Poor awareness of elderly rights in TS
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Only 5.1% clued-up on Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act
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Only 5.1% clued-up on Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act
Legal measures to bring relief to the elderly seem to have been marred by a lack of awareness of the laws. In Telangana, just 5.1% of people aged 60 and above are aware of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, revealed Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI)-Wave 1 report brought out by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).
The legislation details the circumstances in which property transfer can be void to protect the interests of senior citizens, medical support offered by State governments, monthly allowances from children, etc.
Parents are dependent on their children at some stage of life and it would be inequitable to deny compensation to those who lost their ward in a road accident, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice J R Midha said even if parents are not dependent on their children at the time of an accident, they will certainly be dependent, both financially and emotionally, upon them at the later stage of their life, as the children were dependent upon their parents in their initial years. The high court s observations came while awarding compensation for loss of dependency to a woman, who lost her 23-year-old son in a road accident in 2008, and enhanced the award amount from Rs 2.42 lakh to Rs 6.80 lakh.
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Ageing is a biological process. As one grows older, things get bit tough and complicated. Often the elderly find it difficult to cope and invariably come to realise that they need constant attention, care, love and companionship. Perhaps the biggest concern for almost all human beings, especially in the evening of their lives is: What happens next?
Life for the elderly in their sixties or seventies is even more difficult when they find themselves alone and abandoned with no near and dear ones to fall back upon. Given the gradual disintegration of the joint family system and the evolution of the nuclear families, parents who toiled and sacrificed their prime for their family are at wits end as they realise their children are unable to tend for them.
Parents are dependent on their children at some stage of life and it would be inequitable to deny compensation to those who lost their ward in a road accident, the Delhi High Court has said.
Parents are dependent on their children at some stage of life and it would be inequitable to deny compensation to those who lost their ward in a road accident, the Delhi High Court has said.