Articles

India 2050: Building a Sustainable Long-Term Care System for an Ageing Society

India’s ageing transition will reshape healthcare, families, housing, employment and community life over the coming decades. This flagship article brings together prevention, family support, home and community care, workforce development,...

What India Can Learn From International Long-Term Care Systems — and What Other Countries Can Learn From India

Long-term care systems across the world have developed different approaches to financing, entitlement, family support, community care, workforce and accountability. This article examines which international principles could help India build...

The Emerging Elder Care Economy in India: Providers, Innovation and New Models of Support

India’s elder care economy is expanding beyond traditional family support and institutional care into home-based services, senior living, care coordination, rehabilitation, technology and specialised support. This article examines how that...

Financing Long-Term Care in India: Who Pays for an Ageing Society?

India’s long-term care economy is financed less through a single formal system than through a shifting combination of household income, family labour, public health programmes, pensions, insurance and private purchasing....

Rural Ageing in India: Building Long-Term Care Beyond Major Cities

India’s ageing transition will be shaped as much by villages, small towns and remote districts as by its largest cities. This article examines how primary healthcare, family support, community networks,...

Building Integrated Health and Long-Term Care for Older People in India

India’s older people increasingly need support that crosses hospitals, primary healthcare, rehabilitation, home-based care, community services and family caregiving. This article examines what meaningful integration would require in India: clearer...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Elder Care in India: Building Capability Without Losing Human Oversight

Artificial intelligence could help India identify deterioration earlier, coordinate fragmented care, extend scarce expertise and reduce administrative burden across a rapidly growing elder-care system. Its value will depend less on...

Assistive Technology for Ageing in Place in India: Extending Independence Through Affordable, Person-Centred Support

Assistive technology could play a major role in helping older people across India remain independent, mobile and connected in their own homes and communities. This article examines how mobility aids,...

Telemedicine and Remote Care for Older People Across India: Extending Access Without Losing Continuity

Telemedicine can extend clinical reach across India’s vast geography, but older people need more than a video consultation. This article examines how eSanjeevani, Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, primary healthcare, assisted consultations,...

Digital Health and India’s Ageing Population: Connecting Older People to Care Across a Diverse Health System

India’s expanding digital health infrastructure could reshape how older people access clinical care, manage long-term conditions and remain connected to services across distance. This article examines how national digital architecture,...

Leadership, Governance and Accountability in India’s Emerging Long-Term Care Sector

As India’s formal long-term care sector expands, quality will depend increasingly on who holds responsibility, how risks are governed and whether providers can demonstrate that policy and care standards are...

Measuring Outcomes Rather Than Activity in Indian Long-Term Care

As India’s formal long-term care sector expands, counting visits, beds, assessments and completed tasks will not be enough to demonstrate whether support is improving people’s lives. This article examines how...

Quality Improvement Across India’s Long-Term Care Services as Formal Care Expands

India’s long-term care landscape spans family support, public health services, charitable provision and a growing organised elder-care market. As formal services expand, the challenge is no longer only increasing capacity...

Professionalising India’s Home and Community Care Workforce: Building Skills, Status and Sustainable Care Careers

As more older people in India receive support at home, the capability and employment conditions of the people providing that care will become increasingly important. This article examines how India...

Building India’s Long-Term Care Workforce for an Ageing Population

India’s ageing transition will require a much larger and more capable workforce across geriatric medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, home care and community support. This article examines how India can turn recent...

Rights, Dignity and Safeguarding Older People in India

As India’s older population grows, protecting dignity, autonomy and safety requires more than responding to abuse after harm occurs. This article examines India’s legal and policy framework for older people,...

Age-Friendly Communities in India: Designing Places Where Older People Can Thrive

Age-friendly communities depend on far more than specialist services for older people. This article examines how housing, transport, public space, accessibility, neighbourhood relationships, healthcare and local participation shape later life...

Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older People in India: Rebuilding Connection in a Changing Society

India’s ageing transition is unfolding alongside migration, urbanisation, smaller households and changing family roles, reshaping how older people maintain everyday connection and support. This article examines loneliness and social isolation...

Supporting Older People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions in India

Many older people in India live not with one isolated illness but with combinations of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, respiratory conditions, sensory impairment and other long-term needs. This article...

Dementia Care in India: Building Awareness, Diagnosis and Community Support

India’s growing dementia burden is exposing a major gap between the number of people living with cognitive impairment and the capacity of health, community and long-term care systems to recognise...

Primary Healthcare and Older People in India: Building Stronger Community-Based Care Pathways

India’s ageing transition will increasingly test whether primary healthcare can support older people before needs escalate into repeated hospital treatment or avoidable dependency. This article examines the role of Ayushman...

Rehabilitation and Reablement in India: Restoring Independence After Illness or Injury

India’s growing older population makes recovery after illness, injury and hospitalisation an increasingly important long-term care issue. This article examines rehabilitation across hospitals, homes and communities, the potential for stronger...

Residential Long-Term Care in India: Quality, Regulation and the Future of Senior Living

Residential care for older people in India is evolving from a relatively narrow landscape of charitable old-age homes towards a diverse sector spanning supported senior-citizen homes, private assisted living, continuing...

Family Caregiving in India: Supporting the Backbone of Long-Term Care

Family caregiving remains central to how millions of older people in India receive everyday support, yet demographic change, migration, smaller households and increasingly complex health needs are reshaping what families...

Home Care Services in India: Building a Sustainable Model of Support at Home

Home care is becoming increasingly important as India’s ageing population grows, family structures change and more older people seek to remain in familiar homes and communities. This article examines how...

Governing Ageing and Long-Term Care in India: From National Policy to State and Local Delivery

India’s response to population ageing is shaped by a federal system in which health, social welfare, pensions, local government and family support intersect across different levels of responsibility. This article...

Healthy Ageing in India: Prevention, Public Health and Longer Independent Lives

India’s ageing challenge is shaped not only by how many people live longer, but by how many of those additional years are lived with independence, participation and manageable health needs....

Ageing at Home in India: Building Sustainable Community Support Around Older People and Families

Most older people in India continue to live within households and communities rather than formal care settings, but remaining at home does not automatically guarantee independence, safety or adequate support....

How Long-Term Care Works in India: Families, Government, Healthcare and an Emerging Care Sector

Long-term care in India is not organised through one national entitlement or delivery system. It is shaped by family support, public healthcare, senior citizen welfare programmes, state implementation, community organisations...

India’s Ageing Population: Preparing for One of the World’s Largest Demographic Transitions

India’s demographic transition will reshape healthcare, family caregiving, community support, housing and long-term care across profoundly different states and communities. This article examines how population ageing interacts with India’s existing...