In India, “Senior citizens" as defined by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, is a person who is of the age of 60 years or more (Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, 2011). The United Nations also consider persons of age 60 years or more as senior citizens (Patel & Mishra, 2013). In this report we shall use the term ‘senior citizens’ or ‘elders’ or ‘elderly’ for all the people of age groups above 60.
Another group of people belonging to the age group of 50-59 shall be used as a reference group to understand the needs and requirements that are common to both the groups. Since this age group can be considered as a transition period from working age to elderly group, so their needs will help in formulation of the needs of the future generation of the elderly as well as in identifying the needs of the working age group. In this report, people belonging to age group 50-59 shall be referred to as ‘future elderly’’ and ‘the aged’)
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