Making old age less painful
With dementia on the rise among senior citizens, Paradise Park is holding an event to provide recommendations on how to prevent and decelerate its occurrence, at its Royal Park Plaza, from tomorrow to Sunday, 10.30am-7pm.
Paradise Park For The Elderly Living Quality Life will play host to several medical doctors who will educate visitors on various diseases of great concern to the elderly.
A highlight will be a lecture on “Troubling Signs Of Dementia Syndrome”, conducted by Prof Solaphat Hermaranroj, assistant dean of Innovation Education and Information Technology at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine. It will take place tomorrow, 4.30pm-5.30pm.
There will be public discussions on many topics, such as activities conducive to brain development, chair exercises for seniors, how to avoid disease, laughter therapy, alternative medical treatments for the elderly, and music and the brain.
Many activities relating to health, nutrition and recreation will be arranged to help provide for the physical and emotional well-being for the elderly. They will be conducted by volunteers from Baan Suthavas Chalermprokiet. Seniors are also invited to join the senior fitness test to make a self-evaluation with regard to their future daily life undertakings.
Complimentary medical checks-up will be available from the Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Hospital and Huachiew Chalermprakiet University’s Faculty of Chinese Medicine, while Banphaew Hospital (Public Organization) will present optical testing.