Ageing Gracefully

Ageing and accompanying health factors often make later part of life very difficult period of life. Self care and health promotion are important in maintaining independence in old age. Self care is an ability to meet one’s needs. It is suggested that maintaining of low risk of disease and disease-related disability, high mental and physical [...]

The rapid ageing of the world population* has brought about visible changes in the familial, social and economic spheres of human life. The changes have affected areas like the intergenerational equilibrium of population, long term care, gender ageing, and socio-economic condition of elderly. As people live longer, specially the old-old and oldest old, have longer [...]

“Mr. Srivastava,72 years of age, a retired bank manager, whose wife died 15 years back, lives alone in a big house. His two sons and a daughter live in different cities. They come to meet him at in turn, regularly. Mr. Srivastave fell ill and was diagnosed cancer by doctors. Doctors advised him to go [...]

“Don’t depend too much on any one person. If you have a lot of helpers, you can be sure that someone will always be available when you need it. You will feel a lot more independent. We have different folks who do different things for us- like give us a ride, go to post office, [...]

(Miss Sadie Delany, aged 106, and her sister, Dr. Bessie Delany, deceased at 104, had definite rules for living a long and healthy life. Both exercised every single day, whether they felt like it or not. Both always downed chopped garlic and cod liver oil at breakfast, and ate at least seven vegetables at lunchtime. The sisters also [...]