Governance

Life expectancy in india has up from fifty (1970-75) to seventy years (2014-18); as a result, the number of elders (those over sixty years) is already 137 million, and expected to increase by forty per cent to 195 million in 2031, and three hundred million by 2050.

·        The National Programme for the Health take care of the older (NPHCE) is an articulation of the International and national commitments of the govt. as envisaged under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), National Policy on Older Persons (NPOP) adopted by the govt. of india in 1999 & Section twenty of “The Maintenance and Welfare of parents and Senior citizens Act, 2007” managing with provisions for medical aid of old-age pensioner.

·        Vision to produce accessible, affordable, and high-quality long-run, comprehensive and dedicated care services to an Ageing population; creating a new “architecture” for Ageing; to create a framework to make an enabling environment for “a Society for all Ages”; to promote the thought of Active and Healthy Ageing.