Dear All
Got the opportunity to continue my research study and publication and find the updates published recently in MAHILA PRATISHTHA during January - March 2021 and brief details includes:
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ABSTRACT
The
Caregivers of Elders’ Care are playing a key role but facing several challenges
with uncertainties and further leading poor quality of life. The migration from
villages to cities and cities to other parts including other countries either
it is healthy or unhealthy is in increasing trend alarming the basic structure,
dynamics, culture, and traditions. The situation is much similar both in rural
and urban environments with variation in economical status. In view of such changes
in the family dynamics, Elders’ Care (60+ years) particularly women who have been
left out is becoming more and more complex with several challenges. On the other
side, the care of Elders with disabilities is more complicated as they need
special care. In such processes, Caregivers though gets good satisfaction but are
marginalized with uncertainties leading poor quality of life. The Elders Care
and role of Caregivers has to be seen as two sides of the same coin. The need
of the hour is to accept the realities of Elders’ Care and plan for matching
strategies and interventions so that Elders as well as Caregivers particularly women
will have happy and healthy life with improved wellbeing or quality of life. The
efforts made by the Government can be strengthened with the Private, Corporate
and NGOs working on the model of partnership. The opportunities developed for
caregivers empowers them for better growth and development and further to be
more effective and efficient in serving elders. The initiatives taken up have resulted
for significant impact and motivated the groups to work for the wellbeing of
elders as well as caregivers.
Conclusions
The study made
on the wellbeing of caregivers as well as elders has gained priority and the
key conclusions emerged include:
ü
The
Caregivers of Elders’ Care at Residence, Community, and Homes are playing a key
role but facing several challenges both socially and economically with uncertainties
and further leading poor quality of life.
ü Ageing is
natures’ gift as a reality and has to be accepted by every human being as there
is no option.
ü In view of changes
in the family dynamics, Elders’ Care (60+ years) particularly women who have
been left out is becoming more and more complex.
ü The care of
Elders with disabilities is more complicated as they need special care matching
to their disabilities, its severity and living environment.
ü Caregivers
mostly working in unorganized sectors though gets good satisfaction but are
marginalized both socially and economically with uncertainties forcing to lead
poor quality of life.
ü The Elders Care
and role of Caregivers has to be seen as two sides of the same coin as they are
interlinked and travel together.
ü The need of the
hour is to accept the realities of Elders’ Care and plan for matching
strategies and interventions so that Elders as well as Caregivers will have
happy and healthy life with improved wellness or quality of life.
ü Elders do have specific needs and some of them
include Health Care, Rehabilitation, Skill Development, Environment, and
Employment or Livelihoods which finally supports for their inclusion with family
for happy and healthy life with improved quality of life.
ü To minimize the
challenges of elders (including elders with disabilities) and to protect them,
Government came up with several Acts & Policies.
ü The needs of the caregivers include Personal Care,
Domestic Care, Physical Care, Health Care, Financial Care, Communication Care,
Environmental Care, and other need based Care which finally works for the
empowerment of caregivers with improved quality of life.
ü The wellbeing domains
of elders as well as caregivers include Emotional, Spiritual, Social,
Intellectual, Physical, Occupational, Financial and Environmental.
ü While serving the
Elders, the caregivers will get affected both socially and economically and
further leads poor quality of life.
ü The need of the
hour is to accept all such challenges of caregivers and look for creating
opportunities so that their wellbeing will be improved as it is very well
linked up with the wellbeing of elders who are the most vulnerable and
marginalized including isolation.
ü There exist several opportunities as part of the
empowerment of caregivers for better living with improved wellbeing.
ü While working for
the wellbeing of Elders as well as Caregivers, Government and Private do face
several limitations as it dominantly works with top down approaches with poor connectivity.
ü The CSOs or NGOs
staying very near to the Elders as well as the Caregivers do have several advantages
as it works with bottom up approaches having better connectivity and relationship.
ü The need of the
hour is to support such NGOs and allow them to work with Government, and
Private (or Corporate) on partnership basis know as Government Private and NGO Partnership.
ü The initiatives taken
up for caregivers, elders, and NGOs have resulted for better growth &
development, economical & social security, and improved quality of life of
caregivers which further resulted for happy & healthy life of elders as
wellbeing of all connected with the service domain of elders’ care.
ü The strategies, approaches,
initiatives, and models used in the study are simple, flexible, replicable,
scalable and sustainable matching to the dynamics of the given environment.
Recommendations
The wellbeing of
elders as well as the caregivers gains priority with increasing demand and the recommendation
made include:
ü To strengthen the
family linkages for making elders care as an inclusive at home and community.
ü To encourage students
to be the change makers at home and communities for improving the bondage with
elders treating them as an asset to the family and community.
ü To support students
to take up project work and research study on ageing, elders care, caregivers, and
other associated domains.
ü To support for the
empowerment of Caregivers with better growth and development who intern works
for the wellbeing of self and elders.
ü To support for the development of Integrated Care cum Rehabilitation homes for Elders with matching facilities for Caregivers.
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