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Anand Ashram Trust (At Navi Mumbai)
Industry House, 159, Churchgate,
Mumbai-20.
TeL: 2026340
Asha Kiran
YWCA, Andheri,
Mumbai.
For Women
Assissi Bhavan
Pahadi Estate, Goregaon (E), Mumbai-63.
8400762
Male & Female free for poor.
Cardinal Gracias Destitute's Home
Missionaries Of Charity,
17,Chapel Lane,
Santacruz (W)
Mumbai 400054
Tel.: 26492994
Fax:
Email:
Profile:
Website: No
HOMES FOR AGED & NEEDY MEN / WOMEN
F.S. Parekh Dharmashala
Darul Muluk,
Hugles Road.
Mumbai-7.
Tel: 3645082
Aged Parsis free.
Haji Allarkha Sonawala Andhanath Shree Ashram
37, D. N. Rd., Andheri (W),
Mumbai-58.
Tel: 6282080
Female, 18-55 Years.
Indian Council of Social Welfare
175 Dr D N Road,
Fort,
Mumbai 400001
Karmayogi: A S Deshpande
Tel.: 22610462 / 22626145
Fax:
Email:
Profile:
Website: No
Irani Inmates
26, Pandita Ramabai Marg,
Gamedevi,
Mumbai-7.
Tel: 3681331
Male & Female Iranis above 60 Years.
Jamshetji Jeejibhoy Dharmashala
Shankar Puppala Road,
Nagpada,
Mumbai-8.
Tel: 3079838
Males & Females free.
Jeevan Asha
Veera Desai Rd,
Andheri (W)
Mumbai 400058
Tel.: 26236845 / 26708473
Fax:
Email:
Profile:
Website: No
HOMES FOR AGED & NEEDY MEN / WOMEN
Kalpataru Vruddhashram
24/259, Shastri Nagar,
Goregaon (W),
Mumbai-62.
Male & Female.
Mother Teresa's Home
17 Chapel Lane
Santacruz (W)
Mumbai 400054
Karmayogin: Sister Superior
Tel.: 26492994
Fax: no
Email: no
Profile:
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HOMES FOR WOMEN
PARAMSHANTIDHAM VRIDDHASHRAM TRUST
Taloja MIDC
Near Teknova Co.
Dist: Panvel, Taluka Raigad
Mumbai
Karmayogi: ABANAND MAHARAJ
Tel.: 2741 2695
Fax: 2741 2695
Email: no
Profile:
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Old Age for needy men and women
SENIOR CITIZENS SETTLEMENT FOUNDATION
Chheda Nagar
Mumbai
Karmayogi: M. S. PAI
Tel.: 25280827
Fax: 22022139
Email:
Profile:
Website: No
Shanti Niketan Bhagini
Gothivara, Father Wadi,
Vasai (E), 401205.
Shepherd Widow's Home
Shepherd Rd, Off Clare Rd,
Byculla,
Mumbai 400008
Tel.: 3088726
Fax:
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HOMES FOR AGED & NEEDY MEN / WOMEN
Strangers’ home
155, Motishah Lane,
Mazgaon,
Mumbai-10.
Males over 60 years.
The Asylum
Case Piedade, Hathi Baug,
Mazgaon,
Mumbai-10.
3750319
Aged free.
The Salvation Army Social Service Centre
Old Age Home
122 Maulana Azad Rd.
Byculla
Mumbai 400008
Karmayogi: Maj. J. K. Tribhuwan
Tel.: 23071346
Fax: no
Email: have
Profile:
Website: No
HOME FOR AGED & NEEDY MEN
Assisi Bhavan
C/O St. Joseph Training Institute
CIBA- Geigy Road
Goregaon (E)
Mumbai 400063
Tel: 28400762
Category: Aged
EMMANUEL HEALTH CARE RESEARCH CENTRE
A6/16/4, Jolly Jevan,
Borivli (west),
Mumbai 400 103
Tel. : +91-22-2807 5772 / 2893 0910
Fax: +91-22-28645269
Email: naturetherapy@rediffmail.com
Category: Aged
Help age India
Tel: 26231541, 26231634
Category: Aged
Indian Federation on Ageing
101- A Siddhivinayak
Off. Gurunanak Road
Bandra (W)
Mumbai 400050
Tel: 26244959
Category: Aged
Janakalyan Sevashram
14 Kusum Chedda Nagar
Chembur
Mumbai 400089
Tel: 25285816
Category: Aged
Our Lady of Piety Home
49, Vijaywadi
J. Shankar Seth Road
Marine Lines
Mumbai 400002
Tel: 22054922
Category: Aged
Senior Citizens Assistance
10 Shriganesh
18 Linking Road Extn.
Santacruz (W)
Mumbai 400054
Tel: 26603726
Category: Aged
Setu-Ghar Kamgar Sangam
Nirmala Niketan
38 New Marine Lines
Mumbai 400020
Tel: 22032615
Category: Aged
Shanti Dhan- Home For Sick & Dying Destitute
Missionaries of Charity
Goria Road
Borivali (W)
Mumbai - 400092
Tel: 28671362
Karmayogi: Brother-In-Charge
Category: Aged
The Society of the Helpers of Mary
Bal Bhavan-Shraddha Vihar
Veera Desai Road
Andheri (W)
Mumbai 400058
Tel: 26232546
Category: Aged
Notes: Provides boarding lodging and education for orphans.
