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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a very important Motion because it seeks to enhance the well being and the health of elderly Kenyans; it will help reduce the numerous financial challenges facing their immediate kin. Just as the free primary education programme, establishing a free nursing unit for the aged in every hospital in all the counties will help to remove the burden from young Kenyans who are tasked with the burden of looking after their old and sick parents. It is sad for young Kenyans who are trying to settle down in life to be burdened by looking after their old and sick parents. It is clearly an understood phenomenon that all old and sick Kenyans live in the rural areas while their care takers in the name of their children work in the urban areas. This takes away from the old and sick Kenya the opportunity of being taken care by the young Kenyans. Due to harsh economic conditions, it is becoming difficulty for the children working in the urban establishments to take with them their old and sick parents. Owing to the urban housing situation where most of the young working Kenyans live in the slums, it is difficult for them to come to urban areas with their old and sick parents to where they work. In various parts of the country, we have many aged persons who are living in rented houses after their retirement. But most of them can no longer afford house rent because they do not have any income generating activities to see them through. It is becoming even worse when these senior citizens fall sick because of the high cost of medication. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, some traditional factors and customs do not allow parents to stay with their daughters who are married. Even though they are financially stable and responsible, to take their old and sick parents to their matrimonial homes is against traditions and customs of some communities. Due to this, we have many old and sick parents who are living miserable life. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, unlike in the developed countries, where we have homes for the elderly, in Kenya we hardly have these kind of homes, where the old and sick can be taken care of."
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