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This presentation discusses the importance of elders and issues they face. Elders share their life experiences and promote cultural values, acting as mentors. However, they often face neglect from busy children, loneliness, abuse, hopelessness, and helplessness. To help, the government launched pension programs, there are awareness days for elder abuse, and we can increase awareness, education, respite care, counseling, and celebrate grandparents. The presentation concludes by advocating for letting elders age gracefully with dignity and respect.
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- 3. FORGET ME NOT ! Caringfor elders….
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- 5. THEY SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES Eldersas they also have seen life closely and are always willing to share their experiences and guide us through. Experiences from their life can act as a torchbearer for us in the long run.
- 6. THEY PROMOTE A CULTURALSOCIAL SETUP Any social setup is considered more cultured if its people treat their senior citizens with respect and care. A society devoid of blessings from its senior people surely runs down the drain in absence of any guidance.
- 7. ELDERS ARE TRANSISTOR OFMORAL VALUES Elders are very important in the busy world of today where most of the married couples are working. This results in no time for their kids which end up swayed in wrong direction in absence of right teachings. It is therefore imperative to have elders in your family so that our futuregeneration grows up with required moral value and knowledge of culture.
- 8. THEY LOVE US UNCONDITIONALLY Nomatter what we do in life, who we become, where we live, who you are with —our elders will always love us unconditionally. This kind of unconditional love is hard to find anywhere else in this universe.
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- 11. NEGLECT BY THEIR CHILDREN Dueto generation gap and materialistic attitude children often neglect their parents . They get busy with their own lives and forget the foundation stones who made them what they are .
- 12. LONELINESS Children are busywith work and may not even come to visit them. Grandchildren are busy in schools. Physically weak elderly may feel that they are burden on them so they try to stay away even if people are around . Loneliness leads to depression –they feel alone and unprotected.
- 13. ABUSE Elder abuse isthe infliction of physical, emotional/psychological or financial harm on an older adult. Elder abuse can also take the form of intentional or unintentional neglect of an older adult by the caregiver .
- 14. HOPELESSNESS A sense of hopelessnessreflects a negative view of the future. This includes expectations of personal dissatisfaction, failure, and a continuation of pain and difficulty-- a belief that nothing will get better.
- 15. Feelings of helplessness reflect anegative view of the self. Depressed individuals view themselves more negatively, their self-esteem suffers, and they have little or no self- confidence. HELPLESSNESS
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- 18. Government of Indiahad launch a pension plan called Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana on 15th August 2014.Its objective is to provide social security to the senior citizen of the country . It is treated as best pension plan because returns quoted as more than 9%. VARISHTHA PENSION BIMA YOJANA
- 19. WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESSDAY World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) was launched on June 15, 2006 for the Prevention of Elder Abuse by the International Network and the World Health Organization at the United Nations.
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- 21. INCREASING AWARENESS Increasing awareness among familymembers can help break pattern of abuse or neglect , and both the person experiencing the abuse and the abuser can receive needed help.
- 22. EDUCATION There is aneed to educate the public about the special needs and problems of older adults and the risk factors for abuse
- 23. RESPITE CARE Having someoneelse care for the elder , even for few hours each week is essential to reduce caregiver stress, a major contributing factor in elder abuse.
- 24. COUNSELLING Counselling for behavioralor personal problems in the family or for the individuals with mental health and/or abuse problem can play a significant role in helping people change lifelong pattern of behaviour or find solution to problem emerging from current stressess
- 25. CELEBRATE NATIONAL GRANDPARENT’S DAY Weshould celebrate national Grandparent's Day. This special day is meant to honour the love between grandparents and grandchildren, as well as to help children become aware of the strength, information and guidance that the older adults in their lives can offer.
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- 29. LET US TAKEPLEDGE TO LET OUR ELDERS AGE GRACEFULLY ,RESPECTFULLY AND WITH DIGNITY .