The Caring Futures Resource Hub

Translating care & climate thinking into real world decisions, before resilience fails. A knowledge hub connecting care, climate, and resilience to inform better policy and finance decisions.

The Demographic Shift & Policy Imperative - Unlike many ageing societies that grew rich before they grew old, India is ageing at lower income levels and with large informal labour markets. The challenge is stark - how to secure dignified, affordable, and inclusive eldercare while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion.

For years, we’ve spoken about care through the lens of gender disparity or data gaps. But this isn’t only about gender inequality. It’s also a structural failure in how we define value, measure growth, allocate public finance, and design our economic systems.

Across the world, countries are investing in care as infrastructure — to drive growth, create jobs, and stabilise their futures. India is missing the moment. In Part 3 of Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development series, the-ZURI explores global care strategy shifts and what they signal for India’s economic path.

India has more than 153 million elderly population today but no eldercare system. Public sector solutions are scattered and underfunded. Private sector solutions remain urban and niche. What will it take to shift from aspirations without architecture to an equitable functional eldercare system in India? Explore whats coming up in this special series designed to chart the move to a functional eldercare system

Part 2 of the Series - Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development looks at why India’s Care Financing Deficit is not just a policy oversight, it’s a structural risk. As public investment stagnates and private care costs soar, the burden falls unfairly on unpaid and underpaid labour. This article exposes the cracks in care financing and why investing in the care economy is essential for equity, productivity, and growth.

care is not a welfare add on or a gender issue alone, it is foundational economic infrastructure that drives growth, employment & human capital. It is the next frontier of productivity and inclusion.