4.2 Socio-Economic and Legal Status of Elderly People in Nepalese Society

The traditional-position: the venerated-elder (the joint-family's-head (the care-within-the-family (the "social security" the family-provided (the temple-of-the-home)))); The modern-pressure: the family-structure's-change (the migration (the youth-abroad (the urbanisation (the nuclear-turn — the care's-traditional-safety-net-thinning)))); The socio-economic-face: the income's-insecurity (the informal-lifetime (the no-pension-majority (the work-until-unable (the agriculture's-ageing- load)))) + the health's-burden (the chronic-care's-cost (the access's-geography (the geriatric- services' scarcity))) + the loneliness-and-the-abuse (the hidden-face (the elder-abuse's-emerging- recognition (the honesty-required)))); The legal-position: the Constitution's-Art-41 (the special- protection-and-social-security (the "senior citizens" the constitutional-term)) + the statute's- umbrella (the 2063-Act) + the maintenance-claim (the Civil-Code-2074's-children's-duty (the parents-maintained (the legal-backstop-when-the-family-fails))) + the Criminal-Code-2074's- abandonment-offence (the penal-floor) — the law-the-net (the net-the-question (the family-the- first-line-still (the state-the-floor-below))).