How the second wave devastated the elderly in India
Hindustan TimesIn March, just before the number of Covid-19 cases started increasing and spiralling out of control, her family had four living members. Through a network of 80,000 volunteers, across states, Himanshu Rath, the organisation’s founder, is working overtime to help the elderly destitute, including Ali who worked as a plumber but can work no more. From providing dry rations to cooked meals, medicines to hospital beds, psychological counselling to physical hand holding in homes for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, social workers are also helping rescue the “living abandoned” and the “abandoned dead”. The saddest aspect of this pandemic is that the elderly are being abandoned.” AgeCare’s statistics speak volumes of how cruel the second wave has been on India’s senior citizens. The mental health impact Agewell Foundation’s Rath has received several calls from the elderly complaining that they are being pressured into writing their wills.
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