WORKSHOP
Firstly since our programme was of 21 days so we selected different old age home situated at different corners of delhi to consider all factor of forces such as presence of market near by, presence of religious places near by , presence of other facilities near by etc.
After successful completion of this research our next aim would be to make this awareness among people living in residential areas .
Entertainment along with tests was the main tool used by us to interact with people and make them comfortable with us and make sure to have their continuous involvement for 21 days.
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OUR team has prepared 21 days daily routine schedule in which we would daily interact with them regarding their health , habits , conditions of old age home , facilities required , medication prescribed , nutritional intake, physical exercise, sleeping patterns , mental exercise practice etc and give them a simple memory test (based on international standards ) .
After that we used to have an entertainment session where we would entertain them using different methods daily and which were again related to their mental exercise like playing music identification games , singing of classic songs of their time, identifying actor whose picture is shown , meditation session , talk on health benefits of different items , playing carrom and a lots more. Daily enjoyment pack for them as well as for us and the most interesting part was "Experience sharing Round " where we used to ask members their experience on different aspects of life and some of memorable moments of their life . Through this we gained a lot of moral and ethical values which can't be described in words and members also used to feel happy that , yes! some one is there who listens to me. i can share everything with him . he will understand me .
"hame aadat ho gyi tumhari ..." these were real words from an old uncle who was so much happy after attending our workshop .
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All those who are reading this site I would like to share my experience after conducting these workshops . people we used meet at old age home didn't had any such technical disease . what I found was they were alone , they needed someone whom they can call as family , with whom they can share their thoughts . with whom they can have a comfort zone , with whom their mind finds peace . That's it ! our parents , our responsibility to take care , some people living in old age also do have a family but that also for a name , instead they have no family , they are just spending life ,not living it .
all these diseases like dementia , Alzheimer etc . are a consequence of depression , loneliness and frustration at mindset level . All they need is to be socialize and have a "caring family".