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Policies and Programmes for Welfare of the Elderly in India

J Balamurugan , J Balamurugan

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Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Nursing 2(2 (1-2)):p 21-30, JAN-DEC 2019. | DOI: .

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J Balamurugan. Policies and Programmes for Welfare of the Elderly in India. RFP Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Nursing.
2019;2(1–2):21–30.

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The elderly people have been transiting through serious risks in their residual life. The changing socio-psychological environment of the contemporary world attributed by the sociopsychological and  ehavioural aspects instilled and stimulated by the global political economy largely influenced and interfered towards the contemporary environment social context. The life of the elderly people have to be better off, context, they should be taken care of through adequate social security measures and
the government is seems to be one of most responsible agency who can interfere in to this issues legally and as a responsible service of the government. In India the government have been implemented numerous number of social security measures through different policies and programmes. This paper focuses on the programmes implemented by the government of India for the social welfare of elderly people. This paper used secondary data from government published sources and from the survey of review of related literature on various dimensions
of social support of silver India. The enquiry found out that, the government implemented numerous numbers of policies and programmes which are effective to revamp the risky life of elderly people in India.
Keywords: Government of India; Initiatives; Social welfare measure; Policies and programmes; Elderly.

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