Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Savita Chahal ¹, Anuradha ¹, Deepika Govil ¹, Deepak Kumar ², Nikhil Govil ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Medicine Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Family caregivers of people with dementia, often called the second doctors, are critical to the quality of life of the care recipients. The support of the caregivers is intrinsic to good dementia care; therefore their role needs to be acknowledged in maintaining individuals with dementia in community.Good and appropriate communication skills, helping them maintain independence and autonomy, providing safe environment, simplification of tasks, structuring of daily routine, and provision of adequate nutrition, engaging them in physical and cognitive exercises are some of the simple but valuable things which caregivers can do for dementia patients. At the same time they experience high rates of burden and psychological morbidity as well as social isolation, physical ill-health, and financial hardship which needs to identified and managed timely.

Keywords

Family Caregivers, Alzheimers dementia, Safety, Communication, Autonomy, Burden

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Deepak Kumar ¹, Krishan Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Ch. Devi Lal University, Sirsa, IN

Abstract

Stress is a common problem that affects almost all of us at some point in our lives. Learning to identify when you are under stress, what is stressing you, and different ways of coping with stress can greatly improve both your mental and physical well being. This paper will define stress; it will discuss fight flight response, its stages, psychological and biochemical changes and factors which influence fight flight response. This paper is going to discuss about the sign and symptoms of stress, types of stress, indicators of stress at work, causes of stress and why it is important to reduce stress, techniques used to manage stress. This paper will throw light on student stress, sources of student stress, and how student stress can be avoided and coped.

Keywords

Stress, Management.

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