Depression rates in old age homes are high, with a study in Devghat showing that 82.6% of residents experienced depression due to lack of familial care, social isolation, and limited mental health support.
Women in Nepal spend six times more time on unpaid care work compared to men, which highlights a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work in the context of gender. This burden evolves from the ingrained cultural norms, associating men with providing roles and women with nurturing roles, leading to the gender stereotypes existent in the society, often defined in the form of social organization of care.