5 Creative Ways to Communicate with Older Adults While Maintaining Social Distance

5 Creative Ways to Communicate with Older Adults While Maintaining Social Distance

Are you worried about your older adults during the lockdown period? Are you wondering how they must be coping, alone? Well, your concerns are justified. With the coronavirus pandemic, life has come to a grinding halt for everyone, everywhere. While the younger generation is keeping busy with work, studies, and family life, the older parents and grandparents have little to keep themselves occupied. Even when this prolonged lockdown ends, the older adults will need to maintain social distance and stay at home. However, being alone gets boring. Isn’t it? If they sound tired, low, or depressed, then it’s time you need to introduce them to some creative ways to communicate. Maintain social distance yet stay connected and happy. Continue reading “5 Creative Ways to Communicate with Older Adults While Maintaining Social Distance”

Caregiving during COVID19

Caregiving during COVID19

Samvedna Senior Care Foundation organized an online Dementia Support Group Meeting on 2nd May, 2020. The agenda of the meeting was ‘Caregiving during COVID 19’.  It was heartening to see participants logging in from different parts of the country.  The objective of the meeting was to understand how caregivers were managing their loved ones and coping with caregiver stress during the lockdown and also share experiences and suggest tips and solutions for better care management during this tough time. Continue reading “Caregiving during COVID19”

Coronavirus and Senior Citizens: All You Need To Know

Coronavirus and Senior Citizens: All You Need To Know

This article is written by Dr. Shahnawaz Mushtaq, Clinical Psychologist, PhD (AMU)

Coronavirus has been front page news for a while and has spread all over the world. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses. In general, human coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that range from the common cold to more serious illnesses like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). COVID-19 is the name for a new virus that’s been spreading across the globe since late December 2019. Similar to seasonal flu, COVID-19 is passed between people through coughing, sneezing, or close contact like touching or shaking hands. It can also be transmitted by touching a surface with the virus on it and then touching the eyes, nose, or mouth without washing hands. Continue reading “Coronavirus and Senior Citizens: All You Need To Know”