"The Opportunity in Geriatric Care in India", Anas Weblog, February 14, 2010.
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"With nuclear families and double incomes being the norm in urban India, children caring for their parents find the going tough. It is not that they do not wish to look after the elderly, the problem is that juggling careers, children and parents needing constant medical attention becomes a difficult task. The situation gets further compounded if the elderly require constant medical attention."
Home care hardly exists in India. Even in a city like Delhi, getting adequate nursing care at home is next to impossible. While a handful of nursing services exist, their services are unreliable and offer dubious quality of care. These centres do not employ nurses trained in geriatric care, most of them are rejects from big hospitals and land up in these places because no one else is willing to hire them. Trusting, them to look after the elderly at home is a huge risk."
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"To my mind this is a significant business opportunity, which can only grow.
Specialised Geriatric Care centres, will provide comprehensive care to the elderly. This would include day care as well as residential care centres. These centres need not be hospitals in the strictest sense of the word but specialised care centres equipped to take care of the day-to-day medical needs of the aged.
Unlike hospitals these centres will not be only for those who are sick with a debilitating or terminal illness but for all those who need assisted living. Thus these centres will offer continuous care both in terms of managing day-to-day chores as well as state of the art medical care."
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READ FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://anasexperiences.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/the-opportunity-in-geriatric-care-in-india/
"The Opportunity in Geriatric Care in India", Anas Weblog, February 14, 2010.
....
"With nuclear families and double incomes being the norm in urban India, children caring for their parents find the going tough. It is not that they do not wish to look after the elderly, the problem is that juggling careers, children and parents needing constant medical attention becomes a difficult task. The situation gets further compounded if the elderly require constant medical attention."
Home care hardly exists in India. Even in a city like Delhi, getting adequate nursing care at home is next to impossible. While a handful of nursing services exist, their services are unreliable and offer dubious quality of care. These centres do not employ nurses trained in geriatric care, most of them are rejects from big hospitals and land up in these places because no one else is willing to hire them. Trusting, them to look after the elderly at home is a huge risk."
......
"To my mind this is a significant business opportunity, which can only grow.
Specialised Geriatric Care centres, will provide comprehensive care to the elderly. This would include day care as well as residential care centres. These centres need not be hospitals in the strictest sense of the word but specialised care centres equipped to take care of the day-to-day medical needs of the aged.
Unlike hospitals these centres will not be only for those who are sick with a debilitating or terminal illness but for all those who need assisted living. Thus these centres will offer continuous care both in terms of managing day-to-day chores as well as state of the art medical care."
.....
READ FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://anasexperiences.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/the-opportunity-in-geriatric-care-in-india/
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