Celebrating Our Elders: Scenes from Our Annual Get-Together

Once a year, our care teams, elders and their families fill a hall in Pune with music, laughter and far too much food. The annual get-together is our favourite day of the year — the day the work steps out of homes and becomes a community.

There are dance performances by seventy-year-olds that put the rest of us to shame, a memory wall of photos from the year, and the quiet moment everyone waits for: elders recognising the care managers they now consider their own.

To every family who has let us into their homes and their lives: thank you. We will keep showing up — for the chai, the doctor visits, the midnight calls, and the dances.

The best moments are never on the agenda: a ninety-year-old teaching a care manager her grandmother's pickle recipe, two widows discovering they grew up on the same street, a son watching his father laugh at a joke he has not heard in years.

We also use the day to listen. Elders tell us what they want more of — walks, temple visits, music, someone to read the newspaper aloud — and those notes quietly shape the next year's care plans.

If your parents are already part of the Get Mai Care family, they are part of this day. If they are not yet, come and meet the team; the door, like our helpline, stays open.

To learn how Get Mai Care can support your parents, talk to a care advisor or explore our elder care services.