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that push the elders towards private sector services. So, it is urgent for the government to take initiative about it.
• Policy makers should examine different elderly friendly policies that might make the family members more capable of caring their elderly, such as, educational and training of programs for caregiver.
• Those who are young generation today will be elderly in future. They should save money and form association and organization with a view to helping the elderly who are helpless and destitute so that the culture of helping and respecting the senior citizens is nourished and exercised among the next generation.
• There are some assistive technologies that show great promise in helping elders with functional limitations to stay less dependent on the careers and remain active, such as, mobile phone, computer and internet facilities. If the government establish club and provide television, newspapers, computer, internet facilities and instruments for various games just for the senior citizens, the elderly will be benefitted from that. Trainers should me employed. It may be hypothetical for the first time.
• The household security should be ensured among the elderly because they need socio-calm environment for their mental refreshment. If they are not secured in their homes, it is not possible to ensure their enjoyable role and status in the family.
• Government should start a program for rewarding the family who care the elderly most and punishing those who are careless to the elderly. With these results, the people of the country will be motivated for caring the elderly.
• Mass media refers to the communication including written, broadcast, spoken that reaches to a large audience. This includes television, radio, advertising, movies, internet, newspaper, magazines etc. It is a significant force in modern culture which is referred to by sociologists as medicated culture. They can telecast and publish programs that help the elderly to play active role in prestigious level and enjoy satisfactory status. It can uphold the image of the elderly through developing an ethical and human attitude towards the elderly.
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They can also undertake various programs for benefiting the elderly. They may also undertake various awareness arising programs in favor of the elderly so that the people of the society can be aware.
• The Imam (leader) of mosque can make the community people aware of serving the elderly and giving importance to them in the light of Islamic point of view because people in our country are religious minded. They, at least, go to mosque every Friday.
• The family members should consult the elderly in respect to all matters. If the elderly disagree with the family members, they should try to make the elderly understand that issue tactfully. With this result, the elderly may feel that they have active role and satisfactory status in the family.
• Elderly people are to be declared as the senior citizens to the county and be provided with the economic security, strengthened national committee on aging, ensured elderly issues in national education system, established elderly club, ensured elderly rights to property and promoted media campaign, public awareness and aging research.
• It is necessary to develop more income generation projects for the elderly in rural areas of Bangladesh so that the elderly can be self sufficient and economically active. If they are able to do this, it will be easy for them to play role and enjoy status in the family and society successfully.
• The government should reintroduce the primary health care for the elderly population. This is because in rural society maximum elderly are poor. So, it is needed to give them free health care service so that they can be active and free from physical dependency.
• Informal care giving should be enhanced. In this regard, care giving and interaction system should be increased. Family members should care them willingly and education, information and counseling is needed to enable families to make decision with the elderly on care giving system.
• Formal recreation centre for the elderly should be established. It can be arranged through institutionalized system so that the elderly can spend their leisure with personal satisfaction.
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• Religion is a part of our culture. It helps to increase social solidarity, upholds the norms and values and helps to control the society if it is practiced exactly by the members of the society. So, religious practice can help the members of the family increase social status and play satisfied role in the family and community. So, the people of every religion should abide by their religious code of conduct about the elderly.
• For the measures of the aging problem, the non-government organization should take some volunteer programs for the destitute, low or no income, displaced or disabled elderly group. They should take necessary programs for improving the quality of life, income generating steps; create recreation centre, motivational and consciousness program. Though they have some programs such as Bangladesh Association for the Aged and Institute of Geriatric Medicine (BAAIAM), Probin Hitaishi Sangha (PHS) etc. for the elderly, this is not enough and all the elderly do not access to this.
• The younger generation should change their attitude to the elderly and engage them in social interaction so that they feel active members of the society. In this respect the younger generation should fix time for the elderly everyday for making the life of our senior citizens pleasant.
• To help the elderly in enjoying role and status in the family, the women can play better role than men because in rural society, women especially son’s wives spend maximum time in family. So, their proper care, interaction, relationship with the elderly help to enjoy better role and status, no doubt. In this respect the government put fund into programs and services which allow families to take better care for the elderly. For this the government should fix a handsome fund for the family.
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