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NEW DELHI,
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A glistening chauffeur-driven luxury car comes to a halt outside a building in Lajpat Nagar. A tall elderly man steps out in a crisp safari suit. He saunters up a flight of stairs and enters an of...
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NEW DELHI,
Sunday, May 19, 2013
In an incident that exposes the vulnerability of the elderly and the need for a better transaction monitoring mechanism by banks for deals involving their accounts, an 81-year-old in Rohini lost a...
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NEW DELHI,
Sunday, May 19, 2013
With cases of harassment of elderly citizens by their own family, mainly sons and daughters, on the rise, nine Maintenance Tribunals were set up in the nine districts of Delhi to provide redress t...
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April 19, 2013
Senior citizens are learning to please their travel appetite with international holidays
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BARRACKPORE (WEST BENGAL),
April 8, 2013
Bikram Singh appreciative of West Bengal’ efforts for ex-servicemen welfare
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February 27, 2013
Woes that come with age…
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Madurai,
February 21, 2013
Senior citizens face a drought of love and care as their children abandon them
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
December 29, 2012
‘Catching up with old buddies always turns out to be a pleasant experience’
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December 18, 2012
Thanks to The Hindu for bringing to focus the need for better living conditions for the aged (“Ageing with dignity,” Dec. 17) . If widowhood is over 50 per cent among women and their longevity is m...
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December 14, 2012
A new idea sees developers assigning a part of their regular projects towards fully planned retirement flats, thus bringing the elderly into the mainstream. Vaishna Roy reports
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CHENNAI,
December 3, 2012
A day at the pension pay office reveals senior citizens’ helplessness and bureaucratic ineptitude
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NEW DELHI,
November 12, 2012
Majority attribute their loneliness to no or little interaction with family, within society: Agewell Foundation
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TIRUCHI,
November 3, 2012
Senior citizens feeling neglected by their wards can prefer complaints with the Collector or the Revenue Divisional Officer
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MADURAI,
April 12, 2013
Rs.45 per head collected from non-passengers to enter lounge
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Thiruvananthapuram,
March 27, 2013
It is around 4.30 p.m. and Jose’s work is done for the day. Just then somebody walks up to him for help. “My daughter’s date of birth is different in her birth certificate and school certificate....
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February 26, 2013
Institutes run by voluntary organisations in Vrindavan for widows express disquiet at being left out of government doles
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Mangalore,
January 9, 2013
After spending four nights at bus stands and on the streets of Mangalore, Gangamma, who claims she is 95, was rehabilitated in a night shelter with the Deputy Commissioner’s intervention on Tuesday...
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Bhopal,
December 22, 2012
The Madhya Pradesh Government has set up a “Senior Citizen Commission” to look into the problems of the elderly in the State.
The decision to set up the Commission was taken during cabine...
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December 17, 2012
The trouble with ageing is that it is inevitable. The truth about ageing in India is that we have not yet built an adequate knowledge base to respond to its multifarious challenges. So says the Un...
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MADURAI,
December 14, 2012
The move is intended to prevent overloading and footboard travelling in buses.
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Kochi,
November 23, 2012
In Kerala, around 25,000 people retire every year from government service.
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November 11, 2012
Sunday ward rounds are always a leisurely and relatively stress-free activity for a geriatrician like me. My main purpose today is to get consent from Mr. Krishnan. His wife, Padma, has a large bo...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
November 3, 2012
Hosted by the Senior Citizens Service Council, the two-day conference is packed with technical sessions delving into the issues faced by senior citizens across the country
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