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The Elderly Care Index: Bihar ranks 3rd in the ‘age country’ category

Patna: Bihar has emerged as the third goal scorer when providing quality of life to elderly people in the ‘age country’ category.
Revealed in a recent report – ‘index for quality of life for the elderly – released by the economic advisory board to PM.
The report classifies the ‘age country’ as those who have an elderly population of more than 5 million.
The country has a total score of 51.82, while the top two states – Rajasthan and Maharashtra – have scored 54.61 and 53.31, respectively.
This report has been prepared by the Institute of Competitiveness to reflect the challenges of aging in this country and determine the country’s readiness to deal with increasing elderly populations.
The index is assessed on 45 indicators on the welfare of the elderly, including four pillars – finance, social welfare, health systems and income security.
Other parameters include economic empowerment, achievement of education and work, social status, physical and social guarantee, basic health, possible psychological and environmental welfare.
Sudhanshu Kumar, an economist at the center of economic and financial policy, Patna, said Bihar had not done well on all parameters, but it was still better than other countries.

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