The Felt Need of Home-based Geriatric Care in Bangladesh

Aging is an emerging issue in Bangladesh, yet adequate infrastructures, policies, programs and services are not there to cater to the needs of the growing number of elderly persons in the country. Although aging is a personal concern in many ways, but coping with this demographic shift does not come down to individual effort only. Rather, it calls for a comprehensive approach– on the part of state, communities, institutions and organizations. As an institutional government welfare approach to geriatric nursing and care for this large population remains a costly proposition, and family is the first and foremost arena for addressing different issues of elderly persons, an education and training curriculumfacilitated community/family/home-based geriatric care system is recommended which may be more affordable, cost-saving, cost-effective, interactive, humane and inclusive. We have to prepare ourselves, to handle this emerging inevitable stage of the population, which we all, someday, will be a part of.

Author(s): Hasnain Sabih Nayak

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