HelpAge India

HelpAge India is one of India's leading NGOs working exclusively for the elderly, with more than three decades of work supporting disadvantaged senior citizens. Headquartered in New Delhi, HelpAge India provides healthcare, agecare, livelihood, and advocacy support to elders across the country, reaching over 2 million lives in 2025-26 alone. The organisation works to ensure that elders, particularly those who are poor, isolated, or without family support, can live active, healthy, and dignified lives, addressing everything from doorstep medical care to disaster relief to policy advocacy on elder rights.

Domain Areas

• Healthcare (Primary Healthcare, Vision Restoration & Correction, Mental Health, Telehealth, Palliative Care)
• Agecare (Elder Helplines, Senior Care Homes, Active Ageing Centres, Physiocare, Caregiving, Mobility Aids, Support a Gran, Elder Help Desks)
• Livelihoods & Resilience (Elder Self Help Groups, Disaster Management)
• Awareness & Advocacy (Training Workshops, SAVE, Policy Advocacy, Research)

Major Initiatives & Programmes

• Elder Helplines: A support and guidance system fielding distress calls and connecting elders to services.
• Active Ageing Centres: Community spaces encouraging connection and participation among seniors.
• Elder Self Help Groups: Building financial and social security by helping elders become income-independent.
• SAVE (Student Action for Value Education): An intergenerational programme engaging young people in elder-care values.
• Disaster Relief: Ongoing emergency response for elders affected by floods and disasters (recent responses include Flood Relief 2025, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Bihar, and North India flood appeals, plus a major COVID-19 relief response).
• Climate Resilient Ageing Report (2026): A nationwide research report on ensuring care, dignity, and agency for elders amid climate change.
• Campaigns: Recurring public awareness and fundraising campaigns including Sab Ki Diwali, Ghar Ka Ujala, Main Bhi Hoon, AdvantAge 60, and Walk In My Shoes.

HelpAge India offers rare focus and depth in a niche of the social sector that's often overlooked: ageing. People join because the work is tangible, from a single doorstep health visit to national policy advocacy, and because the organisation's three-decade track record means new hires get to work within established, well-tested systems rather than build from scratch. Its scale (spanning healthcare, livelihoods, disaster response, and advocacy) also means there's room to specialise or move across very different kinds of elder-focused work.

HelpAge India suits people who care specifically about ageing and elder welfare and want to work at a large, established NGO with a clear, singular mission and decades of operational experience behind it.