Discuss the challenges faced by the aged people in receiving 'elder care'. (Answer in 150 words)

- Discuss the challenges faced by the aged people in receiving 'elder care'. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
The old are increasing faster than any arrangement for caring for them.
Body
1. Why elder care has become a problem at all: Those above sixty are about a tenth of the population, longer lives have stretched dependence, and falling fertility has shrunk the generation that once absorbed it.
2. The challenges within the family and household: Care is assumed to be the family's work, but that family has changed: households are smaller, sons migrate, and the daughter-in-law who provides it is now often employed. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act of 2007 makes filial support a legal duty, an admission that the moral duty has weakened.
3. The challenges outside it: Most old people worked informally and hold no pension, and central old-age assistance is a token monthly sum. The health system is built for acute illness, not chronic care, and geriatric services barely exist.
4. Which of them weigh heaviest: Income insecurity and the absence of long-term care, both falling hardest on widows.
Conclusion
The deficit is institutional, not moral: nothing public was built for those years.