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Pat Daley, a Salvation Army spokesman and a founder of the now-defunct Neighbourhood Watch, said "Australians are an uncaring society, generally speaking, compared to Asian communities and some European communities," he said.
"They tend to look after their elderly.
It's appalling the way we treat our senior citizens in some situations."
Pat is right, I think in western cultures we all too often associate the elderly as obsolete, that they have somehow passed their usefulness to society and so we ship them off quietly to small little communities we affectionately term "Retirement Villages".