Ishaan Khanna, CEO of Antara Assisted Care Services, explains the rationale behind installing motion sensor lighting in senior living homes.
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Khanna: India is unprepared for a looming, massive caregiver shortage
“As our world tends to age, we will probably end up in a situation where we won't have enough caregivers. Caregiving is going to be a massive issue. And that's clearly India is not prepared for it. We don't have enough trained caregivers. We don't have enough c…”
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Khanna: India Will Have World's Largest Senior Population in Few Years
“We will, whether we like it or not, in a few years have the largest senior population in the world.”
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Khanna estimates that 99% of cyber frauds target senior citizens
“See, seniors are a very vulnerable population, especially when it comes to interface with technology, using so many cyber frauds that happen mostly. I think 99% of them are with seniors.”
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Khanna: India will inevitably become the largest senior care market
“Now coming to India being the largest market, I don't think there's a choice, but it will be the largest market. For two reasons. As we are almost the most populous country in the world, we will have the highest population of seniors, and hence both the privat…”
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Khanna: India will export geriatric caregiving talent globally in a few years
“We will be exporting some of this talent as well. Like, just take for example, tech. We are exporting so much talent in tech. What stops us from being that in a few years from now, where we'll be exporting talent for geriatric caregiving.”
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Khanna: Aging is non-linear and often involves sudden exponential declines
“Aging is not a linear process. We feel that a 50 to a 60 to a 70 to a 80, the aging will move in a certain graph. It doesn't. It comes with its own blips. And sometimes the crash is very, very exponential.”