By R.S. Krishnaswamy
Nineteen years ago, I made a trip to Chennai to see my uncle R.K. Narayan, even though the doctors had specified 4 or 5 days for him to live. He was ever fresh and very “alive” ! at an age of 95. He took a good look at me and said in Tamil, “You don’t have any BP problems, you don’t have any sugar complaints, you don’t have any cardiac problems, and like me you are keeping up a 5 km walk every day. Apart from all these plus points, I would still advise you to watch out. DO NOT EVER FALL because it’s the “FALL” which creates more than 50 percent of the aged people to stay in bed. There are terrible possibilities for an old man’s fall. But the modern builders have inculcated light steel tubular rods in most bathrooms and also attached to all the important positions of the bathroom.
