India and Ageing
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- How older people’s association can participate in disaster preparedness and mitigation in Asia and the Pacific
- HelpAge International, 2007
- Building community capacity through Older People’s Associations (OPAs) enhances the resilience of a community in the event of a disaster. Lessons learnt suggest that there are many ways in which older men and women can contribut...
- Investigating how to provide community-based support for caregivers
- A. Dias; M.E. Dewey; J. D'Souza / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2008
- This paper presents the results of a trial evaluating the effectiveness of a community based intervention for persons with dementia and their caregivers. The study was conducted in Goa, on the west coast of India, and aimed to develop...
- Living long enough to be counted - poverty levels in Indian households
- S. Pal; R. Palacios / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2008
- Cash transfers to the poor elderly as social pensions are one of the most important anti-poverty programmes operating in India today. In 2007, the Government of India announced that changes to eligibility rules would increase the numb...
- Health care services in Asia cannot address the growing threat of chronic illnesses
- HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2008
- This study documents the perceptions of older people, care-givers, and health service providers in terms of knowledge of active and healthy ageing, access and quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services. It particularly looks ...
- Perspectives on the challenges of ageing societies on human rights
- International Longevity Centre, 2007
- This booklet is a compilation of reports from the United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Dominican Republic, Israel, India, Japan, Netherlands, Argentina and the USA. Each considers the rights and entitlements of the aged in the respec...
- The Indian Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007
- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, 2007
- The Indian Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007 is an initiative of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Bill states that adult children and grandchildren who are earning members ...
- Legal moves to ensure that family support of the elderly is maintained in India
- Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2007
- This brief highlights the main clauses of the 2007 Indian bill that makes it a legal obligation for Indian children and heirs to provide maintenance to senior citizens, and also permits state governments to establish old age homes in ...
- Is the Indian pension scheme not so unsustainable afterall?
- ESocialSciences, 2007
- A consensus appears to have been reached among economists, financial experts, planners and policy makers that the present non-contributory and defined benefit nature of the Indian pension system for all government employees is unsusta...
- Potential for micro-pensions to play a useful role in India's social security system
- M.G. Asher; S. Shankar / ESocialSciences, 2007
- This paper argues that micro-pensions can play a limited but useful role if they are brought into the mainstream of the financial system. It looks at the nature and design of micro-pensions in , discusses channels for expanding covera...
- Many widows in Rajasthan are living outside the social safety net
- S. Dutta / International Budget Partnership, 2007
- This study of Rajasthan argues that rural women in Rajasthan constitute the most deprived, downtrodden, illiterate, neglected and the weakest group of the population. It asks the question that if this is the condition of women in gene...
- Agewell Foundation
- Outreach and research initiatives for the elderly in India
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP)
- The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is an official publication of the Indian Psychiatric Society. The IJP publishes original work in all the fields of psychiatry. All papers are peer-reviewed before publication.
- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
- The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of Indian society: "scheduled caste, backward classes, persons with disabilities, aged persons, and victims of drug abuse etc." Basic objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of the Indian welfar...
