Ideal
Elderly Care Homes, by Shyam P Lohani (rn
10/01/2021)
Digital
Divide Hits Senior Citizens, by Namrata Sharma (rn
06/01/2021)
Old
lady found abandoned in Tinkune dies (rep
17/12/2020)
Senior
Citizen Free Treatment Fund Set Up (ht 10/11/2020)
Spared
at first, elderly hit hard by Covid-19 : The
coronavirus crisis has added to the hardships and
isolation of Nepal’s seniors, by Sonia Awale (nt
06/11/2020)
Old
age homes on high alert to prevent infections : As
Covid-19 continues to spread, facilities dedicated to
taking care of the elderly are adopting strict
measures, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 26/08/2020)
Protecting
elderly from pandemic discussed (rep 16/08/2020)
Helping
Aged People Survive The Pandemic, by Pratik Sharma
Lamichhane and Mahima Devkota (rn 01/06/2020)
Care
For Elderly People During Corona Crisis, by
Kalpana Poon (rn 02/05/2020)
Lockdown
takes a toll on senior citizens already vulnerable to
coronavirus: While some are worried about their
children abroad, others fear the shutdown will take
their life before the virus does, by Aditi Aryal
(kp 20/04/2020))
Senior
citizens to get Rs 10,000 per month (ht
23/03/2020)
Call
to ensure dignified life for senior citizens (ht
22/02/2020)
Placing
together for care: The elderly people can spend their
ending days with orphan children and such
intergenerational assimilation can change the social
outlook to understand generation gap, by Biranchi
Poudyal and Samikshya Thapa (rep 09/02/2020)
Call
to ensure 50 per cent discount for elderly in public
transport: Anyone who occupies seat reserved for the
elderly shall be fined Rs 1,000 (ht 06/02/2020)
Govt
to set up model villages for senior citizens, disabled
persons (ht 17/01/2020)
Ministry
develops procedure to run centres for elderly (ht
05/01/2020)
Senior
citizens, single women and people with disabilities
deprived of social security allowance in Siraha: They
have been protesting in front of the Bhagawanpur Rural
Municipality office for the past two days, by
Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 19/12/2019)
Senior
citizens deprived of facilities in public vehicles
(ht 08/12/2019)
Elderly,
disabled deprived of social security allowance (ht
07/12/2019)
A
day care centre in Khalanga is a blessing for senior
citizens: The idea behind the centre is to create an
environment of learning and sharing for senior
citizens, say authorities, by LP Devkota (kp
17/11/2019)
For
the elderly at the old-age home in Pashupati, Dashain
is among themselves: The old-age home celebrates the
festival in small ways—by providing the senior
citizens with a tika ceremony, a small cash gift and
new clothes to wear, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
04/10/2019)
Helambu
Rural Municipality to give allowance to widowers: The
local unit has allocated Rs 2 million for the scheme,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 02/10/2019)
In
Gabahal, the elderly stand in a queue for hours for
their old-age allowances: There is little space to
accommodate hundreds of elderly people who come to
take their allowances in just five days, according to
the Nepal Bank, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/10/2019)
Plan
for longer lives: Empowering older persons in all
dimensions of development, including promoting their
active participation in the social, economic and
political lives, is one way to ensure their
inclusiveness and reduce inequalities, by Ramesh
Kandel (ht 01/10/2019)
At
an old age home in Biratnagar, there’s no one to carry
the dead: Every time a death occurs in Birateshwore
Briddhashram, the staff fret about how to ferry the
dead body to the funeral site, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 10/09/2019)
Without
specialised care, older adults deprived of basic
health care facilities: A lack of geriatric services
has been affecting the senior citizens of Nepal in
availing of proper geriatric care, by Sachitra
Gurung (kp 29/08/2019)
Disabled
senior citizens have to travel far to get social
security allowance: The government has made it
mandatory for beneficiaries to receive their allowance
through banks, by Abadesh Kumar Jha (kp
29/07/2019)
Things
are improving at the Pashupati Home for the Elderly,
but conditions remain bleak: New regulations and
improvements in facilities and infrastructure have
been instituted, but much more could be done, by
