Social Awareness
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What Makes The Elders Happy
Backdrop: As established by several research worldwide that one of the most serious problems faced by senior citizens is that they often feel ignored, excluded and thereby, depressed, and unhappy. The antidote to the problem is to find ways in which the elderly can feel happy and thereby, find purpose in life. What makes a…
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Legal Framework for Helping Elderly
Backdrop: One of the main areas of concern for senior citizens has been their financial safety and security when they become old and have no adequate means of their own. There are many cases where children have neglected and abandoned their parents. Unfortunately, various governments since independence have not paid adequate attention to this crucial…
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Age Friendly Communities are Need of the Hour
Backdrop: With the explosion in the number of elderly populations in the world, many issues related to their happy aging keep cropping up. One among them is their place of stay. In the past, there was not much discussion about it as family used to be an extended one and all members including elders were…
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Five Ways Elders Can Contribute to Society
Backdrop: In my earlier piece, I wrote about expectations of senior citizens from the government and others. While the same remains true, elders also need to reciprocate by harnessing their energies and contributing to society. Many seniors on retirement from active first life profession feel that they have done enough, and it is time to…
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What Minimum the Elders Expect from Government
Backdrop: With a number totaling around 135 million plus, senior citizens (with age of 60 years and more) constitute around 10 per cent of total population which is significant. Their contribution to the country’s growth has also been enormous. But the fact remains that as elderly they feel neglected from all quarters including government. Not…
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Elders Need to be Aware of Frauds
Backdrop: One of the biggest problems with elderly is that they fall prey to fraudsters quite easily being one of the most gullible targets. Main reason of their easy falling to fraud traps is that many of them stay alone devoid of advice and thus are easily wooed by sympathetic or loving conversations even by…
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Elders Must be Aware of Dementia and Alzheimer
Backdrop: Month of September is known as that of Alzheimer as people around globe join in movement to create an awareness of the dreaded disease of Dementia / Alzheimer. 21st September is also marked as “World Alzheimer Day”. Dementia / Alzheimer is predominantly an irreversible & dreaded disease: a fear with which the senior citizens…
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Need of the Hour is to Bring All Generations Together
Backdrop: India is predominantly a young nation with median age of around 29. This very nature of the country with a large and burgeoning workforce (18 to 45 years) makes it a truly aspiring one often termed as “New India”. However, one must not forget the complexity in Indian society. A significant number of population…