With the transition from extended families to nuclear families, elderly women have lost their support from their children. Money, contraception, and education has changed the institution of the family. Elderly women are showing up are orphanages that were traditionally for children. Now, the orphanages are becoming packed with elderly women without family members to help them. The government has not done anything to correct the social problems that are been created from the transition of the extended family to the nuclear family. Private donations have been keeping the orphanages operating. The elderly women constantly talk about the change in values of the culture that has lead to them having to live in the orphanages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12716617
Ronnie Miller