FAQ

Geriatric means for old people/ senior citizens. Geriatric Counselling is a process where elderly is helped in dealing with their personal and interpersonal conflicts. Counselling denotes a professional relationship between a trained counsellor and an elderly. Relationship is person-to-person, and is designed to help elderly to live active and independent life through meaningful engagement.

Many researchers have proven that better mental health enhances the overall quality of life from different aspects of it. The following are the benefits elders could enjoy by availing the geriatric counselling sessions.
• Better stress and anxiety management
• Promotes overall wellbeing
• Enhances positive approach in life
• Helps in better healing and recovery
• Stabilizes degeneration of brain abilities

• Dementia Care –We provide cognitive /mental stimulation and rehabilitation for elderly suffering from degenerative illnesses like dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc. Our memory clinic division provides customized activities and games for retention as well as enhancement of various brain skills.
• Intellectual and cognitive stimulation for elderly – We encourage engagement in intellectually stimulating activities which help maintain cognitive (Brain) abilities. Our activities include a combination of paper pencil-based exercises as well as computer-based games to promote new learning and mental stimulation.
• Counselling for elderly – We provide counselling support to elderly with age related emotional, physical and psychological changes as in dementia by helping establish a routine and motivating them to remain active with meaningful and engaging activities.
• Counselling and psychoeducation for family members and care attendants – we provide counselling support and education to family members and attendants of elderly about various physical and psychological illnesses of old age. We train them to adopt healthy behavior and communication to take care of elderly in effective manner.

Yes. Our geriatric counsellors visit the elderly at home twice/thrice in a week for couple of hours on the mutually decided days.

Geriatric counsellors are mental health professionals (Psychologists) with special training in geriatric (old age) care.