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As India ages, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children.
Growing number of older Indians now have absentee children and inadequate help to keep up with expenses or care.
Growing lifespans have brought ballooning caregiving pressure, a wave of urbanization has driven many young.
Growing Western influence has begun eroding the tradition of multigenerational living.
Rajhu Phooljale was hit by a motorist and left initially unable to walk and permanently blinded.
His sons told him they arranged for surgery in New Delhi , far from their home in the country’s center, but they never returned.
It has been about two years since then and he has not heard anything from his sons.
The stories of the abandoned are often incomplete, riddled with holes punched by time.
Most older people in India do not receive a pension, government assistance or health insurance.
Men outnumber women; many are in declining health; most have outlived their spouse, a crucial line of protection.
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