1. Care to Elders
An initiative to Care Elders
Introduction
In the present milieu Elders do need external help.
By a keen observation by our survey team
conducted in the area of Freedom Fighters Vihar, it
was revealed that the situation is not at all good.
Elders do need help for their daily needs.
The needs elucidated by Elders in the survey can be
categorized in following categories.
1. Nothing to do after retirement
2. They want to do something, but are
discouraged by Society and family
3. Not getting their due space to work and live
peacefully
4. No place to spend sometime, constructively
5. Lack of health services especially for Elders
6. Health Services provided by the Institutions
where they worked are either inadequate or
unavailable for retired employees, which
force them to overlook their health issues
7. There is no harmony in imparting Health
Services by Central Government and State
Government.
8. Not getting good nutrition, due to their
different calorie needs than other family
members, who are young and need tasty and
rich calorie food
9. Rejection by Family and Society, due to lack
of understanding them and their psychology
2. 10. They are being used by family members for
jobs which can be undertaken by menials.
11. Governments apathy to give special care to
Elders who have given useful service to the
nation when they were young
12. It was observed that some of the elders are
depressed or likely to fall a victim of
depression
Fall out from the above observations
Almost all elders are in low esteem, due to the
present situation. Some of them are managing
themselves, by fighting with courage. Some are
engrossed in religious activities for forgetting the
present situation. Unfortunately few who could not
manage with their plight are suffering from a
disease called Depression.
Medicines and Health Services are either very very
costly or out of reach for pensioners who do not get
Health cover from their Institution where they
worked. With the result, some of them are in the
grip of diseases without any medical treatment and
suffering
