From Dementia Care Leader to Transition Care Pioneer — The Nema Elder Care Story | Nema Transition Care Home Gurgaon 2026

There are moments in the life of a company that define not just where it is going — but how far it has already come. For Nema Elder Care, this is one of those moments.

After years of quiet, consistent, deeply purposeful work building Delhi NCR's most trusted specialist dementia and memory care home, Nema Elder Care is now taking its next defining step: entering the transition care and post-operative rehabilitation space in Gurgaon with the launch of Nema Transition Care Home — opening imminently in Sector 38, just 5 minutes from Medanta — The Medicity.

This is not a pivot. It is a natural, earned evolution — the logical next chapter for a brand that has spent years proving what exceptional specialist care looks like in India. To understand why this expansion matters so profoundly, you first need to understand the journey that made it possible.

Where It All Began: The Founding of Nema Elder Care

Nema Elder Care was founded in 2016 by Sanjeev Jain — an IIT and IIM-qualified architect entrepreneur who walked away from a successful international corporate career to build something India desperately needed: a true specialist dementia care home. The name NEMA means 'Blessings of God, the Almighty' in Tibetan, Hebrew, and Arabic traditions. It is also an anagram of AMEN — an affirmation of belief in compassionate care. This was not a business conceived in a boardroom. It was a calling, answered with discipline and heart.

Nema Elder Care officially launched its first care home on Gandhi Jayanti — October 2, 2019 — becoming only the second care home of its kind in all of North India. Purpose-built for dementia and memory care. Staffed by dementia-trained specialists. Designed by dementia care architects. Built to a standard that no one in the region had delivered before.

Six Years of Leading India's Dementia Care Space

Just six months after launch, COVID-19 struck. While others in the elder care industry reeled, Nema dug in — kept its residents safe, established its in-home care division during the pandemic years, and emerged stronger and more trusted than ever. By 2022, the company had stabilised. By 2023, it signed its first senior living operations contract. By 2024, Nema opened its second care home — set to be the most luxurious specialist elder care facility in India — while piloting age-care technology and securing additional senior living partnerships.

Co-Founder Dr. Chetna Jain — a medical professional with over 30 years of experience in the UK and India, with deep expertise in dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's care — has ensured that every care plan, every caregiver, every clinical decision at Nema meets a standard Indian elder care had simply not seen before. Her background at Apollo Cradle and Columbia Asia Hospital, combined with Sanjeev Jain's design and systems thinking, created something rare: a care home built with both clinical precision and human warmth at its absolute centre.

What India's Leading Media Has Said About Nema Elder Care

The quality of Nema Elder Care's work has not gone unnoticed. Across the years, India's leading national media, healthcare publications, and digital news platforms have recognised, featured, and celebrated Nema's leadership in the dementia care space. Here — with verified live links — is where India's media has placed Nema Elder Care:

National News & Press Coverage

The Tribune — Best Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon: Nema Elder Care

The Wire — Best Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon: Nema Elder Care

First India — Nema Eldercare Leads as the Most Trusted Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon

Hindustan Metro — Best Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon: Nema Elder Care

Loktej English — Best Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon: Nema Elder Care

Sangri Today — Best Dementia Care Home in Gurgaon: Nema Elder Care

Healthcare & Industry Publications

The Health Site — Understanding the Importance of Dementia Care — Expert Insights from Nema Elder Care

Only My Health — Best Practices for Dementia Patients — Nema Elder Care Featured

CXO Today — Sanjeev Jain on Nema Elder Care's Tech-Driven Approach to Improving Senior Lives

Sugermint — Nema Elder Care Founder Sanjeev Kumar Jain — Entrepreneur Feature

Mainstream & Lifestyle Media

WION News — The Loneliness Epidemic: Tackling Isolation Among Seniors — Nema Elder Care Expert Quoted

The Week — Elder Care Finds a New Address — Nema Elder Care Featured

Economic Times — Nema Elder Care — Elder Care Industry Feature

From The Tribune and The Wire to The Week and the Economic Times — this breadth of national media coverage reflects something simple and important: Nema Elder Care's reputation has not been manufactured. It has been earned, one resident, one family, and one act of genuine care at a time.

