India has a framework of policies and programmes aimed at supporting older persons, but these are under-utilised and under-resourced relative to the scale of need.
India’s senior population will hit 319 million by 2050, and startups are stepping in where the government falls short. The industry is worth $7 billion—and growing.
Senior citizens are constantly under pressure to gracefully recede from the public eye and retire. But mountaineers and trekkers in their 60s and 70s are questioning this view.
Getting older is often a perilous journey, fraught with physical degradation, mental decline, and other alarming issues. In recent years, emerging science has demonstrated...
Published by Penguin Random House India, ‘My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's’ by Sandeep Jauhar will be released on 20 June on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch digital ebooks.
Societies like Japan are on the front lines of what will eventually be a global challenge. The human species has never before dealt with prolonged and continuous aging.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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