Retirement Communities for Senior Citizens in India

As a career persons you have faced trials and tribulations to raise your family; as a parent, you have the responsibility to educate your children and celebrating their marriage; and supporting their family life. Now they have migrated to different locations and keen in their own career and family. Have you ever felt the loneliness (psychologists named this as empty nest syndrome) since your children live in a geographically distant locations (may be in India or abroad).

As a senior citizen do you feel the life of aging and scared or much confident in adopting a different lifestyle to lead an active, happy and meaningful life? If you opt for a different lifestyle, then you may discover the privilege of staying in an apartment or in a luxurious villa and spend the rest of your life. You will wake up in the morning by hearing chirping birds. Taste the aroma filled morning coffee on the patio. Feel the comforts of lush greenery around. Laze your morning or feel the enthusiasm driving you for a fast walk around the estate. In short you will not better life than this.

Yes. Senior citizens are encouraged to opt for retirement communities. The gated community is aiming to offer you a new lifestyle suitable to your needs. This concept is very popular in the western countries and the idea of promoting retirement community projects catching the imagination of real estate promoters in Chennai. The term retirement community make us to understand about homes designed in different formats to suit the lifestyles of senior citizens or retirees. The offer of such living space is restricted only for the privileged few who can afford. It is a luxury to be enjoyed.

The retirement communities are planned for specific purposes and it is an abode for senior citizens. Here you can enjoy the extensive facilities like:

1. Common kitchen and dining hall
2. Community hall & Reading room
3. Domestic help (Exclusive)
4. Drug Store
5. Door-step Banking
6. Garden
7. House-keeping
8. Maintenance staff
9. On-site medical facilities
10. Open-air theater
11. Parking Area
12. Provision Store
13. Telecom Facility
14. Temples and Worship places

The aim is to extend service and care of the inn mates. The retirement communities are categorized into three classes:
(1) Active inn mates who lead an independent life. They need accommodation and occasional health care;
(2) Partially Supportive inn mates who are in need of accommodation and frequent health care; and
(3) Fully Supportive inn mates who are constantly in need of health (nursing) care and accommodation.

The independent houses or apartments can be availed through outright purchase or hired under lease. The hustles of shopping, banking, cooking, house-keeping are relieved here. You will get healthy food and the maintenance staff will take care of your regular security and house keeping tasks. Periodical medical diagnostic check-ups and screening tests will have vigilance on your health. You will have improved health, a better state of mind and an extended life span.

Reference:
1. Retirement Community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_community
2. Living the good life The Hindu Sep 04, 2010 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-propertyplus/article977958.ece
3. A retreat for the retired The Hindu December 25, 2010 http://www.hindu.com/pp/2010/09/04/stories/2010090450020200.htm