CASE STUDY FAMILY BACKGROUND: MRS Subha Boral married since 32 years and has 2 sons and by profession

is a house maid and her husband owns a pan shop and her two siblings one of them is a rickshaw van driver other works in a factory and her daughter in law also works as house maid. ECONOMIC STATUS: MRS Subha used to work in KASTURI NURSING HOME a few years back, then she fell ill and discontinued working there during the process of recovery she again started to work as a house maid in the house of a resident of that locality.

Mrs. Subha Boral a resident of Joka Kolkata is a patient of HelpAge MMU Kolkata, her family consists of her husband, two sons, one daughter in law and two grand childrens. She and her daughter in law works as a housemaid, her husband runs a pan shop and one of her son works in a factory and the other pulls a rickshaw van. She earlier used to work at Kasturi Nursing Home and a few years later she fell ill and due to her illness she had to quit her job at the nursing home. With her quitting the job she fell into financial crisis and was dependent on the other family members. Three years ago her husband also lost a limb in an accident. Due to financial crisis she could not afford the cost of treatment and thus seeked the MMU Service of HelpAge. Having herself treated at the MMU of HelpAge she recovered from her illness and now works as a housemaid and now she is able to bear her own expences.