Dear Friends Today is International Senior Citizens Day. we can celebrate this day for a month. Now 8.2% of the indian population are above 60 yrs of age, which amounts to 9 crore of peoples. Old age can be of 2 types, chronological age which is according to your date of birth and year of birth and other due to biological ageing which means even if you are young because of faulty lifestyle different body organs behave like old age problems. So people around 40 - 60 years of age some times more old than people of 70 years. Yesterday we observe how to prevent smoking through international smoking prevention day. So people who smoke more than 10 cigarette per day, their blood vessel are more diseased than healthy people who are 70 years old. With this trend India will be super capital of both Chronological and Biological elderly people who will be needing lot of attention and financial help to overcome their diseases, which naturally comes with ageing like cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic lung disease, chronic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic bone disease and chronic eye disease. This needs serious consideration for if we can have a healthy life both physical, mental and financial then majority problems can be solved. Our elderly persons in low social economic group, both in urban and rural areas are quite neglected, because they do not get adequate food, and help for disease treatment, nor any recreational ground for social well being, like we provide for our children now. So at every Panchayat and Municipality ward level, there should be provision for one mid day meal for this impoverished people like mid day meal for children so that parental negligence by children will be minimized
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:07:11 +0000
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