Why engaging Home care services are necessary for Elderly Parents of NRI staying independently?
With globalization, many metro cities in India are facing a unique issue of increasing number of Elder Parents of non-residential Indians (NRI) staying independently in India. Their children have migrated abroad initially for higher education and later for work. Children have settled in new cities. They prefer their parents also to migrate abroad. Parents however are not comfortable in migration and prefer to stay in their familiar environment in India with friends and relatives. Till they are medically fit and below about 70 years of age, everything works fine but as their age start increasing, need for support increases. This adds to the worries of children as due to distance they have limitations on the support they can provide. This issue was not much prominent earlier due to systems of joint families staying together, where elder parents used to get support from family members, neighbors, friends etc. Now with nuclear families scattered in different cities and also due to t...