This, as it turns out, is not only good for your aging parents to keep them close to the family it imparts about four to six years of extra life expectancy research shows it's also good for the children of those families, who have lower rates of mortality and lower rates of disease.

When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly supplies, Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. His research got very very personal and led him to a powerful business model.