Senior Citizens, Persons with Disability and Transgender Persons

Senior Citizens

Objective

  • To ensure a life of dignity, social security and safety for senior citizens, enabling them to actively participate in economic development and the nation building process.

Way Forward

  • Revise the National Policy for Older Persons. The policy should cover housing, income security, pension, and access to healthcare. It should also emphasize the concept of ‘ageing in place’ or ‘ageing in own home’.
  • Bring schemes pertaining to senior citizens under the restructured Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and Senior Citizens.
  • Bring the necessary amendments to the
  • Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Older Persons Act, 2007
  • Consider establishing an old age home in every ....

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