 bill no 41 of  2014 the senior citizens (provision of geriatric and dementia care) bill, 2014 by shri bhartruhari mahtab, mp a billto provide for care of senior citizens suffering from dementia and provision of geriatric care facilities and for matters connected therewith or incidental theretobe  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the senior citizens (provision of geriatric and dementiacare) act, 2014short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint5definitions2  in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government",—(i) in relation to a union territory, means the central government; (ii) in relation to a state, means the government of that state;(b) "children" includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter but does not include a minor;(c) "dementia patient" means a person suffering from alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, fronto-temporal dementia or any other related cognitive disorder;5(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the appropriate government under this act; and(e) "senior citizens" means any person being a citizen of india, who has attained the age of sixty years103 (1) the appropriate government shall set up a geriatric care unit in every district headquarters hospital to provide care in geriatric disorders to senior citizensgeriatric care for senior citizens(2) every hospital, whether run by the government or a private entity, with a capacity of two hundred beds for in-patient treatment, shall have a department of geriatrics15(3) the appropriate government shall constitute day-care centres for senior citizens in every district4 every state shall develop, in at least one medical college situated in the state, the facilities for imparting education in geriatric medicine and imparting training in geriatric care to nurses and other paramedical staffeducation in geriatric medicine and training in geriatric care20constitution of dementia care unit5 every appropriate government shall constitute in hospitals run by it, a sub-speciality dementia care unit, whether under the geriatric care unit constituted under section 3 or otherwise6 the appropriate government shall conduct a survey of patients suffering from dementia and a state-wise database of such patients shall be maintainedsurvey of dementia patients7 every dementia patient shall be paid a monthly attendance allowance at such rate as may be prescribed by the appropriate government:25attendance allowance to dementia patientsprovided that in the case of a patient suffering from the alzheimer's disease or such other severe variant of dementia as may be specified by the appropriate government, the attendance allowance payable shall not be less than twice the amount of old age pension granted or grantable by the appropriate government to senior citizens308 (1) the maintenance and care of dementia patients shall be the responsibility of their childrenduty of children of dementia patients to look after their parents(2) the abandonment or disregard of dementia patients by their children shall be an offence which shall be punishable with imprisonment upto six months or fine upto rupees fifty thousand or both35power to remove difficulties9 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the centralgovernment may, by order published in the official gazette, make such provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty40act to have overriding effect10 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistenttherewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this act11 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rulesfor carrying out the purposes of the actpower of central government to make rules5(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have efect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonsindia has a sizeable population of senior citizens and is growing by the day almost all senior citizens suffer from geriatric disorders—most common among them being the cognitive disorders severe forms of such disorders are the alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia the patients suffering from such disorders often do not get proper care from their children and are even abandoned by them the government too has not paid enough attention to the need to provide geriatric care and treatment in general, and to the people suffering from different forms of dementia in particular2 keeping in view the above hardships being faced by senior citizens the bill seeks to make the following provisions:—(i) setting up of geriatric care units and day-care centres in all districts for seniorcitizens;(ii) promotion of geriatric medicine education and training in geriatric care; (iii) survey of dementia patients, constitution of dementia care units in hospitalsand attendance allowance to dementia patients; and(iv) abandonment and disregard of dementia patients by their children to be anoffence3 the bill seeks to achieve the above objectivesnew delhi;bhartruhari  mahtabjune 26, 2014 financial  memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for setting up of geriatric care units and day-care centres for senior citizens in all districts clause 4 provides for developing facilities for education and training in geriatrics and geriatric care while clause 5 provides for constitution of dementia care units in certain hospitals clause 6 provides for survey of dementia patients and clause 7 provides for grant of attendance allowance to such patientsthe expenditure on account of implementation of above provisions in union territories shall be met out of the consolidated fund of india a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees one crore and a recurring expenditure of about rupees twenty lakh per annum may be involved in constituting and maintaining geriatric care units, day-care centres and dementia care units in each district the development of facilities for education and training under clause 4 may involve non-recurring expenditure of rupees fifty crore and a recurring expenditure of rupees five crore per annum the expenditure on attendance allowance cannot be estimated as it would depend upon the number of dementia patients identified by the survey to be conducted memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 11 of the bill empowers the central government to make, by notification in the official gazette, rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill the rules made by the central government are required to be laid before each house of parliamentthe matters in respect of which rules may be made or notification issued in accordance with the aforesaid provisions of the bill are matters of procedure and administrative details and it is not practicable to provide for them in the bill itself the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character———— a billto provide for care of senior citizens suffering from dementia and provision of geriatric care facilities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto————(shri bhartruhari mahtab, mp)