Policies and politics of ageing in India: Social and technological options
H. Ansari, R. Priya Mehrotra
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AbstractFormal sector pensions as social security and technological inputs for individual assistive aids and health care cater to the needs of the elderly of the urban upper and middle class in India. Social security programmes for the majority, even though large-sized, make provisions only for minimal subsistence to a fraction of the rural and poor through non-contributory pensions, minimal access to health care and that primarily curative, as well as free cereals alone for the extreme destitute only. Use of technological inputs for the majority of elderly is only now beginning to be conceived. This paper presents a brief overview of the situation of the Indian elderly and policies relating to them. It examines the possible appropriate large-scale social and technological developments for their health and wellbeing from a social psychology and public health perspective.Keywords: Culture of Ageing in India, Mobility and Disability
H. Ansari, R. Priya Mehrotra (2014). Policies and politics of ageing in India: Social and technological options. Gerontechnology, 12(4), 219-228
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2014.12.4.006.00