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Need for State policy for the elderly stressed

By our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 20. The Principal Secretary, Health, S. Bhale Rao, today called for a State-specific policy for the elderly which addressed itself to local needs since the national policy was too broad-based.

He said that by 2020 India would have an estimated 200 million people in the 60 plus age group whose needs would concern the society and the Government. As things stood today, there appeared to be no plans to cope with old age, nor were there any specialised institutions for treating them.

Mr. Bhale Rao was inaugurating a training programme in social gerontology and geriatrics, organised by Heritage Hospital, Hyderabad, in collaboration with the International Institute of Ageing (INIA), a UN agency, at the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH) in Secunderabad.

The INIA Director, Fredrick F. Fenech, said that in 1968 Malta had put forth a proposal to include aging in the UN agenda. The Deputy Director, Joseph Troisy, said Asia, like the rest of the world was aging fast because of two most populous countries, China and India.

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