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Publisher’s Note

All dressed up and nowhere to go?

The Seniors Today team spoke to over 100 seniors that asking questions about work and health was
on how they spend their day. Forty per cent of the a powerful way to bring the family closer, increase
group said that they take a morning walk and chit- understanding and create lasting memories. About
chat with friends. A majority of these were men, 20 per cent of the group lived alone and gave the
the women preferred to walk in the evenings. This Seniors Today research team ideas on what they
morning walk was also a group activity. As many would like to do and voilà, we have a list of 30 ideas
as 30 per cent of the group said they would engage that could be good fun and sufficiently engrossing.
in yoga and meditation. One of the aspects that emerged from the survey
As high as 70 per cent of the group said they lived was that a large number of the men were ready to
with their children and the woman of the house work and there were not enough job opportunities
was involved in cooking and chores of the day, and they didn’t know how to find work suited
getting grandkids ready for school. This group to their status. Yet another discovery was that a
was also most stressed about relationships within fair number of senior couples had hardly any real
the joint family, but learnt to cope with each other. communication between them. They didn’t know
Economic necessities kept them together. By and what to do with each other. Besides cooking and
large, they were happy to be caretakers of their eating or even watching a movie, there was no
grandchildren. A few of them were concerned meaningful conversation or activity. Our research
about not having a meaningful relationship with team has worked on how to keep the family
their children. together and foster a deeper connection.
Everybody seems so busy and it was only This is in the next issue. Till then, enjoy yourself.
during Covid that the realisation hit them
that they were the closest and most important
people in each other’s life and yet they did not
know what’s beneath the surface. Dinner-time
conversation was about politics, movies and other Vickram Sethi
inconsequential stuff. Less than 5 per cent said Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

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