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Swimming against the tide, the country’s first black-owned adult day care centre says it is recording growing interest from Batswana, who have traditionally balked at the idea of sending their elders to old people’s homes. Mmegi Correspondent, DUMISANI NCUBE reports

Chawa Enyatseng, an expert in home-based care, has noted a curious trend.  The clientele who utilise her There4U adult day care centre in Extension 12 are becoming more diverse. Most of the clients who have walked through the doors since its establishment in 2014 have been whites or Asians.  Blacks on the other hand, have been a rarity.

Culturally, Batswana are not known for taking their elders to hospices, retirement villages, old age people’s homes or ‘adult day care centre’.  The family unit takes care of its elders and in many cases, they retire to the cattle post and village, visited regularly by their grandchildren.

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