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Sunday, March 4, 2007

The Indian Governement Initiative, NISD implementing geriatric and gerontological care.

National Institute of Social Defence (NISD), is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India.

The Institute is dedicated to developing and facilitating comprehensive, effective and specialized interventions in the area of Social Defence.

NISD functions as an advisory body for Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India and Resource and Training Centre of Excellence in the field of Social Defence.

The Institute’s areas of concern are Juvenile Justice, Child Protection, Old Age Care, Drug Abuse Prevention and related sectors.

In order to cope up with the problems faced by the Aged, it is necessary that the care givers be made aware of the physical and mental conditions and problems of the elderly people so as to meet their needs as far as possible in the home setting.

Under this initiative, the NISD runs a series of Programmes/Certificate Courses to educate and train persons who can provide care to older persons in the family and community settings. The Institute is also carrying out orientation programmes in several regions of the country to generate awareness among senior citizens on the welfare facilities/programmes available for them and also sensitize government and non-government functionaries on special needs of the elderly.

Target Audience
Under this Project, the Institute runs a series of Programmes/Certificate courses to educate and train persons who can provide care to older persons in the family and community settings. The Institute is also carrying out orientation programmes in several regions of the country to generate awareness among Senior Citizens on the welfare facilities/programmes available for them.

Aims & Objectives :
The main aim of conceptualizing the course under Government of India's project-'NICE' is to develop a cadre of frontline personnel of Geriatric Care Givers (Geriatric Animators) and to generate skilled manpower focused on intervention in the family & community settings. The younger generations and others concerned with the welfare of older persons are to be encouraged to attend to the needs of the older persons. The objectives of the Programme are:
To develop a cadre of professionals for the care & welfare of older persons
To provide a comprehensive and scientific knowledge base on various aspects relating to the Geriatric care
To develop aptitude and skills for working with older persons
To orient the students on various techniques/ interventions of understanding and working for the welfare of the elderly with focus on programme development and management

It also aims to develop a cadre of frontline personnel of Geriatric Care Givers (Geriatric Animators) and to generate skilled manpower focused on intervention in the family & community settings. The younger generations and others concerned with the welfare of older persons are to be encouraged to attend to the needs of the older persons.

3 comments:

gautam said...

Fortunately Govt. taking inititiative to welfare for the Elderly through NICE but the geriatric cadres of Indian Government are searching job for welfare of Elderly, Government will noot take the responsibility to care and protect Geriatric animators who trained by NISD in different centrers of the Country. They are ignoring the future of the Care givers who are unemployed. Government should take the responsiblity under National Service Act,1972. to employ their trainees to save their social security. Gautam Chawdhry. PGD NISD,Delhi.03 Cadre Batch.

sourav bera said...

UNFORTUNATELY GOVERNMENT ARE NOT TAKING ANY INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE JOB TO PASS OUT GERIATRIC CADER.I ALSO PASSED IN 2010 FROM KOLKATA CENTER STILL UNABLE TO FIND ANY JOB EVEN WHEN I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL LOKING FOR JHOB THEY REFUGE ME TALLING WHAT IS THIS GERONTOLOGY. EVEN STILL WE DO NOT GET OUR CERTIFICATE FROM NISD. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? "NEW COURSE STRTED BUT WE STILL IN DARK". WHAT WILL BE NOW FOR WE??????????? GIVE ANSWER. THIS IS MY EMAIL ID;;; badsabera@gmail.com.

looking for quick reply.

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