CALL: - +91 72900 21707 or +91 72900 21706
ADDRESS: Aurum Senior & Assisted Living Block H1/10, South City – 2, Gurugram Haryana – 122008, India
Dr. Sameer Gupta
MD FACC, FSCAI, FACP | Co-Founder, Aurum Living | Director, Metro Group of Hospitals
Interventional Cardiologist | Diplomate in 5 American Boards | Healthcare Director | Transforming Healthcare & Senior Care
The heart does not stop wanting to live fully. It only needs the right environment to keep doing so.
Dr. Sameer Gupta trained and practiced in the United States for ten years, becoming an integral part of one of the most selective groups in medicine: cardiologists certified by five American Boards simultaneously.
He was recognized by the US government in 2013 under the Extraordinary Ability and Achievement category, a designation that fewer than a few hundred physicians receive each year. He trained in complex cardiac procedures, worked on structural heart disease, and built a clinical practice that most doctors never reach.
Then he came back to India.
Not out of obligation, but because he kept seeing the same gap. A patient survives a cardiac event. The procedure goes well. But then they go home, alone or with a family that is doing its best but is not equipped for what comes next. The hospital part works. The life after it, often does not.
That question sat with him for years. As he helped build Metro Group of Hospitals into a multi-city network, he watched elders recovering from procedures in environments that simply were not built for them.
No structured support, no trained staff, no thought given to what daily life should look like at that stage. He started thinking about what it would take to actually solve that, not patch it.
Aurum Living is that attempt. The medical infrastructure at Aurum, the 24-hour care access, the post-operative recovery support, the clinical protocols, all of it carries the thinking of someone who has worked at the sharp end of aging medicine for two decades. He knows what the body needs after a difficult procedure. He built a place around that knowledge.
Dr. Sonia Lal Gupta
MD, FACP, MBA | Co-Founder, Aurum Living | Joint Managing Director, Metro Group of Hospitals
Neurologist ( Headache & Stroke specialist), JMD, Metro Group of Hospitals, Joint MD, Aurum Senior and Assisted Living; MD, Metro College of Health Sciences & Research
The brain is not diminished by age. It is deepened if we give it the space to be.
Dr. Sonia Lal Gupta trained as a neurologist in the United States, held a faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago, and earned board certifications in neurology, vascular neurology, neurosonology, and headache medicine. She also completed an MBA in healthcare management from George Washington University, which is an unusual combination for a clinician, but one that has defined how she thinks about elder care.
Years of working with patients who had dementia, stroke, and memory disorders gave her a clear and fairly unsentimental view of how aging goes wrong in India. Families wait too long, partly out of love, partly out of stigma, partly because there is nowhere obvious to turn. By the time a family accepts that their parent needs full-time professional support, the decline is often further along than it needed to be.
She has spoken about this publicly for years, written about it, tried to move the conversation. She was recognized as Neurologist of the Year in 2014 and again at the national level in 2025. The Times of India included her in their 40 Under 40 list. These things matter to her, but not as much as the clinical work does.
What she brought to Aurum is an understanding of how the aging brain actually responds to its environment. The activity design, the memory care approach, the way staff are trained to recognize early signs of cognitive change, none of that is guesswork. It comes from fifteen years of sitting across from patients and their families and watching what helps and what does not.
The brain is not diminished by age. It is deepened, if we give it the space to be.
We did not build Aurum because eldercare needed another facility. We built it because India’s elders deserved something entirely different.
Dr. Sameer and Dr. Sonia built Aurum because they had both seen, from different clinical angles, what Indian elder care was missing. One spent years understanding the heart. The other, the brain. Both arrived at the same conclusion: the facilities that existed were not good enough, and they had the background to try something different.
Aurum is not a hospital and it is not a nursing home. It is a place built by two doctors who know exactly what aging bodies and aging minds need, and decided to build around that rather than around what was convenient.
We did not build Aurum because eldercare needed another facility. We built it because India’s elders deserved something entirely different.