Alisha Sijapati (kp 27/07/2019)
People
above 80 receive free health service at doorstep:
Health workers in Dhankuta have been visiting homes of
senior citizens every four months to provide them the
medical services, by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp
13/07/2019)
Senior
citizens bill: ‘Family, govt roles must be balanced’,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 30/06/2019)
Elderly
people left alone in villages to fend for themselves,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 29/06/2019)
Senior
citizens in rural areas deprived of citizenship
certificate: Without citizenship, people are denied
job opportunities and social security allowances,
by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 14/06/2019)
Senior
citizens welcome increase in allowance, but say they
are not fully happy: Government has increased senior
citizen allowance by Rs 1,000, by Anup Ojha (kp
30/05/2019)
Deputy
PM for raising elderly allowance to Rs 5,000: There is
no rationale for increment: Economists (rep
02/05/2019)
Shelter
for
elderly: It is time to promote the concept of quality
shelter homes in recognition of the immense
contribution of the elderly to the country (ht
26/04/2019)
NHRC
tells govt to ease woes of elderly (ht 25/04/2019)
Establish
at least one geriatric hospital in each province: NHRC
(ht 11/04/2019)
A
happy place for elderly, helpless people: Modibeni
Dham, by Chhabilal Tiwari (rep 02/04/2019)
Measuring
population ageing: From evidence to action, by
Jhabindra Bhandari (ht 15/03/2019)
Cops
rehabilitate 150 homeless elderly people (ht
23/01/2019)
Bill
requires children to allocate portion of income to
elderly parents, by Ashok Dahal (rep 11/01/2019)
Elderly
care:
Give them love and respect; Lessons you learn from caring
children and elderly are far more enriching than what you
learn during school and university studies combined, by
Usha Pokharel (rep 05/01/2019)
Government
paves way for tabling bill to amend Senior Citizens Act in
Parliament (ht 04/01/2019)
Many
elderly care centres only in paper: Rights body, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 08/12/2018), NHRC
tells government to improve living conditions in
elderly homes (ht 09/12/2018), An
age-old problem: Our senior citizens deserve better
(kp 10/12/2018)
Ageing
and
the elderly: Families, communities and governments all need
to find new ways to deal with a rising elderly population,
by Ramesh Kandel (kp 06/12/2018)
Elderly
hopeful of allowance after getting citizenship (rep
04/11/2018)
How
to
design our cities to make them age friendly? With the
growing pace of development, our city is expanding resulting
in urban slums, often difficult to plan and manage, by
Srijana Koirala (rep 03/11/2018)
44pc
more women in elderly homes than men (ht 29/10/2018)
Over
2.5 million people leave Kathmandu (kp 17/10/2018),
by Agandhar Tiwari (kp 17/10/2018)
Pashupati
home unfit for elderly folks (kp 13/10/2018)
Caregiving
for elderly: Training is crucial, by Prapti Gautam (ht
20/09/2018)
Elderly
to receive health services at home, by Sabita Shrestha
(rep 21/08/2018)
Caring
for
those who cared: As the young migrate, growing demand for
home care for their parents reshapes health services in
Nepal, by Sikuma Rai (nt 17/08/2018)
Age
is
just a number: At the dusks of their lives, a group of
senior citizens are finally going to school,
discovering a pool of confidence they never thought
existed in the process, by Abijeet Pant (kp
07/07/2018)
KMC
opens
first leisure centre for elderly folk: Mayor Bidhya
Sundar Shakya says similar recreational centre for
senior citizens will be built in all 32 wards of the
city, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/06/2018)
Senior
citizens want easy access to allowance, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 27/04/2018)
Senior
citizens want allowance delivered at home, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 03/04/2018)
Govt
'shelves' decision to reduce age threshold for elderly
allowance (rep 02/04/2018)
Elderly
persons in care homes do not get state benefits,
by Pratap Bista (kp 22/02/2018)
Care,
not allowance: Instead of addressing real problems,
parties are competing to increase elderly allowance,
by Purna B. Thapa (rep 18/02/2018)
Senior
folk demand pension hike (kp 13/02/2018)
Citizens
can now claim elderly allowance at 65 (kp
25/01/2018)
Being
old is no crime, by Usha Pokharel (rep 20/01/2018)
