• Disadvantages (gender, caste, poverty)

• Rapid ageing, shrinking joint families

• Familism: duty & taboo

• Role strain & hidden neglect

• MWPSC Act (2007)

• Weak enforcement & rural gaps

• Attachment rupture → emotional neglect

• Weak social support → isolation

• Caregiver burden → resentment/abuse

• Income security (pensions, transfers)

• Community & SHGs

• Geriatric/mental health & respite care

• Legal empowerment & monitoring

• Active: desertion

• Passive: negligence

• Exclusion from love & decisions

• Mental health neglect

• Failure of state & policy

• Poorly resourced homes

• Depression, morbidity, mortality

• Homelessness, rights violations

• Intergenerational distrust