

Body paragraph 2- Solutions

• First of all, we should realize that old people are immensely vulnerable and sensitive in all aspects. They are physically frail, emotionally debilitated, and mentally feeble and in such a scenario, it is all the more essential for all of us to realize that we have to handle them with care and affection.

• Secondly, we should cut down on our daily schedule to impart that to the older people as nobody is or shouldn’t be too busy to take care of our prime responsibilities to serve our family members as this is  all that every  nuance of human existence converges on.

• We should try our level best to engage ourselves in healthy and placid conversations with them ensuring without fail that they are kept apart from the hubbub and tremors of their daily lives as they have had a lot all their life and now is the time, where they should be put at ease and harmony.

• Most importantly, we shouldn’t let the thought of humanity and morality slip out of our minds and should understand the values of a true human being. All such solutions would make the old people feel loved and wanted and they won’t look around for another alternative to survive. As without the senior members, there is no true sense of a family.

Conclusion

Conclusively we may say that it could seem to be quite tough for us to keep hold of the well-being of our senior members owing to the daily dynamics and routine maneuvers. However, it is possible and should be made possible if not, to ascertain their happiness. The aforementioned solutions would definitely strike off the feeling in the older people of looking for an old-age home.