A family commitment to dignified aging, born from loss.
Anand Chaturvedi is Co-Founder of Deerghayu Foundation, established in 2010 in memory of his brother Avinish, who died of lung cancer at age 27.
Featured in The New York Times for his dual-continent commitment to healthcare, Anand represented India at the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases as the sole delegate in cardio-metabolic disease education.
He has developed two frameworks now guiding innovation in eldercare:
Empowering distributed care teams with agency and dignity
Technology that anticipates needs and recedes into the background
Based in Switzerland, Anand provides strategic leadership for the Foundation while advancing research in care ecosystem intelligence.
Co-Founder
Featured in The New York Times. Represented India at the UN. Pioneer of Autonomous Caring and Ambient Caring. Based in Switzerland.
Co-Founder • Clinical Director • Global Program Director
Founding Medical Director. Led Project SHADOW—15,000 women screened. Johns Hopkins trained. American College of Physicians Award recipient.
Dr. Garima Chaturvedi is Co-Founder, Clinical Director, and Global Program Director of Deerghayu Foundation. She provides direct clinical leadership for all India operations while overseeing programs spanning two continents.
When considering how to honor Avinish’s memory, Dr. Garima posed the question that shaped the Foundation’s mission: “An annual award would make us feel better once a year—how could we go about our lives the rest of the time, as if that were enough?”
She became the founding Medical Director of the Udaipur clinic in 2010. Her clinical protocols produced a 90% patient improvement rate in a region where only 14% of people see a doctor every six months—results documented in The New York Times.
Today, Dr. Garima maintains active clinical and programmatic presence in India, where she:
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