Elderly
want promises fulfilled (rep 18/01/2018)
Legal
provisions on needs of elderly not adequate : Report
(ht 07/01/2018)
Elderly
elated
to get allowance at home: Although the government had
introduced the allowance for the welfare of senior
citizens, they had to struggle a lot for the little
amoount, by Yogesh Rawal (rep 24/10/2017)
Construction
of Biratnagar elderly home in limbo (ht 16/10/2017)
200,000
senior citizen ID cards distributed in two years (ht
07/10/2017)
Honouring
The Senior Citizens, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
06/10/2017)
No
respite: Rapid outmigration has made late-life scenarios
much harder for Nepal’s elderly population in rural
areas, by Menaka Hamal (kp 03/10/2017)
Elderly
underfed, neglected at Pashupati old age home, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 18/09/2017)
Old
age
home demands additional nurses (ht 30/08/2017)
Senior
citizens
receive allowance: 28 people get elderly benefits on
opening day of KMC service, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/07/2017)
Turning
Promise Into Action, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
26/05/2017)
Kathmandu’s
Geriatric
Home In Mess, by Kanhalya Mathema (rn 19/05/2017)
Elderly
denied
social security allowance (ht 31/03/2017)
Erosion
of
family values hits grey population: Over 1,700 elderly
are living in old age homes across the country (ht
24/03/2017)
Army
chief
Chhetri inaugurates old age homes (kp 16/02/2017), NAWF
funded
geriatric village to provide alternative care to elderly
(ht 16/02/2017)
Disabled,
elderly
at Parbat village get benefit cards, by Agandhar
Tiwari (kp 12/01/2017)
Senior
citizens
deprived of allowance (kp 09/10/2016)
Elderly
demand
50pc discount on fares (kp 03/10/2016)
No
allowance
for senior citizens before Dashain (kp 03/10/2016)
Ageing
population
both cause for celebration and a challenge: UNFPA
(ht 01/10/2016)
Don’t
forget
them: Problem of Alzheimer’s disease in the country is
bound to worsen with the increase in life expectancy,
by Sharad Koirala (kp 20/09/2016)
Senior
citizens
facing hard time, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
18/09/2016)
A
crutch for elderly: By helping the elderly
proactively, we will be safeguarding their future and,
in turn, our own, by Manoj Bhattarai (kp
16/09/2016)
Fifty
and
beyond: It is important to change social perceptions
about ageing and recognise contributions elders can
make, by Samridhi Rana Thapa (kp 04/09/2016)
SASCWG
established
in Kathmandu (ht 31/07/2016)
Senior
citizens
demand hike in allowance: Say they should be provided
Rs 5,000 a month (kp 28/07/2016)
Old-age
homes, by Ramesh Pant (kp 03/07/2016)
Revering
Senior Citizens, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
11/05/2016)
Elderly
citizens
demand old age home (ht 25/04/2016)
Elderly
continue
sit-in for more social security: Fifteen of the
demonstrators have died since protests began 3 years
ago, by Pratichya Dulal (kp 04/04/2016)
Elderlies
rely
on allowance, by Purna BK (kp 15/02/2016)
Senior
citizens
press demands for facilities: Social Welfare Ministry
pledges to introduce benefit schemes (kp
13/02/2016)
Free
health
camp brings respite to ailing elderly, by Kisan
Sangeet Nepali (rep 25/01/2016)
House
panel
mulls hiking senior citizens’ allowance (kp
14/01/2016)
Senior
citizens
deprived of allowance, by Aagandhar Tiwari (kp
20/10/2015)
Kathmandu
to
become elderly-friendly city (kp 20/10/2015)
The
forgotten
folks: Nepal must do more to address the needs of its
senior citizens, by Chun Bahadur Gurung (kp
06/10/2015)
Elderly
complain
of difficulties: Municipality official says they are
unable to provide allowance at the doorstep (kp
30/08/2015)
Quake
injured
senior citizens left in lurch (kp 23/08/2015)
UK-based
family
runs old age home in Damak, by Chetan Adhikari (kp
20/08/2015)
The
elderly
stance, by Priyanka Gurung (rep 14/08/2015)
Limited
validity
passports for elderly, children mulled (ht
02/08/2015)
Government
to
increase allowance for the elderly (kp 09/07/2015),
Senior
citizens
unhappy with allowance raise (kp 18/07/2015), State
ignored
our voices: Senior citizens (ht 18/07/2015)
Elderly
couple
‘expelled’ from house by children, by Aash Gurung
(kp 05/07/2015)
Social
security
allowance distribution halted in Kavre (ht
29/06/2015)
Remembering
dementia:
Nepal’s ageing population brings a new problem that
