Old Age Homes
An old age home is generally the most commonly referred to option when it comes to considering housing options for senior citizens. Senior citizens experience a sense of security and friendship when they share their joys and sorrows with each other. A high level of nursing care is available along with an organized, routine of social events and group activities as well as the delivery of meals.Old age homes supply a number of needs. First among these is security, both financially, physically and medically, though not necessarily in that order. For older people who have nowhere to go and no one to support them, old age homes provide a safe haven. These homes also create a family like atmosphere among the residents. There are more than a thousand old age homes in India. Most of them offer free accommodation. Some homes work on a payment basis depending on the type and quality of services offered. Apart from food, shelter and medical amenities, old age homes also provide yoga classes to senior citizens. Old age homes also provide access to telephones and other forms of communication so that residents may keep in touch with their loved ones. Some old age homes have day care centres. These centres only take care of senior citizens during the day. Alarmingly, the trend in our ‘supposedly modernistic’ society is to abandon the elderly to themselves. Soulkonnect Foundation is one of such organisation, which provides shelter to the abandoned elderly. With increasing longevity, and the fact that most elderly do not have a government-provided social security blanket, Soulkonnect Foundation, contribute in their humble & small way, by providing shelter to the abandoned elderly.