All our life, the human cycle runs from childhood to adulthood trying to achieve one goal after the other, weaving a complex and exciting labyrinth of relations, emotions, and feelings. We all run away from old age, due to the fear of problems associated with aging. Old age is inevitable but can be made easier. As we start approaching old age, the demons and fears start growing and to give them company, the physical body throws in pains and diseases. There is so much transition going on in an old person’s body, from physical to emotional, it becomes challenging to accept and manage all of this. The stress of it all makes a person older and more irritable, tired and unhappy, leading to further problems in relations and life management. Yet some old people are always happy. They look fit, some even run marathons, some can be seen socializing regularly, and some continue to travel despite their age. Do these people have some secret pill or formula? Or maybe they are just lying about their age. What is it that makes these older people happier and healthier? It’s a simple formula. They are prepared. Prepared to welcome their old age. When they are middle age, they realize the value of their body and good health. They have a proactive perspective on life. Radical lifestyle changes in the 40s and 50s lay the path to a healthy and fitter old age. These people are ready to take old age head-on. They know and understand the value of hard work today, which will pay off later. Habits like exercise and meditation become an everyday affair. It helps them keep stress and diseases off-limits. Eating only nutrition-rich food, not giving in to bad habits like smoking & drinking, and having a proper sleep schedule, these combine to give them a strong foundation for their older years. These good habits allow them to become more social and flexible, making them fitter and happier. Having hobbies like reading, gardening, and doing mind activities like puzzles and crosswords, keeps their minds active. Another area of concern is developing and maintaining relationships. Taking away negative emotions and keeping negative people at bay is a good way to keep your mind happier. Valuing family and friendships helps them build strong bonds, which will be their support system in old age. The people are not some rare breed of humans, who have achieved a feat of having a healthy and happy old age. They are amongst your friends. Look around and learn from them. Energy is contagious, and so are smiles.
Tyranny of distance is a phrase often used in media to explain why certain events don't get due coverage, just because they happen far off from the media centers. If you have ever wondered how the events in state capitals get more coverage than the hinterlands, you can perhaps blame it to the tyranny of distance. The phrase came into existence after the book titled “Tyranny of distance” was published in the year 1966. The book is about the history of Australia and talks about how the continents' attitude was shaped differently because of it being located far off from other mainlands.
Tyranny of distance often reflects in our family relationships too. Geographical and physical distance from our family has a bearing on what we become and how we live. The support which family members provide to each other doesn’t get compensated with other things. One of the most far-reaching effects of this tyranny of distance in a family is the impact it can have on the health of our parents who live far away from us. If you live abroad with your parents back in India, how often do you meet your parents? Once or twice a year? Or, maybe once in two years. However good be our frequency of communication with our parents, living far away from them, we often find it difficult to know about their real state of health. We care about them. They know it too. We try our best to fathom, they try their best to conceal. Not because they do not want to tell but because they don’t want us to get worried. Innocent but worrisome, this remains a problem as it concerns health and happiness. Technology has made most of the distance-related problems obsolete. Except, perhaps, this one. We at Swasmos have attempted to address this.
The book "Tyranny of Distance" is currently not available on Amazon. Maybe with increasing connectivity, it is an unrelatable subject. In a time where most of the distance-related problems are disappearing, we believe and hope that the tyranny of distance that affects the elders and families, disappear too.
Through Swasmos offerings, we have attempted to do our bit.
Swasmos offers convenient health management for elderly people who want to live a healthy and easy old age. The Swasmos package offers tracking tools for you to track, monitor, and be close to the health needs of the elders in your family.
Prevention being better than cure is an immensely popular idea but the practice of it is far less prevalent. Many health issues, especially among the elderly, can be avoided if preventive care measures are chosen at the right time. Why do many of us tend to ignore the importance of preventive care? There could be three possible reasons.
Humans are bad in the planning of future events
This explanation stems from the same evolutionary theories which explain many of our other behaviors. For a major portion of human existence, humans have only cared about their basic and not -so far needs. Struggle for food & shelter, saving one’s life from inclement weather, surviving unknown diseases and wild animals, forced humans to worry about their immediate survival. Immediate survival and existence are what humans have grown with, for most of their evolutionary history. The human mind developed over 1000 years is guided by the same “prehistoric” brain. a brain biased against long-term planning.
Grass growing phenomenon
We don’t realize a change taking place until it attains a certain status. For most kinds of changes in our life, this applies. It is like the growth of grass. We don’t see it growing but notice the change when the growth has attained to a certain height. We don’t realize how our parents are growing old if we see them regularly. For the same reasons, we get surprised at the growth of your relative’s kid whom you tend to meet after a long gap.
Availability of services
Let’s accept that while the world is full of motivation resources towards career success, money-making, or even martial success, there are few resources available to motivate you to make an informed decision about your good health. Through Swasmos we are trying to contribute towards building awareness for good health, especially at old age. We believe this awareness is the first step before taking any actionable decisions toward any impending health-related issues.
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However good our interaction and frequency of communication with our parents be, living far away from our parents, we, often, find it difficult to understand their true state of being. Remember the time when your mom was not well and you got to know about that only through your relatives.
We care about our elders. They know it too. We try our best to fathom, they try their best to conceal. Not because they do not want to tell but because they don’t want us to get worried. It’s sweet, but it still remains a problem as it concerns health and happiness. Technology has created most of the distance-related problems obsolete. Except, perhaps, this one. No amount of phone calls or what’s app message that you exchange with your loved ones thousands of miles away solves this problem.
We at Swasmos have attempted to address this problem. Swasmos is a preventive healthcare company for the elderly. We at Swasmos knows that you care about your parents and are concerned about their well being. We at Swasmos offer personalized and interaction-based preventive health care management for the elderly and offer remote health tracking for the family members.
Check what you can do for your parents through Swasmos
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