Involvement of Dept of Pharmacy
Practice in WORLD ELDERS DAY organized by IMA- OCTOBER, 1 2013
The
IMA National Committee for care of elderly in collaboration with Al shifa
Hospital organized a weeklong national level commemoration on world elders day
2013 during the days from 25th September to October 1st
2013. The programme was hosted by IMA Perinthalmanna branch. The programme
mainly focused on the aspect that elderly people always require emotional
attention from their families or children as they are very vulnerable to
physical as well as psychological imbalances. The “new generation” sense of
relationships provides least botheration towards the older adults and their
psychological bond towards society, family and children. The week long
ceremonies included awareness classes, seminars on disease management and care
for elderly, procession through the town with active participation of social
workers and health care providers for creating social awareness on elderly
people’s needs and necessities. A quiz programme was also conducted for the
students of various teaching hospitals. Dr. VU Seethi, National chairman,
committee for care of elderly, Dr. KA Seethi, organizing chairman, Dr. Samuel
Koshy programme convener and Dr.Abeer, Al Shifa Hospital were the pioneers in
making the programme a grand success. The quiz competition was mastered by
Dr.Mohanakrishnan, MIMS hospital Kottakal, and Dr. Girish Raj was the convener
of the competition. One of the ongoing
projects in the department of pharmacy practice under geriatric pharmacy which
is entitled –‘Evaluation of potentially inappropriate medication using Beer’s
criteria and guideline preparation for drug use in geriatrics’ was well
benefited from the disease management classes by consultant physicians. The IMA
division must be praised for their painstaking effort of organizing such a
noble venture as care for elderly has now become an alarming aspect seeking
social attention.
Danisha, Second M Pharm.
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