68 Pages Subscription: `.1100 p.a. THE MAGAZINE FOR PRODUCTIVE AGEING March 2018 FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY Budget 2018 The Good, the Bad and theMarch | 2018ChallengeDignity Dialogue FIRST WORD pon reflection, it seems that finally, when we have retired from active life and are free U to spend our time the way we want to, what it all really boils down to are two important things: money and health. This point was driven home a few days back in Huned Contractor the course of a conversation with a businessman who, after almost five decades of hard work, has handed over the reins of his burgeoning empire to his two sons. Now, he wishes to spend time in spiritual pursuits and looking after his health. “Due to my hectic work schedule and the almost 10-15 days of travel each month, I never had the time to look after my diet or do something about my obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Last year, I came very close to getting a heart attack and my cholesterol levels were found to be too high. Now, the first thing I have done is to start on a strict diet along with yoga and walking,” he told me. It’s a kind of refrain I hear from many of the senior citizens I meet. When family commitments have been taken care of and there is a sense of achievement about having done well in professional life, the agenda shifts to what’s the body up to and how much money is there in the bank and locked up in investments to see if it is enough to help you tide over the remaining years. As such, you will notice a gradual shift in the editorial content of Dignity Dialogue. We now have independent sections on various themes and within this structure, health and money matters are being given more importance along with various ways to make your life more interesting and exciting. Travel, of course, seems to be a big favourite among those who have retired and are still active enough to pack their suitcases whenever the urge to take off becomes too hard to resist. In most cases, children settled in the US, UK or other countries is enough excuse to travel. In some cases, as is evident from the articles that are sent to us, people are taking advantage of the group packages offered by travel agencies to visit places they hitherto had no time or money for. In fact, I was quite surprised when I recently bumped into two gentlemen in their mid-sixties at Kamshet near Pune who were trying to find out from a local how they could indulge in paragliding. Kamshet, incidentally, is famous for its paragliding spot. In short, now is the time to get your new priorities in order! . March | 2018 Dignity Dialogue Dignity Dialogue March | 2018 LETTERS Dignity Foundation: A an explanation of any without having a clue March 2018 VOL 23 ISSUE 03 confusing terms on your what else the patient is Perfect Role Model prescription. There’s taking. It turns out that n the Dignity upon the DF members really no such thing as a only one or two of the IFoundation’s Annual to participate in helpline safe drug. The best drugs assortments of drugs Report 2017, what got and companionship are simply those whose are really needed and my attention was Dr. projects, which are an benefits far outweigh once the unnecessary Sheilu Sreenivasan’s integral part of DF’s message, which struck activities. A visit to the me as most essential Dignity Lifestyle Homes in comprehending the near Neral is enough ideal motto of DF. I for a visitor to realise quote: “I would want to the urgent requirement imagine that the focus for help to be extended on the mission and not to single, lonely and the money should be the helpless aged, more so guiding force, because in the disabled or the semi- the social sector, money invalids with various is a means to an end, not ailments. DLH is an ideal an end in itself.” It is very model of a township for difficult to drive home elders, a paradise in the their hazards. Aspirin, medicines are eliminated this point to the present wilderness. for example, is an the patient starts feeling excellent painkiller and much better. generation, especially Kusum Gokarn for whom commercial prevents heart attacks, A good doctor is one who E-mail: gain and profit is an end but can sometimes cause knows about all drugs, gokarnkusum@gmail. in itself in any career serious gastrointestinal but who prescribes as com or profession they bleeding or, in rare few drugs as possible pursue. Gone are the Pill Precautions cases, leads to Reye’s — someone who days of’ simple living he right medicine syndrome in children. believes in therapeutic and high thinking that Tfor the right patient Older people are minimalism. In contrast our ancestors taught us in the right dose by especially prone to the to today’s enthusiasm as the ideal goal to be the right route at the problem of unnecessary for drugs, it is wiser for achieved in life. right time: this golden drugging. Often, once a you to be a therapeutic It is also encouraging rule sums up the ideal doctor starts a patient to see that all DF Chai prescription. Your first on a medicine, the Masti centres are taking step should be to clearly latter continues taking such an enthusiastic understand what the it, whether or not he interest in promoting doctor has written! Don’t needs it anymore. And various social and leave with questions each specialist adds his entertainment activities. unanswered: ask your prescription to the drug I would like to stress doctor or chemist for overload, invariably March | 2018 04 March | 2018Dignity Dialogue Dignity Dialogue Dignity Dialogue Dignity Dialogue March | 2018 05 LETTERS nihilist as well, in order striving to achieve here. medical care. Each medical and surgical was held on Sunday, to Chhatrapati Shivaji to let the body heal itself I have been associated family has to spend specialties should be January 21, 2018. It is Railway Terminus whenever possible. It with the DF through more for their medical better utilised and the richest race in India (CSRT) through Azad is important that you its Kolkata Chapter for expenses from their the general public can with a prize pool of Maidan. The run continue to keep track nearly two decades and hard-earned savings. consult them after duty USD 4,05,000 for the started at 7.25 am. of your medicines even enjoying my time as an In order to cater to the hours by payment of winners. And a matter We were greeted and while you are in hospital. octogenarian. It may be growing population, prescribed fees. There of pride was that the cheered profusely by Don’t automatically a good idea to sell this the government should is no doubt that this Versova Chai Masti the crowd standing on assume that the nurse idea more forcefully so start more peripheral goal of ‘Health for All’ members participated the footpaths. There will give you the right that elders do not suffer care centres in the urban can be achieved through enthusiastically and were stages were medicine at the right on this count. Let this areas. The tertiary proper planning and experienced the joy erected on the roads by time; after all, they are be our pledge in year medical care provided implementation. of walking. About NGOs and companies human too. 2018!. by city medical college R Bhaskar 44,000 people from all promoting fun, music Adi F. Merchant Dipak Ranjan Nag hospitals should be walks of life, including and dance. It was like upgraded to provide E-mail: None Bollywood celebrities, a mini-cultural India E-mail: None E-mail: dipak.nag@ facilities for advanced Mumbai sports personalities, and a heritage walk gmail.com Dealing with medical and surgical Marathon: A business tycoons and with nostalgia. The care. amateur athletes, route was CSRT, Flora Loneliness Health must be a Fun Event This will obviate the joined the run. 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