✅ What Are Geriatric Care Solutions?
These are personalized services and support systems designed for elderly individuals, including:
- Medical & nursing care
- Rehabilitation and physiotherapy
- Dementia & memory support
- Palliative & post-operative care
- Social interaction and mental stimulation
Services can be delivered at specialist centers or directly in the comfort of one’s home.
🏥 Leading Geriatric Care Providers in Tamil Nadu
Thatha Patti Elders Foundation – Coimbatore
Offers a full geriatric service range from home health care to dementia care, bedridden assistance, post-surgery recovery, and physiotherapy—supported by multidisciplinary staff including physicians and therapists agingwithgrace.in+5thathapatti.com+5kitesseniorcare.com+5karkinos.in+1agingwithgrace.in+1kitesseniorcare.com.
Aging with GRACE – Chennai
Home-care specialist providing trained caregiver and registered nurse services in both 12‑hour and 24‑hour shifts for elders needing daily assistance agingwithgrace.in.
KITES Senior Care – Chennai & Coimbatore
Experts in post-hospitalization rehab, palliative, dementia care, and home geriatric care, serving over 6,000 seniors with structured care protocols kitesseniorcare.com.
Elite Geriatric Care – Chennai
Combines hospital-level and home-care services, utilizing holistic and traditional therapies for mobility, memory, respite, and meal assistance thathapatti.com+2elitegeriatriccare.com+2kitesseniorcare.com+2.
Inhouse Medicare – Coimbatore
Delivers at-home doctor visits, diagnostics, nutrition, medication admin, physiotherapy, and caregiver support for day-to-day senior well-being inhousemedicare.com+1shifahomecare.com+1.
Shifa HomeCare
Provides a similar spectrum of doctor visits, diagnostics, nursing care, physiotherapy, medication supervision at home .
Geri Care – Chennai
Pioneering geriatric home-care with services from assessment to multi-disciplinary support, fully integrated into their geriatric clinics and hospitals. They also run the only private DNB-accredited Geriatric Medicine residency program in TN devdiscourse.com.
📌 Government‑Linked & Integrative Care
- Geri Care Hospital now offers DNB Geriatric Medicine residency, training more specialists to care for seniors shifahomecare.com+3devdiscourse.com+3gericare.in+3.
- Government hospitals, like Kalaignar Centenary Hospital in Chennai, include a 200‑bed National Centre for Ageing with ICU beds to support elder care en.wikipedia.org.
- The Siddha Central Research Institute (SCRI) in Arumbakkam has a special geriatrics OPD and rejuvenation treatments en.wikipedia.org.
🛠️ Types of Services & Support Available
- Home Nursing & Attendant Care: Wound care, catheter support, vital monitoring
- Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy: Post-surgery, fall recovery, mobility
- Memory & Dementia Support: Structured activities, mental engagement
- Palliative & Hospice: Pain management and comfort care
- Doctor Visits & Diagnostics at Home
- Holistic Therapies: Ayurvedic, naturopathic, osteopathy, Siddha
💰 Approximate Cost Estimates (May Vary by Location)
- 12‑hour caregiver (non-medical): ₹12,000 – 18,000/month
- 24‑hour live-in caregiver: ₹20,000 – 35,000/month
- Visiting nurse (medical care): ₹500 – 1,000/day
- Physiotherapy session: ₹600 – 900/session
- Home doctor visit: ₹800 – 1,500 per visit
📝 Choosing the Right Solution
- Identify your need: medical vs. non-medical, temporary vs. long-term
- Location-based provider: Chennai and Coimbatore have the widest offerings; other cities have select specialists
- Check credentials: trained staff, background checks, medical oversight
- Evaluate care plan: home assessment, multidisciplinary approach
- Define scheduling & cost: shift type, hours, payment structure