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Active Aging Leads to Healthy Aging
Backdrop: The decade of 2021 to 2030 has been declared by the UN as the one of “healthy aging”. The idea is to promote global consciousness about importance of “healthy aging” for about one billion of elderly population across the globe. The more important aspect is that majority of the older people are living in…
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Life is Beautiful- Enjoy It
Backdrop: Love for life is a crucial step for a joyful living. Whatever may be the quality of life, one needs to “love it” to live happily. The law of average always works in life: sorrows follow happiness. It is always easy to love and enjoy the moments of happiness. How to love life when…
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Managing Loneliness is Crucial for Happy Life
Backdrop: Loneliness is one of the serious problems being faced by people of all ages. Loneliness is a perception, psychological feeling of being in isolation, distant from others, being neglected while even in companionship. It often happens when a “substantial gap” exists between what a person’s quantitative as well as qualitative expectations from a social…
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Mental Wellness is Key to Happy Aging
Backdrop: Happy aging is the mantra at old age. The word “happy aging” essentially means a living a life that is happy, cheerful, free of worries / problems and with dignity. There are primarily two (2) major dimensions to the happy aging for an elderly: keeping “physically well” and having an “agile mind”. Both are…
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Music is Best Companion for Elders
Backdrop: Old age is often associated with loneliness. This emanates from various obvious reasons: retirement from active professional life, distance from earlier friends / colleagues, and moving away of the sons / daughters to different places as they grow young. The elderly is thus often left alone with “span of contact” shrinking by the day.…
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Never Say You Are Retired
Backdrop: This article is inspired by a Facebook group by the name “Never Say Retired Forum” created by my friend Vijay Maroo, a former journalist. When I heard it for the first time, I was curious to understand the spirit and rationale. The more I delved into it, further I got fascinated. The word “retirement”…
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Five Things Elders Must Not Do
Backdrop: Much has been described in academic literature and health guidebooks as to what the elders should do daily to keep themselves physically and mentally agile. These are positive aspects, and the elders should do or practice. But at the same time, there are certain aspects that elders must “avoid” for having a happy and…