Islamabad High Court Judges wrote a letter to Supreme Judicial Council.pdf
Problems of elderly
1. AGE FRIENDLY KERALA
PUBLIC OPINION FORUM
VENUE: ALUVA GUEST HOUSE
25/11/2015
ARUN GEORGE
MSW II YEAR
RCSS
2. • First Public opinion camp for collecting
suggestions and opinions for age friendly
KERALA
• Special officer: V.K.Beeran
• Inauguration by: M.M.Pareet Pillai (former
chief justice)
• Venue: Guest House Aluva
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3. PARTICIPANTS
• Senior advocates
• advocates
• Delegates of Ngo’s
• Presidents of different old age associations
• Sisters of orphanages
• Members of charitable trusts
• SSWs
• MSWs
• Common people
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4. Nature of Camp
• Tea
• public meeting
• Opinions received oral(2 minutes) and written
• Phone no collected all those who spoke
• Thanks giving by V.K.Beeran
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5. Problems and Demands of elderly
• Elderly friendly hospitals (special care)
• Availability of generic medicine from all govt hospitals.
• Free treatment and subsidies for medicine.
• Age friendly infrastructure in hospitals
• Experienced nurses to deal with old people
• Provision of getting decent death at hospitals
• Organ donation instructions
• Health medical camps and distribution of master cards for free
medicines (take it as govt responsibility)
• Anganawady and Ashraya projects must be linked to age friendly
activities
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6. • Old age pension should be given on every month
and a timely increase in pension
• Orphanage provisions (food and medicine) or grants
must not be derailed.
• “Vayojana vakuppu” – govt department for old age
people
• The procedure of ensuring a man is alive for
pension is very pathetic…use social network or PRO
should come to old people for ensuring….
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8. • Reserved Bus seats should be shifted to the centre
• Concession in travelling in buses(30%)
• Vehicles needed for pakal veedu and must be linked
to pain and palliative care of PHC
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9. • In order to tap the experience of old people they
must be included in the monitoring and evaluation
committee for small remunarations by LSG
• LSG provision for elderly to be increased from 5% to
10%
• Lack of day care centers for old people (Pakal
veedu) and no grants from LSG for running this
Pakal veedu
• Link to jagrata samiti
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10. • State level- chairman chief justice
• District level- chairman district judge
• Village level
• Ward committee
– they must be given judicial power
– Petition to be handled by them
Structure of age friendly board
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11. • Bank should lend loans to old people
• The terminological shift: from old people to
senior citizens
• Special consideration for old people in long
cues in govt departments
• The threat of other state people must be
invigilated by police seriously
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12. • Age friendly concepts must be taught in the class
rooms and must be included in the curriculum
• Services of social workers and councillors must be
used for the benefit of old age people
• Lunch to be provided to bed ridden people
• Awareness classes for old age people instilling
hope and will to deal uncertainties.
• Food path must be constructed while road
planning
• Visa processing problems and toil of the old
people in abroad who are with the children
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13. Regarding voting of old age people
• Voting friendly atmosphere for old people
– old people have problem of travelling
– vote verifications must not be biased
– Age friendly measures to be adopted
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14. Adv. Shefi fcc
• Orphanages should be small communities
comprising 20 to 30 people
• The provisions of govt are not sufficing and
looking after more than 150 people is very
tedious job . The one to one sharing is
impossible in this regard.
• Old pension must be given the persons
wherever they are that is even if they are in
homes, streets or orphanage.
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15. Main NGOs
• Vayomitram
• Theruvu velicham
• Help age India
• Dementia centre
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