What Made Nema the Dementia Care Leader — The Defining Choices

1. A Purpose-Built Dementia Home — Not a General Care Home

From day one, Nema made one defining choice: to be a specialist dementia care home — not a general old age home that also accepts dementia residents. This distinction matters enormously. A general care home manages dementia as a condition to contain. A specialist memory care home like Nema designs everything — the physical space, the staffing, the daily programme, the light, the sound — around the specific, evolving needs of people living with dementia. Indian families have come to recognise this difference, and it is why they choose Nema.

2. Clinical Excellence Fused with Genuine Human Warmth

Dr. Chetna Jain's 30+ years of clinical expertise combined with Sanjeev Jain's design thinking created a care home simultaneously the most clinically rigorous and the most human-centred in Delhi NCR. Families consistently report the same observation: 'My parent is actually better now than they were at home.' Not cured. Better — calmer, safer, more connected, and more dignified.

3. An Environment Designed by Dementia Specialists

Secure perimeters that prevent unsafe wandering without creating an institutional atmosphere. Looping corridors for free movement without dead ends. Sensory rooms for stimulation and calm. Landscaped gardens accessible at every mobility level. Maximised natural light throughout. It feels like a home — a very fine one. This environment was designed by dementia care specialists, not converted from a general property.

4. Evidence-Based Therapeutic Programmes Every Day

Music therapy, reminiscence therapy, sensory stimulation, art and craft, cognitive stimulation, physical movement — these are not activities at Nema. They are clinical interventions that access emotional memory in ways that medication cannot. Every programme is structured, evidence-based, and personalised to each resident's history, preferences, and cognitive profile.

5. The NRI Family Communication Model

Nema built its transparency model explicitly for NRI families — the sons and daughters in the US, UK, UAE, Canada, and Australia who cannot be present but refuse to abandon their responsibility. Regular written updates, video call access, named care coordinators, proactive communication across every time zone. This is why families from five continents choose Nema Elder Care for their most vulnerable loved ones in India.

Why Transition Care Was Always the Natural Next Step

Over six years of leading dementia care in Delhi NCR, the same question came up again and again from families: 'Our parent has just had surgery at Medanta. Where do they go now?' The honest answer — until now — was that there was no trusted, specialist, hospital-adjacent transition care option in Sector 38. Families were forced to bring a medically complex post-surgical patient home prematurely, or accept a long drive to a distant facility.

Nema Transition Care Home closes that gap. And it does so from a position of earned credibility, clinical expertise, and deep understanding of elderly patients and the families who love them. This is not Nema entering an unfamiliar space. It is Nema bringing everything it has learned about complex elder care into a new domain that desperately needs it.

Nema Transition Care Home — Sector 38, Gurgaon | 5 Minutes from Medanta

Nema Transition Care Home is opening at the former Housr 38 property in Sector 38, Gurgaon — just 5 minutes from Medanta — The Medicity. It is a purpose-built, medically supervised residential facility for patients recovering from major surgery or serious illness — offering 24x7 nursing care, daily physiotherapy, occupational therapy, expert wound management, therapeutic nutrition, and proactive family communication.

• 5 minutes from Medanta — The Medicity: The closest dedicated transition care facility to one of India's premier surgical hospitals.

• Built on Nema's proven care culture: The same clinical excellence and human warmth that made Nema the most trusted dementia care name in Delhi NCR.

• Dementia-sensitive post-op care: Uniquely equipped for elderly post-surgical patients who also live with dementia or cognitive impairment.

• True continuum of care: From post-operative recovery to assisted living or specialist dementia care — one trusted brand, every stage of the journey.

• NRI family model: Proactive, transparent, time-zone-flexible communication that NRI families have relied on for years.

Register your interest at www.nematransitioncare.com — Nema Transition Care Home is opening imminently and early registrations are now being accepted.

The Next Chapter of an Extraordinary Story

Six years ago, Nema Elder Care launched in a market that largely did not know what specialist dementia care looked like. Today, it is the benchmark — featured in national media, trusted by thousands of families, recognised by neurologists and geriatricians as the first recommendation for complex dementia cases in Delhi NCR.

That journey was built on one thing: the refusal to do anything less than what India's elderly truly deserve. Not managed. Not contained. Cared for — with clinical excellence, genuine warmth, and complete dignity.

Nema Transition Care Home carries that same refusal into a new domain. Because post-surgical recovery is not just about healing a wound. It is about restoring a life. And Nema Elder Care has always understood what restoring a life actually takes.

Register interest: www.nematransitioncare.com | Nema Elder Care: www.nemacare.com