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Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act (amendment…
Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior
Citizens Act
living alone or only with a spouse increased from
9 per cent
in 1992 to
19 per cent
in 2006.
2007 enacted
legal obligation
for children to provide maintenance to parents in the
form of a monthly allowance.
establishes the
Maintenance Tribunal
to provide speedy and effective relief
Section 19
- establishment of an
old age home in every district
+ provides -
protection of life and property of the elderly
amendment bill 2018
Definition of “children” expanded
to include daughter-in-law and son in-law.
Seeks to
increase the jail term
for negligent children
increased fine and imprisonment- abandoning parents ,
done away with the financial cap of Rs 10,000
-
maintenance of parents
set standards
for senior citizens
care centres
and
multi-service
daycare centres
agencies -
Quality Control of India - star ratings for centres
- elderly person knows the standard of care to expect from a centre
conned into gifting their property
conned into
gifting their property
-
bars
a relative or a child from further selling the property -
without their consent
3 - 6 months jail ,fine 10K or both
issues
Rise in age-related
chronic illness
- more death and illness worldwide than infectious or parasitic diseases -
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
are expected to almost
double every 20 years
, as life expectancy increases.
Special challenges - less developed nations -
double burden
of caring for older people with
chronic diseases
+ with continued high rates of
infectious diseases
Increasing need for long-term care
Health care costs increase
Elderly women issues
life time of
gender-based discrimination
- universally, women
tend to live longer
than men
widowhood dominates
the status of women with 71 per cent of women and
only 29
per cent of men having lost their spouse
Social mores
inhibit
women from
re-marrying
widow is riddled with stringent moral codes -
integral
rights relinquished - liberties circumvented
excluded from social security schemes
- lower literacy and awareness levels.
Concerns with 2007 act
rather suffer than have the family name sullied by taking their own children to court
lack of knowledge of rights
, the
inherent inability
of the elderly to approach a tribunal for recourse
Way forward
signatory to Mipaa
, India has the
responsibility
to formulate and implement public policy on population ageing.
women, should be
represented in decision making
social/widow pension
and its universalisation is critical
access to social security schemes -
National Old Age Pension and Widow Pension Scheme