Session on Tai Chi for Senior Citizens - Mumbai

Silver Innings Active Ageing Center in association with Harmony for Silvers Foundation has pleasure to invite Senior Citizens who are 50yrs + for Session on Tai Chi.

Tai chi, pronounced "tie chee," is a gentle exercise program that is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Derived from the martial arts, tai chi is composed of slow, deliberate movements, meditation, and deep breathing, which enhance physical health and emotional well-being.

Facilitator: Mr. Carlton Hill on behalf of Harmony for Silvers Foundation

Date: Wednesday, 7th July 2010

Time: 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Venue:Cosmopolitan School, Ground Floor, Near Ganesh Mandir, Sheetal Nagar, Mira Road. Near Mumbai


Contact:
Tel: 9987104233; Email: silverinnings@gmail.com

This programme is organized by Silver Inning Foundation with support from Cosmopolitan School

Man Arrested for Failing to Take Care of Elderly Father- So all childrens better take care of your parents

In the first case in the city under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, police have arrested a 57-year-old man for failing to take care of his 83-year-old father. He was booked under Section 24 of the Act.

Police arrested Kumar, a resident of Pattalam, based on the complaint of his father Muthukrishnan on Wednesday. Police said Muthukrishnan had approached the local police station earlier to seek legal action against his son who was neglecting him. “We summoned Kumar and he entered into a compromise with his father in front of Ayanavaram police inspector Ramesh, three months ago. As per the deal, Kumar promised to give Rs 200 to his father every month. However, he failed to adhere to his words, instead he harassed his father. Later, Muthukrishnan lodged another complaint and based on it, police arrested Kumar. He was remanded in judicial custody after being produced before a magistrate’s court,” a police officer said. According to the law, neglect, exposure and abandonment of senior citizens is punishable with imprisonment up to three months or a fine up to Rs 5,000 or both.

Muthukrishnan is a vegetable vendor and has three sons Kumar, 57, Sekar, 53, and Kamalakannan, 48, apart from a daughter Padmini, 45. All of them are married. Muthukrishnan has had to depend on his children following the death of his wife five years ago. Though Sekar and Kamalakannan supported their father, Kumar did not help out at all. He works in a printing press and lives with his family in the adjacent locality.

Additional commissioner of police (law and order) Mohammad Shakeel Akther said, “Many elderly people don’t know about the new Act. Any harassment of senior citizens will be dealt with severely, according to law.”

Caring For The Old
The elderly unable to support themselves are entitled to maintenance

* According to the law, neglect, exposure and abandonment of senior citizens is punishable with imprisonment of up to three months or a fine of up to Rs 5,000 or both
* Maintenance of senior citizens includes provision of food, clothing, residence and medical treatment to them


Source: Man Arrested for Failing to Take Care of Elderly Father

‘How to be safe and smart with your money’- Moneylife Foundation workshop

Moneylife Foundation invites you to a Workshop on Finance titled ‘How to be safe and smart with your money’ .

Senior Citzens can attend this workshop .


On Tuesday, 29 June 2010


Admission: FREE

The programme will be conducted by Sucheta Dalal, consulting editor, Moneylife
and Debashis Basu, editor, Moneylife.


Programme details:
Working session by Ms Dalal on ‘How to be safe with your money’
Tea Break
Working session by Mr Basu on ‘How to be smart with your money’
Q&A

Venue: 305, 3rd floor, Hind Service Industries Premises,
Off Veer Savarkar Marg, Shivaji Park, Dadar, Mumbai 400028
Landmark: Chaithyabhoomi lane

Time: 2.30pm to 5.30pm

Registration is on a first—come—first—served basis!!
Hurry up. Limited seats!

Look forward to meeting you on 29 June.
RSVP: Dione/Pritika 2444 1058
mail@mlfoundation.in

Senior citizens age 81 yrs suffering from Dementia ,waiting for the hangman since 1996

Piara Singh (80) can neither walk nor see. His dementia, too, is getting worse by the day. And the world has forgotten about him.