Aadhaar Trust
Tel : 28636081
aadhaartrust@rediffmail.com
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Fear of Oldage
We are constantly searching for a magic cure for the malady of old age. Haunted by the spectre of old age, millions are taking recourse to drug therapy, diet therapy, gene therapy, various physical exercises, stress management, hair colouring, hair implantation, and a hundred other ways to maintain their youthful appearance. Billions of dollars are being spent by the cosmetics industry in search of products and ways to hide at least the outward signs of aging.The vast dependence on plastic surgery in the United States to hide the signs of aging is the sharpest index of our anxiety.
According to Jere Daniel, the author of an article entitled 'Society Fears Aging' in the book An Aging Population, 'In just two decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s, the number of wrinkle-removing face-lifts rose from 60,000 to an estimated 2 million a year at an annual cost of $ 10 billion.'2 But all our efforts to stop the advance of old age by material and psychological means prove futile. Eventually the lifted face falls again, implanted hairs do not grow, stress becomes unmanageable, the body refuses to exercise, drug therapy fails, and cosmetic make-up cannot hide any more the signs of old age. At last old age finds us out and catches hold of us. We grudgingly accept the inevitable. We moan, cry, and curse our fate. We never stop to think that having a longer old age is not living longer. It is dying longer.
According to Jere Daniel, the author of an article entitled 'Society Fears Aging' in the book An Aging Population, 'In just two decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s, the number of wrinkle-removing face-lifts rose from 60,000 to an estimated 2 million a year at an annual cost of $ 10 billion.'2 But all our efforts to stop the advance of old age by material and psychological means prove futile. Eventually the lifted face falls again, implanted hairs do not grow, stress becomes unmanageable, the body refuses to exercise, drug therapy fails, and cosmetic make-up cannot hide any more the signs of old age. At last old age finds us out and catches hold of us. We grudgingly accept the inevitable. We moan, cry, and curse our fate. We never stop to think that having a longer old age is not living longer. It is dying longer.
An article by Nancy J. Osgood
An article by Nancy J. Osgood entitled 'Society Does Not Respect the Elderly' in the book 'An Aging Population' states:
The glorification of youth and development of the youth cult in America began in the nineteenth century and grew rapidly in the twentieth, and it now flourishes in our present atmosphere of narcissism. Youth is associated with vitality, activity, and freshness. To be young is to be fully alive, exciting, attractive, healthy, and vigorous. Old age, on the other hand, is associated with decline, disease, disability, and death rather than wisdom, inner peace, and other positive qualities.Psychological factors influence ageism in our culture. The youth cult grows out of a profound fear of growing old.
Through the ages, few fears have cut as deeply into the human soul as the fear of aging. Americans especially have a stark terror of growing old. Old age is associated with loss of independence, physical disease, mental decline, loss of youthful vitality and beauty, and finally death, and old people are reminders of our own mortality. Because many people have limited contact with healthy, vibrant old people and lack accurate knowledge about the aging process, their fear escalates.
Ageism is manifested through stereotypes and myths about old people and aging. In medical circles older patients are stereotyped as 'crocks' or 'vegetables'. Other common terms for older people are old fuddy dutty, little old lady, and dirty old man. Old people are thought of as being fit for little else but sitting idly in a rocking chair. Older women are referred to as old witch, old bag, and old biddy. Old men are stereotyped as old geezers, old goats, and old codgers. Common stereotypes of aging view the old as out to pasture, over the hill, and all washed up.
The Western heritage in literature is replete with negative images of old age, beginning with the medieval works.
In American culture several mechanisms perpetuate and communicate ageist images, stereotypes, and myths: common aphorisms, literature, the media, and humour. Aphorisms about aging and older people permeate American culture. Some of the most common include: 'You can't trust anyone over forty'; 'You're only as old as you feel'; and 'Age before beauty.' These common sayings convey the idea that age is something to be denied or feared and allude to imagined losses accompanying the aging process.
The Western heritage in literature is replete with negative images of old age, beginning with the medieval works. The foolish lust of older women is described in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio. The physical ugliness and disgusting behaviour of the old were frequently highlighted in fairy tales such as 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White,' where old women are portrayed as wicked witches.
