This entry was posted by Katyayani on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 and is filed under Elder Abuse, Elder Care, India, NGO, Old Age Homes, Senior Citizens.

16 Responses to “Old Age Homes in Kolkata”

1. JANICE MCCARTHY on June 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

   IN 1920 I HAD A RELATIVE A CLEMANTINA MCCARTHY WHO WAS AN INMATE AND DIED.AND WAS BURIED THERE.
   IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET ANY DETAILS ,
   WAS THERE ANY RELATIVES . IT WAS MOVING TO HEAR OF HER CIRCUMSTANCES,

2. JANICE MCCARTHY on June 16th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

   IT WAS ST JOSEPHS CALCUTTA

3. News India on September 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   thanks for providing all the addresses but if children give lil bit more respect to their parents…thn there will be no need of any old age home

4. Katyayani on September 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

   very true !

5. mirra aggarwal on October 18th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

   my mother needs to stay in old home in kolkata. can you guide me

6. Jayasri Hart on October 29th, 2008 at 5:30 am

   We don’t need “homes” but “communities,” where senior residents make their own decisions about how to run it. Adult children and grandchildren can and will happily get involved if the parents want it, but ultimately it is the seniors who own the home. If any of the above institutions fits this description, I would like to support it in any way I can.

7. suhita on November 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

   Dear Mira ,
   There is a newly comissioned old home by Helpage India at Chetla , Kolkata . When I visited it during Puja, it had 5 members only . Women of the age group 60-70 can apply. They have to be literate .
   It was nice cosy place

8. Ruprekha Chowdhury on January 29th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

   Dear Janice,

   Your account of your relative being sheltered at St. Joseph’s Home is very moving. I am a grad student currently writing my doctoral disseratation on elderly women living in old age homes in Kolkata. Would you be able to provide a basic history on the first old age home considered to be established in Kolkata? Also, would you be able to narrate your story about your relative, particularly your first hand experience with St. Joseph’s Home, via email? That would be truly helpful indeed.

   My hunch matches yours–it could be no other institution other than Little Sisters of the Poor. But i just wanted to be doubly sure, since i put these as ethnographic accounts in my dissertation chapter.
   I look forward to hearing from you.

   SIncerely,
   Ruprekha

9. janette mccarthy on February 10th, 2009 at 2:01 am

   In researching my ancestry i found a gt,gt, great grandfather Washington McCarthy married a Clemantina Fox in Meerut. in 1862, in my searches i find him dying apart in 1881, and Clemantina dying in The Little Sisters Of The Poor., Also not sure as her name has been recorded as Fox And Jose. Sounds portugese to me. Washington was born in Constantinople of Irish parents, was in the 2nd Dragoons stationed at meerut, took part of the seige of Lucknow, I believe there would be Mccarthys in India today as decendants although most of them returned to the U.K. It is in the indian records i found this information. i.e. marriage certificates, and chilren born in India. . Is this what you wanted. No replys from St Josephs have been received.

   Janice McCarthy

10. Udatto Chakravarty on April 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Im a man of 38 doing business in Kolkata and Ive got my parents and wife and a daughter. Suddenly I feel to do something for the aged angels of old age homes with my limited means. Plz help.

11. Ruprekha Chowdhury on May 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Dear Janice,

    Thank you so much for your informative post. Unfortunately, I do not check this website that frequently, hence, my tardy response. My apologies. Would you have an email address where I can write in details about my work and what I am looking for?
    My work took me to various old age homes both public and private, in and around Kolkata. I am trying to locate the first old age home established in Kolkata. Your post about your distant relative attracted my attention and that was when I thought of writing to you. I would really appreciate if we can further our conversation over emails. My dissertation would immensely benefit from your first hand account!

    Best,
    Ruprekha

12. DM BHATTACHARYYA on October 10th, 2009 at 1:57 am

    I am a casual resident of Ramkrishna Oldage Home in Hooghly district for the last ten years. . I have found that infirm old people who could not disbelief their children/relatives and handed over their life-time savings and property to them (children or relatives) in no time those simple hearted people are thrown to oldage homes. So, my humble advice to the old people who are about to leave their homes to take shelter in oldage home that keep your assets under your control. The assets mainly cash will lookafter you better than your past residence. With regards.

13. ramadevi poddar on November 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am

    i have three brother and i m small what heppen ourat ourat ka dushman hota hai koi bhi ma ko rakhna nahi chata please help me kya karu. koi sasta sunder old age ka naumber ya giud kare

14. DM BHATTACHARYYA on November 5th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Dear Ramadeviji,

    You may contact phone no:(033) 26860546 of an moderate oldage home just 3km on the western side of Chinsurah station (towards Delhi Road). It will be better to live there away from Gharki ki Dushman. With best wishes.

15. Ishita Mukherjee on January 1st, 2010 at 8:38 am

    I plan to take early retirement and would like to give company to the elderly in the old age home. Do one need some basic course to be initiated?
    Though currently I live in Pune, would like to be associated in Kolkata, my home town.

    Can anybody please guide me?

    Regards, and wish every one, a very happy new year.

16. D.M.Bhattacharyya on February 1st, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    Dear Ishita Didi,
    I congratulate you for your plan to serve old people after your retirement.Accept me as your Dada (76 years), an widower having one son MA, Bed.HM of a Boys’ school and one daugher MSc,Bed, HM of a Girls’ school. Even then, I am retaining a single room with attached bath) in an Oldage Home in a village in Hooghly district near Chinsurah paying whole years’ charges. Time to time I go there for a fortnight or so. What I have seen there, that many of the residents require compassion which is a lost coin to them.So far I ascertained, there is no such training at your age. You may contact Ramkrishna Mission, Belur Math or ‘Astharag” (near Majherhat bridge) managed by Wivies of Port Commissioners’ Officers Welfare Association.

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