Session 1: Geriatrics and Gerontological Studies &...

Chairman: Sri Prasanta Kumar Sur – President, Netaji Nagar Group of Colleges Inaugurator:  Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder Guest-in-Chief:  Prof. Asis Kumar Banerjee – Vice-Chancellor Calcutta University Speakers Sri Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Mayor of Kolkata Smt. Amala Sankar Smt. Girija Devi Sri. Buddhadev Dasgupta Sri. Dilip Roy Sri. Sailen Manna Sri. Panthu Nag Sri. Ramen Roy Chowdhury Sri. Dhiman...

Session 2: Gerontological Course in India

Gerontological Course in West Bengal within 2010: The Demand of the 21st Century   Dr. Dilip Kumar Chakroborty Convenor, Organizing Committee & Teacher-in-Charge, Netaji Nagar Day College     Gerontology Aging is a multidisciplinary field of study. This means that the study of aging combines or integrates introduction from several seperate areas, along with content from many other areas of...

Session 3: Empirical Study

Chairman Dr. D. G. Mukherjee, Director Institute of Psychiatry, SSKM Hospital On exploring ‘aging’ vis a vis ‘spirituality’ : a critique Dilip Kumar Sinha Ex-Vice Chancellor, Viswa Bharati University Ours is a period, whatever be the domain of contemporaneity, that keeps on witnessing sorts of intergenerational divide in a variety of ways. It appears to be naive to rake up issues on economic benefits...

Session 4: old age Disease

Chairman: Dr. B. C. Mahanti, Neurosurgeon Title: Some Observed phenomena of old age Disease Parkinsonism and Alzheimerism Author:  Pabitra SenGupta, Formerly Reader, Department of Economics Jogomaya Devi College, Kolkata Abstract:  Old people are often forgotten of their contribution to the family and society. To redress their sufferings due to two killer diseases, namely, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s with no definite...

Session 5: Combating Loneliness and Depression in ...

Debomita Sikdar, Lecturer, Department of Home Science, Calcutta University Abstract In the present study an effort has been made to find out the different factors responsible for high level of loneliness and depression among the institutionalized aged. This is to find out strategies for combating loneliness and depression among elderly. The sample consisted of 100 elderly persons between the age group of 60 to 90 years both...

Session 6: Parenting the Old

Chairman Sri Sailen Sarkar Hon’ble Ministers-In-Charge Department of Parliamentary Affairs and Environment Government of West Bengal Speech of Shri Sailen Sarkar, Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge, Department of Parliamentary Affairs & Environment, Government of West Bengal in the two day State Level Second Conference on “Geriatrics and Interdisciplinary Gerontological studies in West Bengal” on the 13 th and...