Doctor led monitoring, quarterly home visits and senior helpline 04442004222 position the programme as a coordinated alternative to fragmented elderly care
Chennai, February 26, 2026: A structured, assessment driven geriatric care model has been introduced in Chennai with the launch of Swayam at MGM Healthcare, designed to integrate medical, psychological, functional and home based monitoring under a single coordinated system. The programme is supported by a dedicated senior helpline, 04442004222, offering assistance to elderly patients and their families.
Swayam operates on a continuity of care framework that connects outpatient consultations, senior friendly in patient wards including intensive care units, and hospital to home services. The model extends beyond discharge through direct home visits, remote monitoring and scheduled follow ups for patients living independently or in assisted living facilities.
The initiative was inaugurated by Col. K. Prabhakar Hebbar Retd., Mrs. Joseph Marita, Branch Head, and Mrs. Kirshnaveni V., Dignity Foundation, in the presence of Dr. Senathi Nanda Kishore, Clinical Director and Senior Consultant and Clinical Lead, Anaesthesiology and Surgical ICU, MGM Healthcare, and Dr. P. Sivaraj, Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, who leads the Swayam programme.
The programme is built around a comprehensive geriatric assessment that evaluates medical conditions, functional capacity, psychological wellbeing, cognition, nutrition, sensory health, dental health and home environment. Clinical services include chronic disease management for diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular risk, medication review and rationalisation, preventive health risk stratification, memory evaluation, rehabilitation support, metabolic and renal disorder management, infection care, mobility analysis, and frailty and fall risk assessment.
Dr. Senathi Nanda Kishore said, “India is ageing rapidly, yet structured geriatric medicine remains underdeveloped. Ageing is often normalised as decline. Chronic pain, loneliness, reduced mobility, polypharmacy and sensory deterioration are accepted as natural. Swayam challenges this narrative. We are not merely a treatment clinic; we represent a proactive, preventive and restorative ecosystem for senior wellbeing. We are not managing old age; we are optimising healthy ageing.”
Dr. P. Sivaraj said, “Current geriatric care is often fragmented across specialties, reactive rather than preventive, with limited psychological and social assessment. Medication management is seldom well integrated, and follow up rarely extends into structured home based care. In contrast, we offer Chennai’s most structured multidisciplinary geriatric programme, built on a true continuity of care model spanning outpatient, inpatient and home care. The emphasis is on longitudinal monitoring rather than episodic intervention, reframing ageing from inevitable decline to a manageable, optimisable transition.”
Swayam follows an appointment based structure that limits consultations to five patients per day to enable detailed and unhurried evaluation. Each visit includes multidisciplinary screening within a single visit, including psychological assessment for loneliness and depression. Continuity beyond the hospital is maintained through quarterly Mobile Health Services, during which a doctor, nurse and physiotherapist conduct structured home visits for monitoring and ongoing care.
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