Our Work
‘Adding Life to Years’
‘Vriddha Mitra’ is a flagship initiative of a not-for-profit organization SCHOOL (Society of Community Health Oriented Operational Links) which focuses on building an age friendlyecosystem for the elderly population in India.
The seven key pillars of this initiative are:
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Improving reach by implementing community based projects for bottom of the pyramid elderly population.
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Creating helpline, day care centers, physio-therapy clinics for providing support to the elderly people.
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Advocating for building age-friendly cities/ localities
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Sensitizing the younger generation on the issues of elderly people and creating inter-generational dialogue
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Offering a robust, City or District specific plan of action for healthy ageing with the involvement of all stakeholders;
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Providing and share local and global perspectives on a wide variety of healthy ageing issues
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Providing a multi-stakeholder platform that supports the successful implementation of concrete activities and programmes and enables partnering to achieve more together than any organization or institution could achieve alone.
