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What does ageing mean to you?     Part-I What comes to your mind first when you hear the word “elderly”? A stooped posture, wrinkled skin, aching knees, graying hair, a stick to carry yourself onto, slurred speech, forgetfulness, loneliness or death? How you define ageing is your perception of looking at it. Unfortunately, most of us imagine ageing as growing towards death and losing everything you earned along the way one asset at a time (which is true in most cases). Our society has been looking at growing old mostly in a negative way. And the reason behind believing that you cannot teach old men new tricks is a restricted way of thinking which is confined to thinking what society continued to think over decades. This negativity eventually causes the person who is ageing somehow end up negatively (even if he desired positivity) because of lack of awareness about growing old and as a result society imposing continuous pressure of ageing. No, it’s not that sim...

Choosing between the two: Yoga or physiotherapy? Many of us often wonder, what could be the best method that we can adapt in order to live a healthy lifestyle. We think of a number of ways to inherit physical activity in our daily routine. Whenever we discuss such issues with our family, friends and society everyone has their own opinions to offer. Some believe gym is the temple, where as some others go for dancing, or maybe boxing or martial arts on some higher levels. But the most common advice we get to receive these days is about yoga. Yoga is considered to be one of the best ways to keep your mind and body free from illness. There is one more scenario where people, particularly patients who are undergoing a physiotherapy treatment often ask about what is better to do while recovering and continue to keeping your body well in the long run, “yoga” or “physiotherapy”? Sometimes people don’t understand the difference between the two, “because physical activity is physical activity...

Gender equity in Healthcare Sector. image from google A medical school comprises of one-third of the male population. Rest of the seats are all occupied by the females. If you are a medical student, you’ll relate with me. Girls are in majority, in every healthcare profession including but not limiting to Physicians, Dentists, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Psychologists, nurses. But how often do you see a female surgeon? Or a female medical superintendent? As per the population, a team of doctors must include 7 female doctors out of 10 members. But this isn’t what happens. More females are graduating every year from a medical school but how many of them are employed by the health care systems? Except for the nursing profession which has a majority of female employees in India, other branches of medicine lack female workers especially in head roles. According to a study by WHO, 70% of the women make up the health work force but only 25% are on senior positions...