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Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has launched a health insurance rider for senior citizen care ‘Respect Senior Care Rider’. Through this rider, senior citizen can get services like emergency ambulance service within 10 minutes, physiotherapy and nursing care at home and so on. Rider offers additional benefits which comes with the primary health policy.
The rider will be available at a premium that ranges between Rs.700 and Rs.7500 excluding GST.
Anyone who is aged 50 years and above and has the company’s base health insurance policy can opt for this rider. The rider offers three plans – Plan 1 offers emergency ambulance service, concierge service such as home assistance/ daily care, cyber, travel legal assistance and so on, plan 2 offers services like physiotherapy service at home, nursing care at home and tele-consultation services for psychological conditions and finally, plan 3 provides smart watch with fall detection technology, which tracks and records key vitals like SP02, body temperature, medicine reminder, heart rate, SOS, amongst others.
In a press release, Tapan Singhel, MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance said, "Youngsters, who very often work outside their hometowns are not just spread all over the country but the whole world. Their aging parents, who are spread all over the country, are their biggest worry, and they are often apprehensive about their health and well-being. The rider is our humble endeavour to address this worry and to be there for our customers in their times of emergency. This rider is aimed at simplifying lives of our customers through a bouquet of services specifically curated to meet their health insurance needs and much more."