Social and recreational support keeps your parents active, occupied and connected to people. Pranyaas arranges day outings, picnics, community events, laughter clubs and festival celebrations, and the same Care Manager visits regularly enough to become a familiar face rather than a service. It exists to reduce loneliness and give their week something to look forward to. Available in Mumbai, Pune and Navi Mumbai.
Tell us where your parents live and we will call you back at a time that suits your time zone.
Families arrange the medical side first, and rightly so. Doctors, medicines and nurses are the things that feel urgent. What gets left out is everything that makes the day worth getting up for.
After retirement, and especially after children move away, a parent’s world can shrink to a few rooms and a television. The phone calls get shorter. They stop mentioning things, because there is nothing new to mention. Most families notice this only when a parent has already withdrawn, and by then it is harder to reverse.
Emotional wellbeing is not a soft extra alongside medical care and daily support. It sits beside them. Social and recreational support exists to keep your parents in the world, with people, doing things they actually enjoy.
Five parts, built around what your parents actually enjoy rather than a fixed activity calendar.
The simplest and the most missed. Somewhere to go, and someone to go with.
Company from people their own age, which is something family visits cannot replace.
The days that hurt most to miss, covered properly when you cannot be in the country.
Engagement between outings, on ordinary afternoons, which is where most of the week is.
The quiet part of this service, and the reason it works at all.
These two services overlap and families often ask which one they need. The short answer is that companion care looks after the day at home, and social and recreational support looks after the life outside it.
| SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL SUPPORT | COMPANION CARE | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Engagement, company and activity | Daily routine, personal care and the household |
| Where it happens | Mostly outside the house, at events and outings | Mostly at home |
| A typical day | An outing, a group session or a celebration | Grooming, medicines, meals and errands |
| What it prevents | Loneliness and withdrawal | A routine quietly falling apart |
| Best for | Parents who are managing fine but are alone too much | Parents who need help getting through the day |
Most families end up wanting both, which is why they sit together in the Premium plan. If you are not sure which your parents need, say so on the first call and we will tell you honestly after meeting them.
This service is mostly hours spent with your parents, so the person matters more here than anywhere else.
A direct Pranyaas employee, never outsourced to an agency. Background verified, medically assessed and character checked, and matched so they speak your parents’ language and can actually hold a conversation with them.
Meet the teamA Care Manager accompanies them, with a trained attendant where mobility support is needed. Nobody is sent out with a driver and left to manage alone.
Medicines are carried, mobility aids are planned for, and the 24/7 emergency desk is on call throughout, so an outing never depends on your parents being completely independent.
Emergency carePranyaas was founded on the idea of touching lives rather than running visits. It is led by co founders Smita Jadhav, who has over 12 years in the healthcare sector, and Shweta Jadhav.
Read our storySetup can be done entirely remotely. A Care Manager is assigned with the first home visit within 48 hours of subscribing.
The first visits are spent with your parents, not with a form. What they used to do, what they stopped doing, who they miss, what they would say yes to and what they would refuse.
Outings, group sessions and visits are planned at a pace that suits them, with festivals and birthdays marked in advance so nothing is arranged in a rush.
You get updates and photos from outings and celebrations, and an honest account if your parents are withdrawing or refusing to join in, so it can be adjusted.
Anyone can put an activity calendar on a page. Keeping an older person genuinely engaged takes the same person turning up often enough to be trusted.
One Care Manager builds a real relationship with your parents. A rotating roster of strangers produces polite company, not company your parents look forward to.
The plan is built from what your parents say they enjoy, which is often not what the family assumes. Interest is the only thing that makes any of this work.
Someone goes with them and stays with them. We do not book a cab and call it an outing.
Doses, mobility aids and rest are planned into the day, so being less steady on their feet is not a reason to stay home.
If your parents stop joining in, you hear it from us early, when something can still be done about it.
When you cannot fly down, the day is still marked at home, with you on the call and your gifts in the room.
Social and recreational support is included in the Premium plan at Rs 14,999 a month, which also carries eight home visits, because this service is built on time spent with your parents rather than tasks completed. Every plan is billed monthly with no lock in.
The plan fee covers your Care Manager and the time spent with your parents. Event tickets, transport, meals out and celebration costs are billed at actual cost with receipts shared with you.
Compare all plansLiving abroad, I always worried about my parents in Pune. Pranyaas takes care of their daily needs, doctor visits, and even small joys like outings and birthdays.
Every morning and evening the Pranyaas Care Manager calls me, asking what they can do for me and whether I have any work that needs to be done.
Families in Mumbai, Pune and Navi Mumbai, with children in the US, the UK, Canada, Singapore and across India.
Read more family storiesAsk us anything before you subscribe. The consultation is free and takes about ten minutes.
Call us 24/7It is organised company and activity for older adults living at home. With Pranyaas that means day outings and picnics, laughter clubs, community events and social gatherings, festivals and birthdays celebrated at home, and regular visits from the same Care Manager who talks to your parents properly rather than checking tasks off a list. It is intended to reduce loneliness and keep them engaged with people.
No. Companion care is the service that looks after the day at home, including personal care, medicines, meals and the household. This service is about activity and people: getting out of the house, joining groups, marking occasions and keeping the mind occupied. Many families take both, which is why they sit together in the Premium plan.
Often, but slowly. We do not push an unwilling parent into a group on day one. The Care Manager starts with visits at home and conversation, finds something your parent actually wants to do rather than something that is good for them, and builds from there. If your parent simply never wants to leave the house, we will tell you that honestly rather than keep billing for outings that do not happen.
A Care Manager accompanies them, with a trained attendant as well where mobility support is needed. Their medicines are carried, rest is planned into the day, and the 24/7 emergency desk is on call throughout. Your parents are never sent out alone with a driver.
Yes, and this is one of the most used parts of the service. The celebration is arranged at home, sweets, flowers or gifts are delivered on your behalf, a video call is set up so you are part of the day, and you get photos afterwards. Families who cannot travel for Diwali or a birthday use this most.
The Premium plan carries eight home visits a month, and outings, group sessions and celebrations are planned within that at a pace that suits your parents. Some families want something every week, others want two good outings a month and regular company in between. The plan is built around what your parents will actually enjoy, not a fixed calendar.
The plan fee covers your Care Manager and the time spent with your parents. Event tickets, transport, meals out and celebration expenses are billed at actual cost, with receipts shared with you so you always see what was spent.
Our teams work on the ground in Mumbai, Pune and Navi Mumbai, which is where outings, events and visits happen. Setup can be done entirely remotely in about ten minutes, which is how most families living abroad start.
Company, personal care, meals and household help in their own home.
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View this serviceAvailable where our teams work on the ground: Mumbai, Pune and Navi Mumbai. Living abroad? See elder care for NRI families.
Tell us what your parents used to enjoy and we will build a month around it. No lock in, and a Care Manager is assigned with the first home visit within 48 hours.
Certified caregivers and dedicated Care Managers who look after your parents at home in India, while you are away.