Imagine India a decade ahead: there will be more senior citizens in the country given the improved healthcare and decreasing mortality rates. The average life expectancy has gone up from 20 years (1900) to 64 years in recent times. Add to this the low fertility rates and we have the 60+ age group as one of the fastest growing segments of the population. With 100 million senior citizens now, the numbers will shoot up to 177 million in 2025 and this is set to double in 20 years. Given the fast-paced urban lifestyle with few provisions for needs of the elderly, there is an opportunity to provide good living solutions for the senior population by being sensitive to their requirements.

In the West, a wide range of retirement living solutions have been available for over five decades, while in India the need for creating ‘special’ spaces for seniors has had an emotional and psychological barrier. Indians pride themselves on their close-knit family structures and values with parents being integral to the ‘parivar’. Two factors have broken this age old tradition: the mobility of the working population and the nuclear family preference in modern times. Read more
Source : indianexpress.com






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