Self-care for older adults
World Consumer Rights Day Special-Health: Self-care for older adults
By 2025, an estimated 1.2 billion individuals worldwide will be 60 years of age or older, up from 600 million in 2007, according to the WHO. India’s population is young on an average as compared to the US or Europe. However, by the year 2025, we will have a substantial ageing population in absolute terms. This article brings out some of the many ways you can lead a healthy life into your later years
An elderly person is nothing but a young person who is vulnerable, who knows it, and can do nothing about it. Older adults may be able to take care of themselves but they need some help along the way. Help may be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual.
Know yourself
Perhaps the most important exhortation, a message handed down from our ancient scriptures and echoed by management gurus, is to know one’s self, including but not limited to, our strengths and weaknesses. By knowing strengths we can focus and build upon them to create wealth and fulfillment. Awareness of weaknesses helps avert failure by securing appropriate collaborations to complement our weaknesses. This is particularly important for starting your second career if you are close to retirement or if you are in-between jobs.
Nourish your creative faculties by good nutrition and healthy relationships
There are several examples of people who have done their best work after the age of 65. However, many of these people retained an active life with a sharp mind and more or less healthy body in the years following their 40th year. Ageing of the body can be slowed but is inevitable. A healthy mind within an ageing