In what must rank as one of India’s most callous instances of treating prisoners, Piara, a murder convict with capital punishment hanging over his head, has been languishing in Amritsar jail since 1991, mostly in solitary confinement, with neither death nor mercy rescuing him. Although his mercy petition is pending with the President since 1997, nothing by way of either relief or upholding of the sentence has come from Rashtrapati Bhavan.

To his lawyer Navkiran Singh, who meets the condemned man once in a while, Piara whispers that he can’t take it anymore. ‘‘I should have been hanged the day they said I should be killed,’’ he mumbles. It was nearly two decades ago that Piara Singh, then about 60, stepped inside Amritsar jail after being arrested in a murder case, a crime his three sons were also subsequently charged with. The death sentence was handed to him five years later in 1996, triggering his removal to solitary confinement in a 12X6 cell. He has been there since.

Residents of Amritsar’s Baserke village, Piara and his sons were found guilty of firing at a gathering to celebrate a marriage in November, 1991. It was an old enmity and by the time the violence ebbed, 17 people died. ‘‘I was moved by his plight when I accidentally stumbled upon him at Amritsar jail where I went to collect data on death row inmates in 2006,’’ said Navkiran Singh. ‘‘I decided I would fight for him. But now Piara just prays for death. It is horrifying.’’

While his initial mercy petition is gathering dust in Delhi, closer home, a PIL was filed in the Punjab and Haryana HC in August 2006, pleading that it is inhuman to keep convicts in solitary confinement. It also pleaded that Piara’s death sentence be commuted to a life term.

Gearing up for August 19, the PIL’s next date of hearing, Navkiran said, ‘‘Life term, in the eyes of the law, is interpreted to be of 20 years and in a normal murder case, after adding remission, it comes down to nine. Piara has suffered a lot. At least he should spend the last days of his life in his house.’’

But with neither the hangman nor the courts reavhing out, disease is slowly consuming the frail man. A medical report in January says, ‘‘Piara has osteoarthritis in both knee joints and acid peptic disease. As a result of prolonged incarceration, he has symptoms of mild psychotic disorder which at times results in him hallucinating.’’


No End In Sight?

November 1991: Piara arrested for murder, sent to Amritsar jail
January 1996: Gets death sentence along with son Sarabjit
Feb 2001: Piara’s other sons, Gurdev and Satnam, too get death verdict
March 1997: Files mercy petition with President of India
August 2006: PIL in Punjab & Haryana HC requesting conversion of death sentence to life imprisonment
1950-1980: Between 3,000 to 4,000 executions took place in the country
1980-1997: Two to three convicts were hanged per year
1997-2004: De facto moratorium on executions
August 2004: One execution for rape and murder
After 2004: No execution, but capital punishment is being handed down

Published in Times of India 12 August 2009
Supriya Bhardwaj

Source: http://abolishdeathpenaltyindia.blogspot.com/2009/08/hes-waiting-for-hangman-since-1996.html

CAN SOMEONE UPDATE US ON THIS ISSUE,WE NEED TO BRING JUSTICE TO 82yrs Elderly suffering from Dementia.

Is this our India , is this way we respect our Elders, Raise your Voice

Where are Human Right Activist

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Senior Citizen age 75yrs hanged to a tree to get confession by Rajasthan cops : Elder abuse by Law protector

In a shocking incident reminiscent of medieval times, Rajasthan police brutally tortured an old man for theft by hanging him from a tree and thrashing him in the premises of a police station in Rajasthan's Dholpur district. The senior citizen, identified only as Jaydev, is in a state of shock after the treatment meted out to him on Thursday10th June 2010.The 75-year-old's wife claims she was threatened with the same torture when she cried for help.The barbaric interrogation is Shame to the nation.

Three police officials from the Saipau police station were suspended on Friday, and an inquiry has been ordered into the suspect's torture. Jaydev, a resident of Bhakara village in Dausa district, was arrested after the police suspected him of being part of a gang that had stolen motor parts from a shop in Saipau town, 300 km east of Jaipur, in March.

