The rights of old age persons are no different from the rights of any other person. Due to their physical and mental frailty or disability, they need proper care, attention, and supervision. Discrimination, neglect, abuse, etc., based on age, often pose a threat to the realization of their rights. Moreover, abandonment and destitution also lead to numerous physical, psychological, and social issues that challenge their sense of self and capacity to live happily. The problem is more severe among the low-income communities where the lack of resources and access further aggravates their conditions.

As much as it is essential for everyone, good quality of life is specifically crucial for old age persons and young children dealing with chronic health conditions or significant life changes. In recent years, old age homes comprising of homes, facilities, and services designed to serve the changing needs of seniors over time have gained acceptance among the significant section of the society.

Through this project, Samast Mahajan aims to build an orphanage and old age home for children and old age persons, respectively. The project seeks to take care of their health, food, hygiene, nutrition, and shelter related needs. Access to adequate medical care will be ensured to counter the adverse effects of illness or disability through regular medical health checkups and designated medical staff. The food and nutritious related need of the senior citizens will also be adequately taken care of.

Thus, the project aims to establish an appropriate mechanism to provide need-based maintenance to the children and senior citizens through all this. The cost of providing care to one individual is 36,000/- per annum.

In simple societies, catering and responding to an individual's need was easier. With the advent of neo-liberal market forces and the subsequent ushering in of complexities in our daily lives, the traditional family system has taken different forms. Though these changes have immensely impacted all age groups, senior citizens, particularly, are being flung into a sort of crisis mired with loneliness, deteriorating sense of self, isolation, loss of dignity, loss of agency, abuse, and so on. To tackle these, old age homes are cropping up across the countries to provide need-based care and support to old age persons.