Some senior citizens worry that the cook may be poisoning them
The death of Mumbai businessman Kamalkant Shah and his mother sarla devi allegedly due to arsenic and thallium poisoning highlights the problem faced by senior citizens of finding a suitable cook.
Senior citizens who are 80 years or older cannot cook themselves, yet require food regularly. Their children may keep a cook, yet their enemies may bribe the cook to add poison to the food for slow poisoning. So some paranoid senior citizens refuse to eat the food cooked.
Then the children are forced to terminate the services of the cook.