Agewell Foundation

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 17/01/2009 Key Speakers Mr. Gautam Bhardwaj, Director, Invest India Economic Foundation Dr. Shashank Saksena, Director, Deptt. Of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India Mr. Prabhakar Sinha, Times of India Global Recession - a concern for the Aged in India, Agwell’s Perspective Global economic crisis has slowly started shaking up the Indian Economy too. There are differences of opinion with respect to the magnitude of its effects in terms of percentage, but there is no denying the fact that the infection has started spreading gradually into the financial and economic health of the Nation which is reflecting upon the living of the young but also on the working & savings of the retired and the old persons who had taken their investments into the new found financial offers in the growing economy over the last few years. Persons of age sixty and o...

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi CONDUCTED ON 22/11/2008 Key Speakers Dr. Anup Kohli of Apollo Hospitals

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi CONDUCTED ON 28/09/2008 Key Speakers Maj. Gen. Surat Sandhu (Retd.) Wg. Cdr. Praful Bakshi (Retd.) “The Needs & Rights of Retired Service Personnel” ( 28 th September 2008 , India Habitat Centre) The society today is going through a process of change. With ever-increasing number of older persons, all equations are changing. Larger percentage of older persons on macro level and longer age cycle on micro level pose challenges to individuals and society both. Agewell Foundation is an NGO dedicated towards the welfare of Older Persons across the country. In its latest endeavor to further the cause and motivate public opinion about needs & rights of older persons, Agewell has undertaken to hold a Series of symposiums on Social, Medical, Legal, Financial & Emotional needs & rights of Older Persons. As eleventh symposium in the series “The Needs & Rights of Retired S...

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi CONDUCTED ON 20/08/2008 Key Speakers Dr. Anup Kohli of Apollo Hospitals New Delhi , 20 th August 2008 : Agewell Foundation, an NGO dedicated towards the welfare of Older Persons across the country, today announced the tenth in the series of symposiums titled ‘ The Needs & Rights of Older Persons ’. This Symposium will take place on 20th August 2008 at Gulmohar Hall , India Habitat Center , Lodi Road , New Delhi . The discussion in the symposium will cover the special medical needs & problems faced by the elderly members of our society. This symposium is dedicated to those elderly who are suffering from Dementia. Dementia is the loss of mental abilities and most commonly occurs late in life. Of all persons over age 65, 5-8% are demented. This percentage increases considerably with age. The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, accounts for 50-75% of all cases of dementi...

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi CONDUCTED ON 05/07/08 Key Speakers Pro. Pushpesh Pant, professor of international relations at Jawaharlal Nehru Universit “The Needs & Rights of Older Persons” ( 5th July 2008, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi) Agewell Foundation is an NGO dedicated towards the welfare of Older Persons across the country. In its latest endeavor to further the cause and motivate public opinion about needs & rights of older persons, Agewell has undertaken to hold a Series of symposiums on various needs & rights of Older Persons. As ninth symposium in the series “The Needs & Rights of Older Persons” , it is an open forum which will have discussions and debates addressing the problems and difficulties being faced by elder segment of the society. The Symposium will see eminent & scholarly personalities joining Agewell in taking forward the initiative to advocate for the needs & rights of o...

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi CONDUCTED ON 16/05/08 Key Speakers Dr. Anoop Kohli of Apollo Hospital, Dr. Ashwini Chopra of Aashlok HospitaL Dr. Tushar Dhruv of Smarter Heart

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 03/01/2008 Key Speakers Mr. Shiv Khera, Renowned Author, Educator & Motivator

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 24/08/2007 Key Speakers Mr. Murad Ali Baig, Social commentator Mr. S Sen, President, Confederation of Indian Industry Mr. G B Panda, Advisor, Planning Commission

SYMPOSIUM ON EMOTIONAL NEEDS & RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 11/05/2007 Key Speakers § Dr. Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, Member, Planning Commission § Dr. Rajesh Sagar, Associate Professor, AIIMS

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 03/11/2006 Key Speakers § Mr. Anand Bordia, former Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India § Mr. G B Panda, Advisor, Planning Commission § Mr. P N Murthy, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India § Mr. Prithvi Haldea, CMD, Prime Database

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Conducted on 08/09/2006 Key Speakers Mr. P N Murthy, IAS. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Mr. Joginder Singh, former Chief of CBI, Mr. Dipankar Gupta, former Solicitor General of India  Justice Ranganath Misra, Retd. Chief Justice Supreme Court