families and the government have little knowledge of,
by Kenji Kwok (nt 03/04/2015)
Elderly
abandoned
by their own children seek refuge in Devghat, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 23/03/2015)
Senior
citizens
accuse political leaders of cheating them (ht
10/03/2015)
Traveling
in
Valley to get 50 pc cheaper for elderly, by Sangeet
Sangroula (rep 28/02/2015)
Senior
Citizens’ Plight, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
18/02/2015)
Elderly
to
get 50pc discount on transport fare in Kathmandu (kp
05/02/2015), For
elderly,
city travel comes at half price now (ht 05/02/2015)
Old
age
problem: Non-Resident Nepalis should invest in an
organisation which looks after their aged parents back
home, by Khagendra N. Sharma (kp 18/01/2015)
Nowhere
to
go: Cast out from their homes, elederly parents feel let
down by their own children, by Arjun Oli (rep
10/01/2015)
NHRC
urges
govt to provide better geriatric support (kp
04/01/2015), Govt
told
to protectsenior citizens’ rights (ht 04/01/2015)
Collecting
allowance
a tough task: Senior citizens say banking system not
practical (ht 21/12/2014)
Team
to
look into senior citizens’ demands (kp 17/11/2014)
Elderly
couple
face social boycott over utility arrears, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 14/11/2014)
Elderly
to
get personal bank accounts soon (ht 01/11/2014)
Nepal
‘not
ready’ to take care of elderly, by Weena Pun (kp
13/10/2014), Focus
this
year on senior citizens (ht 13/10/2014), Elderly
need
more love, care and respect with flying time (ht
14/10/2014)
An
older
world: As South Asia is ageing faster than any region in
the world, preparations must be made, by Jhabindra
Bhandari (kp 01/10/2014)
Senior
citizens
to resume stir (kp 27/09/2014)
Banging
head
against wall: Goct unmoved by months-long struggle of
elderly and teachers for justice (rep 21/09/2014)
Old
age
allowance: Reform needed, by Ram Khadka (ht
26/08/2014), Old
enough:
Senior citizen protest (rep 28/08/2014)
Of
steely
resolve: 19 months on, agitating senior citizens remain
determined to force govt to meet their demands, by
Arjun Poudel (rep 25/08/2014)
‘First’
hospital
for elderly in Nuwakot (kp 25/08/2014)
KMC
to
establish clubs for senior citizens (ht
16/08/2014)
Senior
Citizens
Deserve To Age Gracefully, by Tika Raj Kafle (rn
15/07/2014)
Call
to
raise old-age allowance (kp 09/07/2014), Rights
body
asks govt to protect senior citizens’ rights (ht
09/07/2014), Elders’
demands (ht 09/06/2014)
Senior
citizens
warn of stern protests, self-immolations: Press govt
to address their key demands (ht 08/07/2014)
Senior
citizens'
welfare: Policies confined only to documents (ht
23/06/2014)
Society
For
All Ages, by Jhabindra Bhandari (kp 17/06/2014)
UN
World
Elder Abuse Awareness Day: Say No To Abuse Of Elderly,
by Bishnu Gautam (rn 15/06/2014)
MoWCSW
proposes
doubling elderly allowance (rep 01/06/2014)
Many
senior
citizens excluded from KMC's allowance scheme, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 27/05/2014)
Some
country
for old men: There is a marked dichotomy between how
Nepali society treats elder politicians and elder
creative professionals, by Abhi Subedi (kp
18/05/2014)
Support
the
elderly: More than 80 percent of the elderly live with
their children but the remaining are living at Old
Aged Homes or without shelter, by Vikash Raj
Satyal (rep 17/05/2014)
Plight
of
the elders: A humanitarian crisis, by Jayash
Paudel (ht 07/05/2014), Nowhere
To
Go: With the breakup of extended families, Nepal's
senior citizens are facing loneliness at least and
trauma at worst, by Nikki Sharma (sp 09/05/2014)
Heed
the
elderly: Policymakers have failed to initiate a
vibrant discussion to address the issues of the
elderly population, by Jayash Paudel (rep
23/04/2014)
Suicides
among
old on rise: Changing moral and social values blamed,
by Benupraj Bhattarai (rep 17/04/2014)
Elderly
to
block road for 50 pc discount (rep 05/04/2014)
KMC
plans
to distribute senior citizen allowance from mid-April,
by Samik Kharel (kp 01/04/2014)
Senior
citizens
deprived of social security allowance (ht
19/02/2014)
Elderly
living
in 133-year-old building, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
(ht 09/02/2014)
No
country
for the old: It is the duty of the young to take care
of the elderly, by Niranjan Khatiwada (kp
02/02/2014)
KMC’s
elderly
benefit scheme, by Samik Kharel (kp 29/01/2014)
Comforting
melodies:
