Conclusion
It
is clear that informal care is far important than formal care in the area of
geriatric care chiefly in countries where family care has been the norm, and as
no government can provide for the demands of a fast aging population.
Approach
to elderly care should be based on the vision of reinforcing family and
community based care in a locally driven process appropriately harnessing
locally available resources and knowledge.
One of the rich resources that the
country possesses is the strength of its traditional knowledge systems and the
abundant natural resources in the form of medicinal plants and nutritional
resources.
The traditional systems have different and unique approaches to
healthcare.
Methods like rasayana
which are means to revitalize ailing and aging bodies have not been adequately
studied and thus needs due research consideration.
As Patwardhan (2012) notes,
going by the recent statement of the World Health Organization, integration
such a holistic health care approach is definitely likely to yield ‘not just
years to life but life to years’.
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