From his wheelchair(轮椅), Alberto Delgado Londoño can see over the wall of the sunlit courtyard towards the mountains east of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. The 74-year-old lives in a care home for destitute(赤贫的，一无所有的) elderly people, which opened at the end of last year.
坐在轮椅上，阿尔贝托·德尔加多·隆多尼奥可以越过洒满阳光的庭院围墙，望见哥伦比亚首都波哥大以东的群山。这位74岁的老人住在一家收容贫困老人的养老院，该院于去年年底开业。
Social workers found him in hospital, where he was being treated for throat cancer and a head injury that left him partly paralysed(瘫痪的，麻痹的). “I had nowhere to go,” he says. “My daughter couldn’t take me in because she’s a single mother, she already has two children.”
社会工作者是在医院里找到他的，当时他正在那里接受喉癌和头部创伤的治疗，那处伤使他部分瘫痪。“我无处可去，”他说，“我女儿没法收留我，因为她是单亲妈妈，已经有两个孩子了。”
Delgado Londoño is one of a growing number of Bogotanos(波哥大人) with nowhere to turn(无处求助) in old age – an estimated 1,100 elderly people in the city are homeless, without families to care for them. To reach this vulnerable(脆弱的，易受伤害的) group, Bogotá unveil(公布，揭幕)ed a plan last year to integrate its social care and health systems.
德尔加多·隆多尼奥只是越来越多在晚年无处求助的波哥大人之一——据估计，该市有1100名老人无家可归，没有家人照料。为了触及这一弱势群体，波哥大去年公布了一项计划，将社会照护与医疗系统整合起来。