Senior Care News

The OPS is a defined benefit pension scheme, which means that employees are guaranteed a fixed pension after retirement.

Currently a young country, India will turn into a rapidly ageing society in the coming decades, a recent UN report said.

Rapid and accelerating ageing is taking place on account of declining fertility, increasing longevity and the movement of large cohorts into the ranks of the elderly.

GoHealth found that 1 in 3 millennials are supporting their parents financially, and more than a quarter help manage their parents’ health care.

Rohit Prasad, CEO, HelpAge India highlights that in the vision of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’, senior citizens deserve to be celebrated for their contributions and recognised for their potential

Malayali expatriates have expressed relief at having access to dependable retirement homes within the state, providing them with the option to entrust their parents to institutional care.

Around 5-10 years earlier, a senior citizen with a chronic condition like hypertension or diabetes found it difficult to get health insurance cover. Since then insurers’ ability to underwrite and issue covers has improved, making it easier for this age cohort to obtain a policy.

Independent and affluent senior citizens are shifting to retirement communities

Tata Steel’s Sports Department organised a Badminton Championship under the Senior Citizen Fun & Fitness League banner.

India’s increasingly greying population means we need to pay urgent attention to both senior citizens and their mental health.

According to the complaint, for the past 10 years, his daughter has treated him poorly, both mentally and physically.

A pensioner can either submit the certificate physically, by visiting banks, post offices, or online. The remaining pensioners below the age of 80 years have to give their life certificate in November.

Age bias doesn’t show up only as discrimination or snarky birthday cards. One potent source of ageism comes from older people themselves.

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China’s ageing crisis is at a “critical juncture” as experts believe that the situation in the country will get worse in the next decade.

There is no defined age when you become a senior citizen. 

lots of people aging and dying, and relatively few giving birth and raising kids.

Americans who serve as caregivers are consumed by the immense cost of tending to ailing or aging family members. And as the baby boomer generation ages, more Americans are in for a rude awakening as to just how expensive caring for older adults has become.

The free service will include transport to and from the hospital

His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, confirmed that the elderly enjoy free integrated treatment services at the University Hospital, starting with the delivery service from home to the hospital and vice versa, directly personally ordering that the elderly have special treatment in the hospital, from their arrival until their discharge.

The civil affairs bureau in Binjiang district of Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province has initiated a multi-generational cohabitation elderly care project. A nursing home participating in the project is recruiting the third batch of companions for elderly people.

Seniors Lab seeks to enhance the well-being and inclusivity of Singapore’s ageing population by innovating care delivery systems. Designed to address challenges in rising healthcare costs, the programme leverages Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to create an integrated care delivery system that will lower the cost of care delivery, while helping seniors of SNM lead safer, more comfortable, and independent lives.

More than 160 seniors ages 60 and up will graduate this week from a unique local program that’s helped them get familiar with technology.

Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) have organised a series of entertaining community sports events as part of their “Our Sports Summer Initiative.”

There’s a crisis of funding in England’s elderly care homes