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Home for elderly people in Nepal 


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The existing and increasing population of aged people is becoming one of the problems that Nepal has been facing in recent years. Due to these increasing aged people, various countries have also started building Old Aged Homes to promote the well being of aged people. The aged people above 75 years have been 184 thousand and it has reached 234 thousand people this year. This group of people and their number would be 310 thousand people by the year 2011.

The Pashupati Bridhashram (old home) is the largest old home in Katmandu run by the government. There are 230 residents, 140 of them women and 90 of them are man. It has always lack of fund for food. Several old aged homes have been developed in Nepal in recent years to rehabilitate the elderly people for their welfare.