"The police tracked records of a mobile phone that was stolen, and traced it to Jaydev," said Dholpur Superintendent of Police of Surendra Kumar. Jaydev was taken to the Saipau police station.

A rope was tied around him and he was hanged from a neem tree. Calling it a case of human rights violation, the state's director general of police has asked the SP to suspend Station House Officer Rajendra Kavia, Assistant Sub-Inspector Jhaman Lal and constable Gajan Singh.

Calling it a case of human rights violation, the state’s director general of police has asked the SP to suspend Station House Officer Rajendra Kavia, Assistant Sub-Inspector Jhaman Lal and constable Gajan Singh.

“There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour. We will record his (Jaydev’s) statement after he recovers from the shock,” said Kumar. “He claims he is not active in the gang, and his children might have stolen the mobile and given it to him,” he said.


Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Rajasthan-cops-hang-75-yr-old-to-get-confession/Article1-556435.aspx

http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20100612/1053/tnl-rajasthan-cops-hang-75-yr-old-to-get_1.html

http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_player.php?id=146526&from=homePageWatch


Its shame to nation which respect elderly and boast of its culture and tradition.The news is shocking and it happen when the World was preparing for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on 15th June.

Hanging an Senior Citizens with tree to extract confession is total violation of Human Right ,its inhumane, cruel and it also violate the citizen's rights under the Constitution of India. It is surprising and sad to see (MOSJE) Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment ,National Human Right Commission and Human Right activist silent on the issue.Note the MOSJE is the so caled nodal Ministry for the Senior Citizens in the country.

Wake up Senior Citizens , Jago Senior Citizens and RAISE YOUR VOICE against this cruel incident of Elder Abuse by Governess agency ,the protect themselves.

Silver inning Foundation demand an inquiry by National Commission of Human Right and to immediate dismiss the said officer and SP and also demand UN department of Aging ,INPEA to ask Indian government to protect Elderly and give show cause notice - why it has not implemented Madrid plan of aging and International convention which country is signatory.

Senior Citizens its high time ,lets join hand and participate in ' National Protest Day' for Elder Right on 16th August 2010.

People for Social Cause Blog: Senior Citizen age 75yrs hanged to a tree to get confession by Rajasthan cops : Elder abuse by Law protector

WE CAN END POVERTY: 2015 MILLENIUM DEVLOEMENT GOALS (MDG)

… ONLY WHEN WE BEGIN TO ADDRESS POVERTY AMONG OLDER PERSONS.

“Poverty among older persons remains high in too many societies, and the integration of aging into national development plans and targeted strategies for reaching the MDGs should result in important advances in improving the situation of poor and vulnerable older persons.”
‐‐‐ United Nations Under‐Secretary‐General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyotaka Akasaka; 1 June 2009


MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS & OLDER PERSONS


• Older persons will outnumber children for the first time in history by 2040. The world is ageing at a rate that is unprecedented, without parallel in human history.As populations age, the number of older people living in poverty will increase.

• While the Millennium Development Goals have specific targets on children and youth, they are silent on issues of age, disability, and ethnicity.

• If the MDGs are to deliver fair and equitable development that reaches the poorest, we can no longer ignore the unprecedented demographic change that is presently taking place. If older people are not included in poverty reduction strategies, the world is not only failing in its obligations to older people themselves, but is compounding the risk that hunger and poverty will continue to be transmitted from one generation to the next, locking the poorest people in a vicious cycle of chronic poverty and insecurity.


Silver Inning Foundation supports the fight to include issue of older adults and disability in MDG.We demand policy of inclusive and ask UN to STOP discrimination against aged , STOP Ageism.

Let us all Senior Citizens, NGO's, IFA ,INPEA ,Helpage International ,AARP ,Alzheimer's Society , Organization's working for elderly, Globally join hands to bring justice to our Elderly.


INCLUDE AGE in MDG.

My Wolrd , Your World , Our World Free of Elder Abuse.