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It all began with a phone call…

Back in early 2015, a phone call to Bharat Times triggered a well of emotion.  An elderly couple from India, who were visiting Australia at the time, were being thrown out by their own children. The elderly couple had to come live with their children who had settled here and had wound up everything in India.  “We didn’t realize that our own children, after taking everything we had from us, would turn their back on us… where can we get some help… we will have no place to stay tomorrow morning…”. The elderly man was unable to stop choking on the phone, telling their sad story. The news from India of some really graphic cases of neglect and abuse of elderly had hit home harder and gave us the reason to establish a volunteer service called Help the Elderly.

The group was formally organised in 2016 when Melbourne based Indian community publication Bharat Times provided resources and leadership in January 2016. Five years on, we are a group of volunteer professionals – lawyers, sociologists, mental health specialists, community leaders who give their valuable time to deliver help to our elderly. 

If we had our way, all our elderly will  live their lives the way they want to live, not suffering in silence.

Old Age is Golden:

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Government of India Helps

Emblem of India

The law imposing responsibility of maintenance of the parents and seniors on their children extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and it applies also it citizens of India outside India.

Under the law:

  • “children” includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter
  • “maintenance” includes provisions for food, clothing, residence and medical attendance and treatment;
  • “parent” means father or mother whether biological, adoptive or step father or step mother, as the case may be, whether or not the father or the mother is a senior citizen;
  • “property” means property of any kind, whether movable or immovable, ancestral or self acquired, tangible or intangible and includes rights or interests in such property;
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Throwing Parents Out
Throwing Parents Out
Posted by Nathan Rang Raj
Throwing Parents Out: This ...
Abandoned
Abandoned
Posted by Dave Mehra
Abandoned: An elderly mother ...
Nanhi Neend
Nanhi Neend
Posted by Nathan Rang Raj
Nanhi Neend:- Nanhi Neend - a ...

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