The market for aging has finally come of age,” says Dr Sheilu Sreenivasan, founder president, Dignity foundation, an NGO that works for senior citizens. Sreenivasan, a social entrepreneur, was busy finalising plans and blueprints for the second and third phase of her retirement township project — Dignity Lifestyle, when we met her at the first phase of the township at Neral on a rainy Thursday afternoon.

Alan Chatterjee, who stays at an apartment at Dignity Lifestyle in Neral enjoys gardening at the retirement township. Pics/ Sameer Markande