text: May inflation at five-month high on expensive food items
  Expensive food items and beverages like coffee, tea, poultry, fish and vegetables pushed the WPI inflation in May to over 6%
  Rising prices of food and beverages like coffee, tea, poultry, fish and vegetables pushed up inflation to a five-month high of 6.01% in May against 5.20% in the previous month. The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation was 5.20% in April and 4.58% a year ago in May.
  According to the data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Monday, food items whose prices rose the most during the month include coffee (23%), poultry chicken (7%), fish-inland (6%), tea, fruits, and vegetables (4% each).
  The other items in the primary articles segment that became dearer are condiments and spices, fish-marine, urad, and masur (3% each); rice and moong (2% each); and milk, barley, pork, mutton and arhar (1% each).
  However, the prices of maize came down by 5%, wheat and ragi by 2% each; egg, jowar and gram came down by 1% each.
  In the 'non-food articles' category, guar seed became expensive by 13%, soyabean (10%), copra (coconut) (8%), tobacco (7%), raw jute (5%), raw silk (3%), mesta (2%); and groundnut seed, raw cotton and cotton seed (1% each).
  The inflation figures for March were revised to 6% from 5.70% reported earlier. The previous high was 6.4% in December.
  India's elderly face issues ranging from a lack of quality palliative care, assisted living and inadequately equipped old-age homes besides less sensitive youth to elders' needs. There is a need for a holistic approach to creating a suitable environment for elders to live and create a public infrastructure to facilitate easier use by elders among other things says a report prepared by the India Backbone Implementation Network (IbIn) for the Planning Commission. According to the report, 'Aspirations for the elderly', India needs to promote accessibility through age-friendly systems and barrier-free environment. "Accessibility is a key enabler for social, cultural, and economic participation with the community at large. In the case of senior citizens, it helps to maintain essential links with friends, family and one's neighbourhood. For accessibility to be meaningful for older adults from both rural and urban areas, the elderly must be given priority in everyday activities at all publicly and privately owned utilities in sectors such as urban transportation and mass rapid transit systems, government offices, hospitals, banks, restaurants, cinema halls and recreational centres. Assisted add-on facilities, such as separate waiting lounges provided with customer assistance staff, ramps that ease boarding and disembarking from buses, trains and aircraft, elder-friendly restrooms and walkways exclusively designed for older adults should be provided," the report says.
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