资料题：If the old are let to do as much as they can for themselves（　）。

It is curious how often sympathy for the add and infirm takes a form which actually humiliates them.Their friends, or mere acquaintances wishing to show good will, paw them, sometimes leaning forward to rearrange their neckwear, puling at their shawl, touching their hair or patting their face, things they would never presume to do, unasked, to one of their contemporaries.An equally humiliating habit of many people who are quite unconscious of being rude is totalk about old people in front of them, as if they were not there, discussing their heal, or making playful remarks om the lines of"Well, nurse, has she been a good girl today?"It is now universally accept that children should be encouraged to duo as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles but so few people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their mind and muscle active.With what they believe to be unselfish kindness they perform innumerable services for then that they would be much better left to do, even with a struggle for themselves.Convenient flats, well-run homes, "motherly" visitor, or organized entertainments cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied the need to retain to the end d life human dignity and the respect of one's fellows.