consideration before the upcoming Retirement Living World India 2014 conference Health care markets in China and India have expanded rapidly during the last years. According to Forbes, there are several reasons to believe that India could represent a better market for senior care services and development than China. India has the second largest geriatric population in the world.According to a United Nations Population Fund report, the number of people age 60 and over in India will increase from 100 million in 2011 to 300 million by 2050; this means one in five Indians will be above the age of 60. Of the 300 million over-60s, 200 million are likely to be suffering from chronic ailments. The Indian economy has positioned itself as a service-based economy, in contrast to China’s, which has done a superb job in more tangible manufactured sectors. Stakeholders should put more attention on the Indian market, considering the fact that life expectancy is significantly increasing in the country. Home healthcare is also becoming a mandatory.Patients who are suffering from chronic illness like heart failure, respiratory failure and Alzheimer’s do not really need hospitalization. With advanced medical gadgets, most of the patient monitoring, which was earlier possible only in hospitals, can now be offered with remarkable ease at home. International operators and investors should think about where to deploy capital given the number of competing regions that all have similar demographic needs. Many senior care operators can take a look at a market such as China and India quickly understand that international expansion as essential to future growth in developing countries. The next step could be to take the senior care and home healthcare work done in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia into India. The participation at the upcoming Retirement Living World India 2014 conference in December can be a way to better understand which strategy has to be taken in order to invest in the Indian healthcare sector. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (Source: Healthintelasia.com)