A Guide to Senior Citizen Housing In India

The problem — Changing sands of family dynamics.

The last decade has seen the sudden blossoming of retirement communities or senior citizen housing across India. From being a country that preferred looking after the senior citizens and keeping them at home, India is slowly shifting to becoming a country accepting the fact that with changing times come changing mindsets. Today, children across the country leave home to pursue their dream life, be it education or a career, in other cities or other countries. The move away from home forces them to leave their parents behind to fend for themselves, becoming a constant source of worry for children living hundreds and thousands of miles away. Being left to their defences often brings on depression and mental health issues arising out of loneliness for these citizens.

The answer — retirement communities or senior citizen housing

The solution to this problem was mushrooming several luxury senior housing facilities or retirement communities across the country’s length and breadth. Despite the several challenges developers and brands face, the number of retirement communities in India is only increasing. In a recent report, India’s leading industry body, the Confederation of Indian Industry, has estimated that by 2050, the number of elderly or retired citizens will reach a whopping 300 million and more.

The mindset of Indian society is fast-changing, and culture is now more accepting if senior citizens choose to live in any of the modern luxurious senior citizen housing communities. Senior housing facilities like Eden mirror the comforts of home while keeping their senior residents’ social, physical, mental, emotional, and health needs in mind. These senior citizen housing communities are usually situated close to Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Coimbatore and Dehradun, and reasonably large cities.

The makeup of retirement communities:

Most senior housing establishments or retirement communities like Eden, a luxury retirement community just outside the idyllic town of Dehradun, comprises a healthy mix of individual apartments or villas. Either of these choices of accommodation can either be bought outright or rented every month. Senior citizens choose any accommodation in Eden, and other similar retirement communities across India allow its residents to enjoy the comforts of a home without needing to worry about its maintenance or day-to-day functioning.

Both the apartment-style living, or villas homes come equipped with state-of-the-art safety features that allow the elderly a feeling of security, comfort and most importantly, convenience. Knowing that more than their basic needs are taken care of, senior citizens at Eden enjoy the freedom of interacting with people their age and lead an active and healthy life by all the facilities and premises present within the boundary walls of the retirement community itself. The residences at Eden come equipped with features like:

• Grab rails in most areas around the house to help them get around easily
• Conveniently located fixtures and fittings
• Emergency response systems
• Arthritis-friendly fittings
• Anti-skid tiles
• Modified wall edges designed to prevent injuries
• Wheelchair-friendly premises

Why should senior citizens choose Eden?

Most senior citizen housing communities today offer the same types if not better facilities than a lot of holiday resorts. Eden is one such property, situated in the foothills of the picturesque Himalayas surrounding its residents with lush greenery and a serene environment. Designed to remove its senior citizen residents from the noise and the rat race of city living, Eden provides a wealth of facilities like:

• Recreation centre
• Indoor and outdoor dining facilitie
• Infinity pool
• Jogging track
• Gym, and fitness centre
• Theatre
• Spa and salon
• Library, and so much more.

Luxury senior housing communities like Eden also offer:

• Rapid response emergency assistance and Round-the-clock emergency support
• Regular health check-ups,
• Fully trained nurses,
• Preventive care programs,
• 24×7 monitoring
• Physiotherapy
• Ayurveda
• Naturopathy
• Mediation and other therapies are also available to boost immunity and improve their overall health.

It is important to remember that this newly retired generation is more often than not more travelled, well-read, worldly-wise, physically, and financially more independent than earlier generations. After working non-stop throughout their lives, they can now decide when they want to slow down or retire completely from working and, most importantly, how, and where they want to spend the rest of their living years. Hence, many senior citizens are now taking charge of their destiny by moving to retirement homes or senior citizen housing communities like Eden. Away from daily responsibilities that followed them through each day of their working lives, senior citizens can finally slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves by living an active, happy, and dignified life at Eden in the twilight of their lives.