The Supreme Court recently noted that more than Rs 3,000 crore have been scammed by fraudsters from victims, mostly drawn from the elderly population, through 'digital arrests'.
In a step towards improving maternal and child health, a state-of-the-art breastfeeding pod was inaugurated at Pakyong Bazaar today by MLA and advisor to the women, child, senior citizen and divyangjan welfare department, Pamin Lepcha.
GenS Life, a platform built for seniors by seniors is rewriting the rules of ageing
Observing that elders are a link to the past and guides to the future, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday that it is the nation's collective responsibility to ensure that seniors live their old age with dignity and activeness.
Two people were apprehended for brutally murdering a 69-year-old senior citizen by hitting multiple times with an iron road on his head following a monetary dispute, police said on Thursday.
On the occasion of Dhanvantari Jayanti and the 9th Ayurveda Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of multiple projects related to the health sector worth around Rs 12,850 crore on Tuesday at the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), New Delhi.
The workshop's purpose was to elicit views of states and other stakeholders on existing gaps and challenges in senior citizen care and to learn from them their best practices, which can be replicated in other states and Union Territories (UTs) with their contextualization.
A senior citizen, Sadananda Pal (63), a resident of Nalikul Cinematala, Haripal, on 18 August was hit on the back by a motorbike at high speed.
Senior citizens and NGOs including all those present in the meeting shared their important suggestions, grievances and several other measures that could further help in developing a better environment and ensuring safety of senior citizens.
A statement from the department said that only 13 per cent of the senior citizen population is fully vaccinated
