It is no secret that India is home to an ageing population. This World Senior Citizens Day, it is worth taking a breath to appraise the health of our seniors and to consider how the pandemic has affected them. As of 2019, older persons – those aged sixty or over – number at 139 million …
We still need to be concerned about elder mental health, Dr Reema Nadig argues in an article for ETHealthworld.com – especially in the context of the pandemic. Dr Nadig, chief operating officer and group medical director of KITES Senior Care, highlights that mental health issues affect twenty percent of India’s seniors according to the Longitudinal …
Veneration of our seniors is often considered the norm in India, but elder abuse certainly occurs. According to some estimates, the problem is growing. Down to Earth reported earlier this year of the worrisome trend. The report by the publication cited the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, which found that five percent of India’s seniors …
The COVID-19 pandemic has revitalised the conversation surrounding the need to care for the health of older people – an issue that already is of significant import considering the world’s ageing population. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that “between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over sixty years will …
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