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    Old Age Homes/ Day Care Centres/ Elder Residential Complexes For many older people who don’t have a roof over their heads or a place to call their own‚ HelpAge-supported old age homes & day care centres are safe havens where they can live their lives with dignity and interact with their peers. A rising trend is being noticed among the urban elderly also‚ who move out of their homes and into habitats especially catering to their needs‚ in order to spend their later years in comfort. HelpAge

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    1.Is old age a positive or negative for you? Growing old is a positive for me. Growing old shows that you have over come life’s obstacles. It shows a sense of strength. 2.Has old age made you look at life different? It never made me look at life different but it help me understand what life means. 3.If you could had been any age your entire life‚ what would it be? I would be somewhere around my early 30’s. I still felt alive but at the same time I lived long enough to learn from

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    shameful state of affairs that there has arisen a need for old age homes in modern times. Why do we need these homes? Why are we considering our older relatives as a burden on us? Not too long ago we used to have a strong joint family system. It was an unquestioned norm of the society to take care if of the elderly. It was considered an honour and a blessing. Sadly‚ joint families have become relics of the past. In this nuclear ageold people are considered a liability. Time is money. And time

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    Old age From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "Old people" redirects here. For the Khmer Rouge term‚ see New People. Old Woman Dozing by Nicolaes Maes (1656). Royal Museums of Fine Arts‚ Brussels Old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings‚ and thus the end of the human life cycle. Euphemisms and terms for old people include seniors (American usage)‚ senior citizens (British and American usage)‚ older adults (in the social

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    Our age worships youth. We yearn for beauty of youth. We encourage toddlers and teens to be individualistic and award them with full manhood. We hype 18 years old as our pop icon. We vote 40 years old into Presidency. But in retrospect‚ we think of the past just as much we think of the future. We respect culture and even dig into history for wisdom and guide for future actions. To maximize our own future benefits we have no choice but to pay attention and learn from the older and more experienced

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    Evaluation Report on Project    STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING OLD AGE HOMES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF 3  MORE HOMES IN PUNJAB                      DIRECTORATE GENERAL MONITORING & EVALUATION  PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT  GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB  December‚ 2012        P&D Department‚ 4­Civil Secretariat‚ Lahore‚ Punjab           Ph: +92(42)99214489‚ Fax: +92(42)99214491  www.dgmepunjab.gov.pk                                         

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    Old Age‚ Socialistic‚ and Acceptance Old age should be a time of enjoyment and being social. Sociologists feel that being socialistic begins at birth and ends when you die. Growing old does not mean you have to go into seclusion. Therefore‚ with this in mind‚ old age could be a time of traveling‚ exercising‚ and visiting others. This is a time for acceptance also since old age does mean that time is limited. From the time we are born‚ we are that much closer to death. Not a good way of

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    Is old age really golden age? What are its pros and cons? Human life is a long and complex process which passes through many stages. Each stage contains new circumstances and requirements to which one has to adapt. The great English poet W. Shakespeare described and divided the human life span into a number of stages: an infant‚ a schoolboy‚ a lover with agonies of adolescence‚ a soldier as a youngish‚ a justice as an adult‚ a pantaloon who is over the hill‚ and the second childhood with "sans teeth

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    Is old age really golden age? What are its pros and cons? Old age in human beings is the final stage of the normal life span. In most contemporary countries 60 or 65 is the age of eligibility for retirement and old-age social programs. Thus retirement is the golden age when senior citizens can escape the daily grind of work and the routine chores‚ moreover they spend their time doing gardening‚ taking holidays and chatting with friends. Many developed countries have certainly the greatest respect

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    The Problems of Old Age The old age is an integral part of human life. It is the evening of life. It is unavoidable‚ undesirable‚ unwelcome and problem- ridden phase of life. But it is really interesting to note that everybody wants to live a long life‚ but not to be old. It is ironical that however undesirable the old age‚ it is bound to come in life. A man is compelled to go through the pains and pleasures of this age like the other phases of life before making an exit from this mortal world

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