What is the best location for an Assisted Living Facility (Old Age Home/ Care Home/ Senior Living Facility)? In my opinion the answer is simple, 1) Access to hospital, 2) access to social & recreational avenues and 3) accessibility by staff to reach.
The graph of Ageing is extremely dynamic, once the health starts going downhill then it becomes a long drawn battle to win the war.
The advancement of medical science is such that, medicines don’t let us die and the physical and psychological ailments do not let us live, as a result visits to hospitals become regular.
While on one hand the picturesque hospital corridors and waiting rooms are much better in the today’s time, yet they are not the preferred tourist destinations for a weekly package tour.
The saving grace or something to look forward to after a hard day’s work of visiting various departments in a hospital is the canteen food. Luckily they serve different food to visitors and patients.
On a serious note, waiting outside a doctor’s chamber for consultation is like waiting for the school exam paper to be opened by the teacher, the nervousness of what the questions will be and if we will be able to pass the exam or not.
As India’s Elderly population is expected to grow exponentially it will become important for healthcare service providers to become more sensitive in handling the Silver generation, because statistically one on five people will be above the age of 60 years.
Pankaj Mehrotra