Elderly sit-in for state facilities gets musical boost
(kp 15/01/2014)
Not
enough
caregivers at old-age home (ht 09/01/2014)
Discount
on
transport fare: Misread provision hits elderly
travellers, by Weena Pun (kp 07/01/2014)
Senior
citizens’
pleas fall on govt deaf ears: Their agitation enters
ninth month (ht 27/12/2013)
Elderly
in
west call for easy access to allowance (ht
15/12/2013)
Age-old
problems:
The rights of senior citizens must be seen and ensured
through a human rights perspective, by Sangita
Nirola (kp 10/12/2013)
Elderly
Continue
Protest Demanding Transport Fare Concession, by
Pratibha Rawal (rep 07/12/2013)
Empowering
the
elderly: Proof of citizenship has become key; yet,
vulnerable groups are struggling to get their
citizenship cards, by Sony K.C. (kp 22/11/2013)
Elders
welfare:
Parties make rosy promises (ht 03/11/2013)
Abandoned
Elderly
Feel Sad During Festivals, by Anjali Subedi (rep
23/10/2013)
Senior
citizens
rally for rights (ht 21/10/2013)
Old-age
provisions
win accolades, by Manish Gautam (kp 08/10/2013), Needy
denied
grants in lack of identification, by Weena Pun (kp
08/10/2013)
HelpAge
International:
Helping Elderly; At a time when international community
are stressing to respect senior citizen, the state of
Nepalese elderly people are very much pathetic (sp
04/10/2013)
Elderly
see
no reason to celebrate, by Pratibha Rawal (rep
03/10/2013)
Report
says
Nepal among worst places to grow old, by Manish
Gautam (kp 02/10/2013), Still
deprived
of basic facilities (kp 02/10/2013)
Senior
citizens
demand more seats, discount in public vehicles, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 30/09/2013)
Conference
to
highlight elders’ plight (ht 25/08/2013)
Senior
citizens,
disabled people to get KMC allowances (ht
15/08/2013)
The
forgotten
ones: A long-term vision for the elderly cannot be
limited to an allowance, by Sony K.C. (kp
16/07/2013)
ADA
Campaign
For Senior Citizens, by Bishnu Gautam (rn
15/06/2013)
50
per
centtreatment fee waiver for elderly on the cards
(ht 13/04/2013)
Army
‘caretaker’
of old age home, by Basanti Bastola and Janu Pangeni
(kp 24/03/2013)
Treatment
fee
for senior citizens to be waived (ht 12/02/2013)
Elderly
deprived
of medical allowance, by Mohan Budhair (kp
21/12/2012)
Walking
for
nothing: The government should fix the date and place
for distributing the old age allowance, by Sony K.C.
(kp 09/12/2012)
Senior
citizen
allowance to be increased to Rs 750 a month (kp
07/11/2012)
Senior
citizens
face hard time collecting monthly allowance ‘In such
long course of waiting,it has become a burden rather
than an economic aid’ (ht 21/10/2012)
Protecting
the
aged, by Ashish Thapa Magar (rep 06/10/2012)
Prez
call
to govt to safeguard elderly (kp 02/10/2012)
Giving
up
on grannies: As Nepal's population ages, thousands of
elderly Nepalis find themselves orphaned, by Dambar
Krishna Shrestha (nt 28/09/2012)
Pit
falls
of old age: As the healthcare needs of the elderly are
clearly different than the general population, finding
compassionate and caring doctors is vital, by Buddha
Basnyat (nt 31/08/2012)
Getting
govt
allowance painful for senior citizens (ht
21/06/2012)
Averting
old
age crisis in Nepal, by Nimisha Bhattarai and Meena
Bhattarai (nn 21/06/2012)
A
better tomorrow: Addressing elder abuse, by Ashish
Thapa Magar (rep 16/06/2012)
No
country
for the old: Plight of the elderly needs to be listened
to in a changing Nepal (kp 08/06/2012)
Alternative
ends:
Hospice Nepal offers palliative care to the
terminally-ill who have exhausted curative options
during the course of their sickness, by Anup Ojha
(kp 21/04/2012)
Fare
concession
for elderly only on paper, by Anjali Subedi (rep
20/(04/2012)
Abandoned
by
children, elderly mother longs to see them again, by
Anjali Subedi (rep 15/04/2012)
Do
we
care? More needs to be done to take proper care of the
growing elderly population in Nepal, by Bijan Pant (rep
27/03/2012)
Orphaned
at
old age: More grandparents feel less grand as they cross the
60's line, by Paavan Mathema (nt 02/03/2012)
Caring
for
the elderly: New Nepal, old problems, by Bijan Pant (rep
14/01/2012), Old
habit:
Elderly people in Nepal have long been ignored and neglected
when it comes to policy-making process, by Bijan Pant
(rep 28/01/2012)
The
changing
social fabric: Moving with the tide imperative, by
Birbhadra Acharya (ht 12/01/2012)
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