The Demographic Shift & Policy Imperative - Unlike many ageing societies that grew rich before they grew old, India is ageing at lower income levels and with large informal labour markets. The challenge is stark - how to secure dignified, affordable, and inclusive eldercare while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion.
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India's 60+ population is growing fast. This signals important public health gains, but also heralds rising care demands. Yet, India lacks an eldercare system. Instead of public systems, care need is mainly absorbed by families, primarily by women, often unpaid care, unsupported & invisible in economic accounts. Scattered government initiatives, experimenting private sector pilots focussed on high cost assisted living, marginal policy discourse embedded within health, pension or retirement homes is keeping eldercare invisible, under-financed & on the sidelines
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Defining Eldercare Economy - Why India's Silver Shift demands a Taxonomy
India is right now, at the starting line of a long journey with just about one third of the time, others had to cover this path
The Demographic Shift & Policy Imperative - Unlike many ageing societies that grew rich before they grew old, India is ageing at lower income levels and with large informal labour markets. The challenge is stark - how to secure dignified, affordable, and inclusive eldercare while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion.
Longform Article
The Silver Shift
From aspirations without architecture to a functional equitable eldercare system
India has more than 153 million elderly population today but no eldercare system. Public sector solutions are scattered and underfunded. Private sector solutions remain urban and niche. What will it take to shift from aspirations without architecture to an equitable functional eldercare system in India? Explore whats coming up in this special series designed to chart the move to a functional eldercare system