Govt developing 'Senior Citizen Experience Bank'
Summary
The government is developing a 'Senior Citizen Experience Bank' to preserve and pass on older people's knowledge, skills, and life lessons to younger generations. The initiative will use digital technology to record experiences in fields such as agriculture, entrepreneurship, education, and arts and culture.
Key Points
- The Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security has forwarded a process to develop a 'Senior Citizen Experience Bank'.
- The initiative aims to preserve senior citizens' life-long knowledge, skills, experiences and life lessons for the next generation using digital technology.
- Minister Sita Badi said older people should be seen as respected partners and knowledge-givers, not only as recipients of care and protection.
- The ministry says changing family structures, migration, urbanization, and lifestyle have created new challenges for the health, care, and social participation of senior citizens.
