Natural calamities reveal that in the struggle for survival, the elderly are usually the last in the line and lost in the crowd, and therefore suffer the most. In a country like India, with its vastly different climatic and geographical zones, reaching survivors of natural calamities is a huge challenge. Given the size of its population and the dense habitation, disasters affect people by the hundreds of thousands, causing unacceptable fatalities and destroying families and homes. Floods, earthquakes, cloudbursts and even tsunamis are now a regular feature in diverse parts of India..