Twilight Villa, the safe shelter for Myanmar’s abandoned elderly

My best friend: A resident of the Twilight Villa nursing home showing a visitor her doll which she described as her companion. — AFP

YANGON: Paralysed on one side by a stroke and barely able to speak, Tin Hlaing was left to die at the side of a road – by her own children.

The 75-year-old only survived because a stranger took pity on her as she lay in the street and brought her to the “Twilight Villa” nursing home on the edge of Yangon.