- According to the document, senior citizens are projected to comprise 18% of India's population by 2025. There are laws requiring children to financially support their parents, but many elderly people are unaware of these laws and suffer abuse. An estimated 25% of elders experience abuse from family members other than daughters. Most cases of abuse go unreported as elders want to protect their family's reputation.

1. RIGHTS
OF
SENIOR
CITIZENS

2. SERUDS NGO
Helps Elderly
Senior citizens group is projected to comprise
18% per cent of India’s total population by 2025.
There are statutory provisions for maintenance
of parents under Hindu personal law, and similar
laws for other religions. Under the Maintenance
and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act,
2007 it is a legal obligation for an heir or children
to provide a monthly allowance to her parents
as maintenance

3. SERUDS NGO
Helps Elderly
Unfortunately a large part of the population is
unaware of them. This results in abuse of elders
by family. It is estimated that nearly 25% of the
elderly population experiences abuse by their
sons, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, but never
by daughters. It is ironic that parents feel that
birth of a girl child is a burden on them! Most of
the cases of abuse are not reported, as the elders
want to protect family’s reputation in society

4. Your support will
change life of an Elder
• Around 33 per cent of the elderly live alone or with
spouse only
• 70 per cent of the elderly population is illiterate
• 90 per cent work for livelihood
• Elders have to grapple with financial insecurity,
morbidity, loneliness, vulnerability, physical
weakness, social isolation and powerlessness
• Grandparents care for around half the orphan
children

5. Sponsor Free
Groceries For Elders
Moved by the plight of destitute single women,
Seruds has taken up program of sponsoring
elderly women on an urgent basis. Our volunteers
and staff members conducted surveys and
identified 120 destitute women who are above 60
year of age. These elderly women are widows or
have been abandoned by their husbands. They do
not have money for food, medical care and other
basic necessities

6. https://serudsindia.org/elders/