Old-age Homes

The Delhi High Court has directed a man to do community service in a hospital, orphanage and old-age home for three months while quashing an FIR against him for allegedly sending obscene messages to a woman.

The Supreme Court deprecated the practice by states of re-designating old-age homes and other custodial institutions as halfway homes for people who have been cured of mental illness saying it would not subserve the purpose of rehabilitation.

Senior citizens at a private home for the elderly in Coimbatore are literally making waves by launching a podcast called Tapovani, to fighting the lockdown triggered boredom.

The Healthy Aging India in association with the Rotary Club International and the AIIMS will launch a mobile health van to provide a comprehensive healthcare at the doorsteps to destitute elderly people residing in old-age homes in the National Capital Region (NCR).

The inmates were sent to Baba Raghav Das Medical College for a health check-up as they seemed to be in a feeble state of mind.

Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival - among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said.

A bitter internal tussle of Kerala Congress is being fought out in public, as a group of young lawmakers have set themselves against the re-election of veteran leader PJ Kurien in Rajya Sabha. On Facebook, while one lawmaker advised the party not to treat the upper house of parliament as an "old-age home" another said Mr Kurien should "take this op...

Central Board of Film Certification member Ashoke Pandit, who paid for actress Geeta Kapaoor's hospital bills and treatment, is overseeing her care now

A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients in long-term care facilities in an alleged killing spree that ran for seven years.

When a Hindu man who lived at a home for senior citizens died earlier this week, it was a Muslim woman who performed the last rites at his cremation in the Warangal district of Telangana has shown by performing the last rites of a Hindu man, abandoned by his own family.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Kanubhai Gandhi, who is living in an old age home in New Delhi with his wife, and directed Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma to meet him.

He grew up playing in the lap of Mahatma Gandhi but 87-year-old Kannubhai Ramdas Gandhi is spending the last leg of his life with his 85-year-old wife Dr Shiva Laxmi in a seniors' home in Delhi.

The Delhi High Court has directed a man to do community service in a hospital, orphanage and old-age home for three months while quashing an FIR against him for allegedly sending obscene messages to a woman.

The Supreme Court deprecated the practice by states of re-designating old-age homes and other custodial institutions as halfway homes for people who have been cured of mental illness saying it would not subserve the purpose of rehabilitation.

Senior citizens at a private home for the elderly in Coimbatore are literally making waves by launching a podcast called Tapovani, to fighting the lockdown triggered boredom.

The Healthy Aging India in association with the Rotary Club International and the AIIMS will launch a mobile health van to provide a comprehensive healthcare at the doorsteps to destitute elderly people residing in old-age homes in the National Capital Region (NCR).

The inmates were sent to Baba Raghav Das Medical College for a health check-up as they seemed to be in a feeble state of mind.

Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival - among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said.

A bitter internal tussle of Kerala Congress is being fought out in public, as a group of young lawmakers have set themselves against the re-election of veteran leader PJ Kurien in Rajya Sabha. On Facebook, while one lawmaker advised the party not to treat the upper house of parliament as an "old-age home" another said Mr Kurien should "take this op...

Central Board of Film Certification member Ashoke Pandit, who paid for actress Geeta Kapaoor's hospital bills and treatment, is overseeing her care now

A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients in long-term care facilities in an alleged killing spree that ran for seven years.

When a Hindu man who lived at a home for senior citizens died earlier this week, it was a Muslim woman who performed the last rites at his cremation in the Warangal district of Telangana has shown by performing the last rites of a Hindu man, abandoned by his own family.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Kanubhai Gandhi, who is living in an old age home in New Delhi with his wife, and directed Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma to meet him.

He grew up playing in the lap of Mahatma Gandhi but 87-year-old Kannubhai Ramdas Gandhi is spending the last leg of his life with his 85-year-old wife Dr Shiva Laxmi in a seniors' home in Delhi.