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Seniors' Recreation Centers in Rural India: Need of the Hour

AIM: To empower and bring the underprivileged senior citizens in the rural areas to the mainstream of life through setting up of model “senior citizens' recreation centers” that can be replicated in the other parts of the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Six senior citizens' recreation cent...

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Autores principales: Paul, Sherin Susan, Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa, Kumar, Rakesh, Ashirvatham, Mathew, John, Kamala Russel, Isaac, Rita
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27385876
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.183585
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author Paul, Sherin Susan
Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa
Kumar, Rakesh
Ashirvatham, Mathew
John, Kamala Russel
Isaac, Rita
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Kumar, Rakesh
Ashirvatham, Mathew
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Isaac, Rita
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description AIM: To empower and bring the underprivileged senior citizens in the rural areas to the mainstream of life through setting up of model “senior citizens' recreation centers” that can be replicated in the other parts of the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Six senior citizens' recreation centers are run in six villages under a community health program of a leading Medical College in South India, which were started by looking into their perceived needs and in a location where organized self-help women groups (SHGs) showed willingness to take the role of caretakers. Together there are 140 members in 6 centers and the most deserving members were identified using a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) method. These centers are open for 5 days a week and the main attraction of the center has been provision of one good, wholesome, noon-meal a day, apart from several recreational activities. The members were also assessed for chronic energy deficiency (CED) and quality of life at the beginning of enrolment using body mass index (BMI) and WHO-BREF scale. RESULTS: The attendance to these centers was nearly 90% of the enrolled beneficiaries. A statistically significant improvement was noticed in quality of life in the physical, psychological, social, and environmental domain (P < 0.05). There was also a significant increase in the average BMI after 1 year of the intervention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Care of underprivileged senior citizens is a growing need in the rural areas and the “Recreation centers” proved to be a beneficial model that can be easily replicated.
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spelling pubmed-49199362016-07-07 Seniors' Recreation Centers in Rural India: Need of the Hour Paul, Sherin Susan Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa Kumar, Rakesh Ashirvatham, Mathew John, Kamala Russel Isaac, Rita Indian J Community Med Original Article AIM: To empower and bring the underprivileged senior citizens in the rural areas to the mainstream of life through setting up of model “senior citizens' recreation centers” that can be replicated in the other parts of the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Six senior citizens' recreation centers are run in six villages under a community health program of a leading Medical College in South India, which were started by looking into their perceived needs and in a location where organized self-help women groups (SHGs) showed willingness to take the role of caretakers. Together there are 140 members in 6 centers and the most deserving members were identified using a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) method. These centers are open for 5 days a week and the main attraction of the center has been provision of one good, wholesome, noon-meal a day, apart from several recreational activities. The members were also assessed for chronic energy deficiency (CED) and quality of life at the beginning of enrolment using body mass index (BMI) and WHO-BREF scale. RESULTS: The attendance to these centers was nearly 90% of the enrolled beneficiaries. A statistically significant improvement was noticed in quality of life in the physical, psychological, social, and environmental domain (P < 0.05). There was also a significant increase in the average BMI after 1 year of the intervention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Care of underprivileged senior citizens is a growing need in the rural areas and the “Recreation centers” proved to be a beneficial model that can be easily replicated. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4919936/ /pubmed/27385876 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.183585 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Paul, Sherin Susan
Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa
Kumar, Rakesh
Ashirvatham, Mathew
John, Kamala Russel
Isaac, Rita
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title_short Seniors' Recreation Centers in Rural India: Need of the Hour
title_sort seniors' recreation centers in rural india: need of the hour
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27385876
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.183585
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