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Vaishnavi Gupta Jan 27 2021 - 3 min readNearly 57 million people in India are victims of depression and another 38 million suffer from anxiety disorders, as per a report by the WHO. This number has increased manifold due to the unprecedented pandemic, affecting people of all age groups, especially senior citizens, whose mental health took a drastic hit in the last few ...
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Nibedita Mohanta Jan 17 2019 - 3 min readChandigarh is known as the city of retired folks. Maximum retired population especially from army background can be found in Chandigarh, for the amazing weather, properly planned, clean and maintained a city with good medical facilities. According to the census data, out of Chandigarh's total population, the city percent percent young people in the age ...
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Agencies Sep 29 2017 - 1 min readFocused on providing quality medical care to the ageing, the Union Health Ministry is planning to set up two highly specialised 'National Centre for Ageing' at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and at Madras Medical College in Chennai. Targeting to fulfill the needs of elderly population of India, 12 ...