Elder Care Services in Kolkata

15 Nov

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Incidents of Senior Falls

It was 6AM in the morning. Suddenly the door bell rang. It was not a normal mundane ringing. There was some kind of chaos going on outside. Opening the door revealed my grandmother standing with blood all over her...

Swarnali Roy

Elder Care

23 Oct

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Fear of Falling Down

We all start running from the moment we gain consciousness. First we run to play, and then we run for school, then for college, then for work and life. We run until we feel the pain for the first...

Swarnali Roy

Elder Care, Pains & Aches

17 Oct

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Managing the Holiday Blues in Elderly

Durga Puja (or Dusshera) is the most important and most eventful occasion of the year, especially in this part of the country. It is the time of togetherness and happiness. However, if you’re hung up on work abroad and...

Rishav Majumder

Elder Care

17 Oct

0

Dietary Tips for the Elderly during the Pujas

Maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle is necessary throughout a person’s lifetime, more so for seniors. There are certain foods that are considered ‘healthy’ but are not so for elders. Various foods considered unfit for elders due to the...

Palak Agarwal

Elder Care

15 Oct

0

Dementia and Math and my Dad

Dad’s gone into his shell. He’d simply stopped thinking. To get him back I decided to go back to what he was good at. Math. Actually he was a wizard with numbers. You gave him a number and some...

Swarnali Roy

Dementia, Elder Care

10 Oct

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How elder and dementia care help stubborn parents?

We all know how stubborn elderly parents can get, especially when it comes to taking the advice of their ‘kids’. It is futile to argue with them because “parents are always right”, correct? Another factor that makes them stubborn...

Rishav Majumder

Dementia, Elder Care

15 Jun

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Happy Father’s Day, Baba!

The younger of two girls, I was always my father’s pet. All those times of Baba making me practice mathematics with oceans of patience, walking me to school, instilling values in me are indelibly etched in my memory. I’ll...

Lovely Mitra

Elder Care

15 Jun

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#MydadMyhero: Happy Father’s Day

FATHER’S DAY. Well, the job of a father is not to bear children or to deliver them physically into this world. That is a mother’s lot. No – a father’s job is to shelter them, clothe them, feed them...

Lovely Mitra

Elder Care

07 Jun

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10 Must Haves for Senior Safety

The comfort of living in your own home is incomparable. No matter what your age, there is no substitute for it. However, with age, there are many changes that occur in the body that makes it difficult for people...

Lovely Mitra

Elder Care, Lifestyle

26 May

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Is it loneliness or is it depression?

“Man is an island.” ~ John Donne (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions) Whether or not this statement is true, the fact is the pace of modern life has created deep chasms between people. We are getting progressively disconnected from one...

Lovely Mitra

Elder Care, Mental Health

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