1st October, 2024 marked completion of 1 year of implementation of Prabal Yatra – a community based approach towards enabling healthy ageing in southern Rajasthan. We conducted block-level events and invited older persons registered as members, local representatives and government officials. This was done to look back at the work done in the past year and take suggestions on how we can do better while moving forward.
While sharing progress of the programme, we motivated all present to share their views on issues related to older persons – access to social security schemes, health status of older persons, self-care during old age, among others.
Some older persons shared issues with accessing their pensions, to which present government officials shared processes and solutions. Some guests suggested that there was a need for greater awareness among older persons on schemes and services available for them. They also motivated older persons to empower themselves and take benefit of the schemes available.