The emptiness of old age is a major theme in American literature. In the poem 'Gerontion,' T.S. Eliot provides a description of the empty misery of an old man: 'a dry brain in a dry season.' In his works Eliot describes old age as an empty wasteland. In every culture humour conveys attitudes about the aged. In our own society these attitudes are expressed through jokes, cartoons, comic strips, and birthday cards.
articlesource:living.oneindia.in
The glorification of youth and development of the youth cult in America began in the nineteenth century and grew rapidly in the twentieth, and it now flourishes in our present atmosphere of narcissism. Youth is associated with vitality, activity, and freshness. To be young is to be fully alive, exciting, attractive, healthy, and vigorous. Old age, on the other hand, is associated with decline, disease, disability, and death rather than wisdom, inner peace, and other positive qualities.Psychological factors influence ageism in our culture. The youth cult grows out of a profound fear of growing old.
Through the ages, few fears have cut as deeply into the human soul as the fear of aging. Americans especially have a stark terror of growing old. Old age is associated with loss of independence, physical disease, mental decline, loss of youthful vitality and beauty, and finally death, and old people are reminders of our own mortality. Because many people have limited contact with healthy, vibrant old people and lack accurate knowledge about the aging process, their fear escalates.
Ageism is manifested through stereotypes and myths about old people and aging. In medical circles older patients are stereotyped as 'crocks' or 'vegetables'. Other common terms for older people are old fuddy dutty, little old lady, and dirty old man. Old people are thought of as being fit for little else but sitting idly in a rocking chair. Older women are referred to as old witch, old bag, and old biddy. Old men are stereotyped as old geezers, old goats, and old codgers. Common stereotypes of aging view the old as out to pasture, over the hill, and all washed up.
The Western heritage in literature is replete with negative images of old age, beginning with the medieval works.
In American culture several mechanisms perpetuate and communicate ageist images, stereotypes, and myths: common aphorisms, literature, the media, and humour. Aphorisms about aging and older people permeate American culture. Some of the most common include: 'You can't trust anyone over forty'; 'You're only as old as you feel'; and 'Age before beauty.' These common sayings convey the idea that age is something to be denied or feared and allude to imagined losses accompanying the aging process.
The Western heritage in literature is replete with negative images of old age, beginning with the medieval works. The foolish lust of older women is described in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio. The physical ugliness and disgusting behaviour of the old were frequently highlighted in fairy tales such as 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White,' where old women are portrayed as wicked witches.
The emptiness of old age is a major theme in American literature. In the poem 'Gerontion,' T.S. Eliot provides a description of the empty misery of an old man: 'a dry brain in a dry season.' In his works Eliot describes old age as an empty wasteland. In every culture humour conveys attitudes about the aged. In our own society these attitudes are expressed through jokes, cartoons, comic strips, and birthday cards.
articlesource:living.oneindia.in
Who wants to get Old? No One
Even though we all know that old age is inescapable yet we refuse to accept it. We do not want to think of it. We try to forget it or ignore it. We resort to cliches and illusions to escape it. Our industrial age has created and promoted a youth culture that denies old age. In olden times, life was divided into four stages—childhood, youth, middle age, and old age; but our modern culture has downsized the categories to three—childhood, youth, and 'you are looking fine.' Coffeehouses put up signs saying, 'Don't blame our coffee. You too will one day be old and moldy.' Psychologists teach us to deny old age, saying: 'Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it does not matter.' Old people never call themselves old. A person who is 80 years old says 'I am 80 years young.'
Expressing disgust and dislike of old age, talk-show hosts have coined phrases, such as the 'Four Bs of old age: bunions, bulges, bifocals, and baldness.' Promoters of youth culture have invented terms like senior citizen and citizen of longer living to identify the old. For them, an old person is not old but biologically challenged; and a dead person is never dead but metabolically challenged. Yet old age refuses to reverse its course. Saying that 'old age is gracious,' or 'it is the greatest time to be old,' or 'old age is the best time of life—the golden years' does not make old age
different.
articlesource:living.oneindia.in
Expressing disgust and dislike of old age, talk-show hosts have coined phrases, such as the 'Four Bs of old age: bunions, bulges, bifocals, and baldness.' Promoters of youth culture have invented terms like senior citizen and citizen of longer living to identify the old. For them, an old person is not old but biologically challenged; and a dead person is never dead but metabolically challenged. Yet old age refuses to reverse its course. Saying that 'old age is gracious,' or 'it is the greatest time to be old,' or 'old age is the best time of life—the golden years' does not make old age
different.
articlesource:living.oneindia.in
Gary Merritt Quote
One day the young person writing this article will be old as well. So the burden of taking care of the eldery is a part of everyones own life. We pay for our old age burden on others by taking care of the old when we are young. This is life. We all get old.
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