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Budhape ki Lakdi
WHY THE NEED
Ageing is an inevitable process of life. Ageing has gone beyond the realm of welfare concern and it is the need of the hour and it should be treated as an developmental challenge in the society. Overall the elderly percentage in about 9% among the population and day by day it is increasing due to increase in life expectancy, development in health care services, health, education and health awareness and health consciousness since early stage of graying.
An empty nest syndrome is in reverse gear, growing over busy nuclear families, double wages earning, likes and dislikes, family environment are the factors assessing ,evaluation, planning,. identifying the needs of elders and thereby the care givers –A spouse ? Adult child ? Grand Children! Sibling! Friends! Sympathetic Neighbour? or a Band wagon of so called Lip service providers or an completely unrelated partly or fully trained or untrained yet dedicated to serve on full or part time, paid or unpaid care gives with a long term availability, or part time, serving with zeal and enthusiasm honestly serving the senior in need.
Options :-
HOME CARE: - As seniors generally have a tendency not to leave the old premises at the fag end of their life but this still stands out to be the best choice among the seniors.
Option 1:- These care givers gives are armed with minimum basic qualification, training and experience in rendering essential services receiving a fixed payment. as jointly decided by both parties .
Money life 2011 …estimates that India would requiring some 25 millions caregivers to respond to the care the elders that means the country needs to plan for having capacity of 6,25,00 care givers each year for the next 40 years. And this is where our problem starts.
The relationship between two can ensure a reasonable accountability, honest commitment between both the parties observin in a close watch on both of them .The most importance issue of course is Security .
They should be trained to carry out the basic things e.g. check blood pressure ,check sugar by simple machines or collect blood sample , manage bed sores, provide first aid, normal physiotherapy, handle mood swings, keeping a close watch on the physical and mental activities of the elders, a sensitive’ approach to the elders a positive friendly conscientiousness and of course a zeal to serve the elder with a sense of responsibility .
Helping to cope up with psychosocial days functional and cognitive determination e. g loosing conversation, forgetting names, place, braving the unusual but usually usual irritably attitude keeping in aim that this all is due to again.
Option 2 Trained care givers. Trained Staff nurses, auxiliary Nurses, midwives, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, or a full team of comprising all the above as a team or separately on fixed timings.
In any of the individual case demands semi trained there are one of the many courses run by many departments e.g. National Institute Social Defense, One year P.G diploma in integrated Geriatric care, Intensive care or short term training as proposed by Central govt Bharat Vikas Kaushal Yojna or some type of training to take care of the seniors .
All above many be very costly and now effective in long run but it may be a necessity in cases like Hemiplagia, Paraplegia, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, incontinence of bowels, urine, frightfulness. Etc. of course they need to paid accordingly to their qualifications.

Option 3
A Geriatric day care centre or a old age home having a furnished accommodation according to the needs of the elders , A warm caring personalized staff with all possible facilities and more daily monitoring of the activities of the senior. Medical care, expert opinion on call, and most important many many options to cope up with the loneliness of the seniors. e.g. celebrating functions, birthdays, anniversaries, going for a pleasant outing persuade the elders to participate in spiritual activities, satsangs music. these all above measure may give a respite and booster the zeal and enthusiasm to the loneliness of the seniors to live there rest of the life in happiness.
Option 4:- Providing basic training to teachers, Anganwadi workers, cancellers, ASHA workers or OUR YOUTH, SCHOOL COLLEGE STUDENTS/ NGO’S who really believe in social service HOUSE WIVES / PERSONS who want to do some positive meaning ful work truly for the society . AND HERE STARTS OUR CONCEPT OF BKL.
BUDHAPE KI LAKDI GROUP
May support in areas of ADL Activities of daily living, help in the nursing process. grooming, walking etc.
May help in outing, banking procedures, lending a helping hand to cheer up the down spirits taking them for an outing, e.g. movies, satsangs, picnics, meetings, get together of senior citizens.
Helping them to maintain them a prescribed Who can just identify the problems of the seniors and identity one and then subsequently Adopt one senior citizen in their vicinity , street , mohalla, gali and just play the role of a helpful friend and there by enlighten the ray of hope in the darkness of loneliness, a smiling companion to the elder, having a basic knowledge of the disease of the care receiver without under mining the self respect and self confidence of self as well as the care receiver.
dietary behavior, timely administration of medicines, and following the perfect protocol of treatment.
They need to understand the sensitive nature of their role ready to take certain steps in case of dire emergency own need to take certain important steps, like in case of emergency informing the near ones, reaching for an first aid ,ambulance , doctors or as the situation requires .
Freaking at occasionally at times forcing them for recreational activities, creative things according to their talent, story, letter, poetry reading, music, movies theatre movies, singing, spiritual get together SATSANG etc or anything special that can make the elder happy and fill up his emptiness of life .
Taking case of physical environment say day light reducing noise, social interaction .
Tensions
1:- Need to understands between affection and obligation which is most important of course there is a big huge obligation to the entire society as well as to the receiver but there may a overlapping of love and affection and if there is a feeling that there is no word like obligation.
2:- Critical tensions between rights of the persons carrying out the unpaid care work and one those of the persons requiring the work on paid basis or near ones who may hurt their feelings showing their occasional appearances.
3:- This is decision making who decides what is done with one for whom and when and for how long.
The person is supposed to maintain a perfect balance of power between them. Fourth is levels of responsibility the care giver must keep in mind there type of work is treated as a thankless job.
Fifth there is always a unseen tension prevailing between the paid and unpaid care givers but at times between today and tomorrow.
However these primary tension can be over powered by providing the care givers providing them gifts , cordial meaningful relations, lowering of working hours, praising their work. fixed hours for paid and at will hours for the unpaid caregiver BKL.
The whole concept of BKL lies on above principles.
These brigade of YOUNG ENERGETIC YOUTH can bring a tremendous change in the LONELINESS of senior Citizens, and on this date youth is a Ray of hope for the masters of the yester years . they in true can train the coming youth who may be a BKL for them is their old age. because age is not a kind partner is and thus the cycle moves on of this concept . The legacy of this passes on from one generation to other and this brightens up fills the life of the seniors. as there is always a light at the end of TUNNEL and there stands our BKL with a bright lantern in his hand .
All the above requirements may not be filled up completely but partial or part of them in starting then slowly we can start this concept, enlighten the fire and finally start the war,
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Director Dr. Sinha’s Innovation
Geriatric /Clinic Consultation Treatment
Daycare Centre Recreation Home/Care For
Dr. Sr. Citzen L. G. 8
Vinayak Central Plaxa Behind Big Bazaar, Civil Lines, Allahabad-211011 Vikalp A Luxury in old age Vill. Tendui Dr. P.K. Sinha
(Retd. C.M.O., Allahabad)
Mob no- 9415214503, 9935417490 E-mail- [email protected]
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Res.-A 104 Sunshine Heights Lohia Marg
Civil line, Allahabad 211011

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