The world population is aging. Aging tends to bring changes in physical and mental health, financial independence, and changing living conditions that involving loneliness and sometimes even depression. Changes occur in body appearance that may wear a frail look with some losing tooth, hard of hearing, loss of vision, some suffering loss of memory, and some being bedridden to weakness or fall. Majority of the elderly are living with their children in India though about one-fifth either live alone or only with the spouse and hence have to manage their material and physical needs on their own. While it is good that people are living longer and that diseases that once killed people at a young age are now treatable, chronic diseases, many other areas of life have yet to catch up. Researchers believe industrialization and modernization have contributed greatly to lowering the power, influence, and prestige the elderly once held. Today, with most households confined to the nuclear family, attitudes toward the elderly have changed. Care of the elderly as a special group has not been paid enough attention in most countries. Aging has a major influence on disability Geriatric care disability, as older persons become frailer and more vulnerable to physical and mental conditions. Aging-related disabilities include sight impairment and blindness, hearing impairment and deafness, musculoskeletal diseases, and mental disorders. Activities of daily living (ADL) limitations are indicative of the care burden in any society. The cost of Geriatric care cost of the health care during old age appears to be very high and this in turn increases the out-of-pocket expenditure on health care particularly when private facilities are availed of. Elderly need more care as cure options get limited due to degenerating health conditions. They need long time to either recuperate after acute illness or develop chronic conditions resulting in inabilities perform daily routine activities and therefore become dependent on others for the rest of their life. In India, although notions of aging and care are changing, there is a continued preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives. Bedridden elderly people may need help with bathing and dental care. Preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives is on the rise. National Program for Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE) is a very substantive contribution from MOHFW toward health goals of elderly formulated in National Policy on Older Persons as well as the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007. Unpaid caregivers spend a substantial percentage of each week “helping out,” often with older relatives, which requires major changes in their work patterns. As a result of advances in communication and medical technology, a lot of interventions that were earlier possible only in hospitals are now possible at home. Home care companies provide attendants, nurses, physiotherapists, and doctors at home to take care of senior citizens as well as patients after surgery.

Geriatric Care Centers and Its Role in Elderly Care

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2025年

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Komal Renganathan Gangadharan

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The world population is aging. Aging tends to bring changes in physical and mental health, financial independence, and changing living conditions that involving loneliness and sometimes even depression. Changes occur in body appearance that may wear a frail look with some losing tooth, hard of hearing, loss of vision, some suffering loss of memory, and some being bedridden to weakness or fall. Majority of the elderly are living with their children in India though about one-fifth either live alone or only with the spouse and hence have to manage their material and physical needs on their own. While it is good that people are living longer and that diseases that once killed people at a young age are now treatable, chronic diseases, many other areas of life have yet to catch up. Researchers believe industrialization and modernization have contributed greatly to lowering the power, influence, and prestige the elderly once held. Today, with most households confined to the nuclear family, attitudes toward the elderly have changed. Care of the elderly as a special group has not been paid enough attention in most countries. Aging has a major influence on disability Geriatric care disability, as older persons become frailer and more vulnerable to physical and mental conditions. Aging-related disabilities include sight impairment and blindness, hearing impairment and deafness, musculoskeletal diseases, and mental disorders. Activities of daily living (ADL) limitations are indicative of the care burden in any society. The cost of Geriatric care cost of the health care during old age appears to be very high and this in turn increases the out-of-pocket expenditure on health care particularly when private facilities are availed of. Elderly need more care as cure options get limited due to degenerating health conditions. They need long time to either recuperate after acute illness or develop chronic conditions resulting in inabilities perform daily routine activities and therefore become dependent on others for the rest of their life. In India, although notions of aging and care are changing, there is a continued preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives. Bedridden elderly people may need help with bathing and dental care. Preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives is on the rise. National Program for Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE) is a very substantive contribution from MOHFW toward health goals of elderly formulated in National Policy on Older Persons as well as the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007. Unpaid caregivers spend a substantial percentage of each week “helping out,” often with older relatives, which requires major changes in their work patterns. As a result of advances in communication and medical technology, a lot of interventions that were earlier possible only in hospitals are now possible at home. Home care companies provide attendants, nurses, physiotherapists, and doctors at home to take care of senior citizens as well as patients after surgery.