Monday 21 April 2014

One more example of Active Ageing


Came across an interesting video (http://youtu.be/hjHnWz3EyHs), where an 80 year old lady, Paddy is found to be dancing with full vigor and enthusiasm.

This video is from entertainment industry where often youths are given much preference as compared to older people because often youth is associated with active life and vigor. This beautiful and talented lady has negated such stereotypes through her wonderful performance. She is one of the best example of active ageing.

One noticeable thing in this video is the strong bonding between Paddy and her young dancing partner Nico. To me this is one of the best example of inter-generational bonding as well. This shows that art and dance can bring people from two different generation together to  perform something amazing through a good bonding.


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Wednesday 16 April 2014

86+ year old gymnast

For those who believe that senior citizens are frail and not very physically active, I am sure this video (http://youtu.be/CTWo9EfQ4Hc) is going to change their perception.

This video shows an 86+ year old gymnast Johanna Quaas, demonstrating her gymnastic skills as energetically as an younger person. She is a German citizens and was announced as world's oldest gymnast in 2012.

I strongly believe that such real life cases always play an important role in negating the myths about old age existing in our society and also emphasizing the role of active lifestyle towards leading a healthy and productive life.


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Thursday 10 April 2014

A meet for Social Good


Attended  India + Social Good event in Mumbai yesterday. It was a great experience as it gave me an opportunity to listen to the experiences of various change-makers who are really doing great innovative work for social good in our society. It also gave me a platform to interact with like minded people working on various social issues.

Though, the topics covered in various sessions such as social media,health and innovation, development of cities, climate and energy and other developmental issues were generic, however they were relevant in the case of senior citizens too. I would request the organizing committee especially the UN Foundation to include specific issues related to senior citizens too in future.

With the population of senior citizens reaching around 104 million in India, promotion of their health and well-being has become an important issue for most of us. So, in future if such event are held I would appreciate if issues related to senior citizen's health, economic security, second career, human rights are also covered for the promotion of healthy and productive ageing in India.

I wish such initiative must go on, so that people like me can get an opportunity to meet like minded people around the world both in person and through Social Media.

Would like to request all those reading this post to please give your vote on various social concerns which matters to you on : http://www.myworld2015.org/. I have already given my vote! This is a great initiative by United Nations towards making the world a better place to live.

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Monday 7 April 2014

Nutritional diet a must for Healthy Ageing


Sharing an interesting video by WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/video/aging-nutrition) which emphasizes that one's lifestyle and eating habit in his/her young age plays an important role in determining their health conditions in old age. Life Span Approach also mentions about this.

The video also highlights that intake of nutritional diets can help in controlling various health problems in old age and thus contributing in promotion of healthy, productive and active ageing.

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World Health Day, 2014

Today on the occasion of  World Health Day, I would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy life ahead.

Health is an important issue at all stages of life. It has been proved in various researches that healthy and productive life in old age is dependent on healthy lifestyle in young age. So, if one is leading a healthy lifestyle in young age  there is high probability that he/she will lead an active, healthy and productive life in later part of life.

This year's message for World Health Day by World Health Organization (WHO) is Mosquitoes, flies, ticks and bugs may be a threat to one's health and that of their family at home and when travelling so one should take precautions to prevent themselves from being infected by vector-borne diseases which happens due to these insects. They have even circulated a video for taking such precautions (http://youtu.be/LutGFrwysRI).

Lets all of us pledge today to not only prevent oneself from being infected by vector-borne diseases but by other health problems too by leading a healthy lifestyle and taking appropriate precautions.

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