Second Start

“When we say “old person”, we should not understand a helpless person who needs to be taken care of. Today, the heads of state can also be considered old, who have attracted the attention of the whole world. Putin and Erdogan are over 70, Biden and Trump are over 80,”>>>>>

It is not an easy to clearly distinguish healthy aging from dementia, but well-known world research institutes and specialists are working in this direction today. According to Samson Khachatryan, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Health, Consultant on Neurology of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia,>>>>>

The sewing workshops of “Bari Kari Lab” have been operating in the Nor Nork and Hrazdan day centers of the «Mission Armenia» non-profit organization for about 4 years. In the workshop, which includes only elderly people, about 10 products are sewn: bags, aprons, pens, bathrobes, shirts, bed linen, pillows, towels,>>>>>

The first free charge Memory cafe in Yerevan Since October, the first Memory Cafe has been operating in the center of Yerevan. This is a great way and place for elderly to get together and engage in mental activity that helps keep the cognitive skills and abilities they have. Through>>>>>

Mikhail Aghajanov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Biochemistry of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, who create the Armenian Alzheimer’s Association 20 years ago, predicts that Alzheimer’s disease would soon become a big challenge for our country as well as for the whole world.>>>>>

According to Sianna Movsisyan, a clinical psychologist, psychologist at Expert Technologies, the actual retirement of 65-year-old people is not a problem, it all depends on what kind of activity a person carries out after that. The most important thing for older people is to feel healthy and useful. Society and>>>>>

The elderly’s theater group, named “Tarmany”, is preparing a new production this month. The fifth is “The Wise and the Fool” by Hovhannes Tumanyan. The theater group, which has been operating since 2019 at the Nork Old Age Home of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of RA, under>>>>>

This episode of the “Second Start” radio show, launched within the framework of the Alzheimer’s Care Armenia Brain Health project in collaboration with Public Radio of RA, is dedicated to the social protection of the elderly. In this sphere, the state encourages the employment of persons aged 65 years and>>>>>

Provision of palliative care and services in specialized clinics is a new phenomenon for us. Most people in Armenia prefer to care for a sick relative at home for the rest of their lives. There are two reasons: stereotype and lack of funds. “Palliative medicine, in Armenian we say palliative>>>>>