Agewell Foundation India

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Agewell Foundation India

• Agewell is about celebrating old age,
• about respecting our elders,
• about giving them support and
• about knowing that there is life
• - even when old.

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About Agewell Foundation

• An NGO established in the year 1999
• Dedicated towards the welfare of senior citizens
  across the country
• Assists senior citizens to move surely but
  steadily from helplessness and self pity towards
  confidence, respect and mutual caring
• Agewell volunteer teams include professionals,
  senior bureaucrats, university professors,
  artists, writers, judges all those people who
  sincerely feel and work for the cause

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Vision

• Agewell Foundation is committed to generate
  compassion and understanding within all to
  transform social attitudes towards the senior
  citizens, by empowering every older person in
  living life fully.

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Goals

• Agewell has been set up to infuse better
  interaction between the generations. It endeavors
  to
• Bring about a change in perceptions about Old Age
• Initiate steps towards senior citizens friendly
  environment
• Evolve a sense of moral and social responsibility
  towards senior citizens
• Advocate for the needs and rights of senior
  citizens
• Extend a helping hand to senior citizens wherever
  required

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The Facts - Worldwide

• A demographic restructuring of the world populace
  is underway.
• United Nations estimates put the number of those
  aged 60 plus at 600 million, i.e. 10 per cent of
  the world population.
• The number is expected to go up by 2 billion by
  2050.
• The Economic Survey 2004, states that the elderly
  population (65 plus) is expected to rise sharply
  by 2.6 per cent per annum from 45 million in 2000
  to 76 million in 2020.

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The Facts - India

• No. of Persons 60 in India was 57 million in
  1991 which is expected to reach 100 million mark
  during next decade.
• 63 of the total elderly population is in age
  group of 60-69 years, 26 in age group of 70-79
  years.
• 11 in age group of 80 years and above.
• National figures also indicate that incidence of
  widowhood is much higher among females who are
  60.

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Senior Citizens - Priority Areas

• Social Participation Empowerment
• Social integration
• Macro-social change development
• Changing structures and functions of families,
  kin and community
• Finance Empowerment
• Financial security
• Financial sustenance
• Financial participation in the society

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Senior Citizens - Priority Areas

• Health And Well-being
• Healthy ageing
• Biomedical support
• Physical and mental support
• Improved quality of life
• Legal Security
• Legal protection
• Justice in time

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Current Activities

• Helpline Redressal Services
• Agewell Helpline for senior citizens in Delhi
• Agewell Helpline for senior citizens in Ahmedabad
• Voluntary Activities
• Aadhar Nationwide Voluntary Action Network
• Research Activities
• Agewell Centre for Research Advocacy for Needs
  Rights of senior citizens

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Current Activities

• Social Activities
• Share a Smile with Your Elders School Contact
  Program
• Agewell Family Membership Scheme
• Employment Job Opportunities
• Agewell Employment Exchange for senior citizens

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Contact Management- Breakup
Residential Issues 10
Social Issues 34
Suggestions 10
Legal, Medical Financial Issues 22
Pension Insurance Issues 24
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Research Advocacy Center

• Advocacy Issues
• Needs rights of older persons from their own
  perspective
• Concern for welfare of elderly
• Adequacy of economic resources in old age
• Evolve and implement methodologies for better
  living conditions of older persons
• Life cycle model of economic well-being
• Old age generational gender differences
  relating to economic status
• Attempt to bridge intergenerational gap

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Market Research

• Currently underway
• Research
• Nationwide study of needs rights of senior
  citizens from their own perspective
• Issues of concern for welfare of senior citizens
• Evolution and implement of new methodologies for
  improving living conditions of senior citizens
• Analysis
• Gap analysis between intergenerational Indian
  senior citizens condition and status
• Data consolidations analysis of issues faced by
  senior citizens since the year 1999

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Our Presence

• 35 States Union Territories of India
• 540 Districts Across India
• 6,300 Dedicated Volunteers
• 4.8 Million Senior Citizens
• 4924 Self-help Groups
• 3,52,011 Senior Citizens members of Self-help
  Groups

Aadhar Volunteers Presence In India States
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Our Strengths

• Infrastructure In Place
• Help Line / Contact Center
• National connectivity
• 24 x7 x 365 operations
• Capacity to handle 14,000 calls per day
• Team of paramedics counselors
• Patient Relationship Management software
• Tele-medicine processes
• Feet on Street
• Counselors, volunteers self-help groups
• Retail distribution network at state, district,
  zila, town level covering

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Activities in PipelineAwaiting Funds

• Patient Care
• Old age trauma center
• Old age and disability an outreach initiative
• Senior citizens and HIV/AIDS
• Training Programs
• Senior citizens as social communicators
• Care giver, Old age management
• Research
• Senior citizens in prison and asylums
• Linkage between adolescents and senior citizens
• Interaction centers for senior citizens

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Our Focus

• To initiate a debate and identify the current
  perspectives and issues that are being
  experienced by the senior citizens in the
  country, culminating with applicable solutions to
  problem areas and present the same to the policy
  decision makers.
• The triology of symposiums will address-
• Social needs
• Medical needs
• Legal needs

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Social Needs
Agewell Foundation India

• Todays Focus