In an audience at the Vatican this morning, Pope Francis received a group of grandparents and grandchildren, to whom he highlighted the importance of love between generations and of valuing and caring for the elderly in families, without excluding them.
“The elderly should not be left alone, they should live as a family, in a community, with the affection of everyone. And if they cannot live as a family, we must go find them and be close to them. Let’s think for a moment: isn’t a world in which no one is afraid to end their days alone much better? “Clearly yes,” indicated this April 27 to the participants the meeting “The caress and the smile” promoted by the Età Grande Foundation.
In this sense, the Pontiff urged to build a world together, where not only assistance programs are developed, but also “different projects of existence, in which the years that pass are not considered a loss that diminishes someone, but rather a good that grows and enriches everyone: and as such they are appreciated and not feared.”