Re: [indian-society-for-u3a] Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

Thank you Mr. Vyasamoorthy and Mr. Malhotra.

Warm Regards
Apratim Chattopadhyay

On 02-Dec-2016 8:49 pm, "ashok kumar malhotra" <akmalhotra123@rediffmail.com> wrote:

It is heartening to know details of Support Elders.
It is Novel. U3A is about learning anything by seniors,not necessarily education by books.
Regards

A K MALHOTRA

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Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service
 

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: "I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents."

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: "U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby."

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

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The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

"We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year," the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

 

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It is heartening to know details of Support Elders.
It is Novel. U3A is about learning anything by seniors,not necessarily education by books.
Regards

A K MALHOTRA

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Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service
 

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: “I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents.”

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: “U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby.”

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

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The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

“We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year,” the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

 

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Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: "I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents."

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: "U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby."

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

​​

The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

"We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year," the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

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School for old women in Thane

Women Between the Ages of 60 and 90 Are Learning Their ABCs at This School for Grannies

 JUNE 20, 2016  CATEGORY : BE THE CHANGE

A school that is open for only two hours a day, where the uniform is pink sarees and where all students are between the ages of 60 and 90. Welcome to Aajibaichi Shala (Grandmothers’ School).

Set up by Yogendra Bangar and the Motiram Dalal Charitable Trust, the school – located inPhangane, Thane – is perhaps India’s first school for uneducated grandmothers.

“We started this school to inculcate love and respect for the elderly,” Dilip Dalal, the founder of the Trust toldFirstpost.

Yogendra Bangar – whose brain child the school is – says “Everybody in the village encouraged us, no one said a thing against the school. They said: ‘Nobody has done something like this before. Whatever you are doing is good for the society. We are with you.'”

He continues:

“Knowledge has great importance in life. It is very important to educate these elderly people who never got an opportunity to go to school. We started this school to bring happiness to their lives and make the village 100 percent literate.”

Started on International Women’s Day this year, the school – at present – has 28 students.

Says 87-year-old student Ramabai Ganpat Chandelle, “”I am like a ripe fruit that might fall off the branch anytime. I couldn’t go to school as a child and remained illiterate all my life. But I don’t want to die illiterate. Now, I am happy that I would be able to carry a few words with me to the other world.”

“When I come back home, the grandchildren tell me, ‘Granny, this is how you write this,’ or ‘Granny, this is how you read this.’ They teach me everything. They sit and study along with me. It’s great fun. We read each other’s lessons. We read out poems to each other. We write our lessons… We are certainly happy that we became literate at this age,” says another student, Kantabai.

While literacy is the primary goal, the school also has other activities in the pipeline for the women: “We have planned some creative initiatives wherein they will be trained to make hand-woven quilts and paper bags,” said Bangar.

Meet the 50-year-old Chennai professor who holds 145 academic degrees. No kidding : FYI, News - India Today

​When I talk about Lifelong Learning​ I always refer to Senior citizens and retirees taking interest in learning activity. This is the maximum by number of degrees to be held by a single individual. 

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Meet the 50-year-old Chennai professor who holds 145 academic degrees. No kidding
The visiting card of Professor VN Parthiban can barely hold all of the 145 academic degrees he obtained over the course of 30 years.


IndiaToday.in  | Posted by KC Archana
New Delhi, September 7, 2016 | UPDATED 16:15 IST


BRIEFCASE
1Professor VN Parthiban holds more than 145 academic degrees.
2He teaches more than 100 subjects in colleges across Chennai.
3He spends all his Sundays appearing for exams and studying.
Just when you thought having four academic degree is a lifetime achievement, along comes a man who holds not 4, not 40, but a whopping 145 academic degrees.
Yes you read that right!

Meet, Professor VN Parthiban, whose visiting card is like a book in itself, overflowing with hundreds of his academic qualifications.

The list of achievements will send you into a tizzy; he holds 8 Master of Law degrees(ML), 10 Master of Arts degrees(MA), 8 Master of Commerce degrees(M.Com), 3 Master of Science Degrees (MSc), 12 research degrees(M.Phil), and 9 Master of Business Administration degrees(MBA). He also teaches more than a hundred subjects in various colleges spread across Chennai.  

So, how did 55-year-old Parthiban, muster the strength to achieve this incredible feat?
"I really enjoy studying. It's not difficult at all," he said. "I have been continuously in the process of preparing for exams and applying for new degrees or diploma courses," he told the Sunday Indian.

For thirty long years, Partiban has been in the continuous process of applying for different courses. While we can hardly imagine a life without a lazy Sunday, this man has sacrificed all of it in writing exams, so much that invigilators know him by face.

Professor VN Parthiban comes from a humble family in Chennai, and during his days, it was not very easy to go to a college. He says that failure has been an integral part of his journey so far. "I struggled hard to finish my first college degree and got a job in the judiciary department", he said. He started applying to so many courses, that there were times when he studied for the wrong subject and failed the paper.

He even admits having a Mathematics phobia, saying, "I registered for Actuarial Sciences which I could not finish as it involved lot of mathematics which required a lot of effort."

But all of the 145 degrees has taken a toll on his memory, he finds it difficult to recollect people's faces and he even forgets directions to a place he visits every day.

However, Parthiban wishes to continue his journey of learning and collecting more and more degrees along the way.

Kudos to his will power!

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/50-year-old-chennai-professor-has-145-educational-degrees/1/758486.html

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Fwd: MOOC on IMAD from IITM -- FREE FIVE WEEKS Online Course

Free online MOOC from NAPTEL on Application Development

IIT Madras offers Massive Open Online Course (=MOOC) of five weeks duration starting in Sep 2016 on Introduction to Modern Application Development (=IMAD), all for FREE.

No qualifications needed except a basic knowledge of javascript. After five weeks of completion of the course you will have written your own Mobile APP!!!

If there are tech savvy seniors, desirous of dusting their deadly brains, here is an opportunity.

Now read the following message from IIT-M

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We want to draw your attention to the IIT Madras (NPTEL) online course
entitled "Introduction to Modern Application Development" (IMAD).

For details, visit http://www.imad.tech/ and for a short video about
the course, see the IMAD video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC__12iAJGc.

The course instructors are Gaurav Raina (Faculty IITM) and Tanmai
Gopal (IITM Alumnus, CSE, 2012).

Registration for the course is free and all the course videos will be
available online (NPTEL/YouTube). Upon completion of the course, one
can also get certification from IIT Madras.

The students completing this course will have the tangible benefit of
having a shot at getting internships/jobs at some of the top tech
startups/companies in India. Companies such as

ChargeBee <https://www.chargebee.com/> ,
CloudCherry <https://www.getcloudcherry.com/> ,
PickYourTrail <http://pickyourtrail.com/> ,
DIGIGRID Energy Solutions <http://digigrid.in> ,
Playfiks <http://www.playfiks.com/> ,
USP Studios <http://www.uspstudios.co/> ,
SolverMinds <https://www.solverminds.com/> , and
Volante Technologies <http://www.volantetech.com/>

have tied up with us to provide interview opportunities to these
students after the course. We are adding more companies to this list
as we speak. This is a testament to the usefulness of the skills that
the course will be teaching.

This course can be useful for a very wide audience, ranging from
schools, universities, technical institutes, to people working  in
industry. One of the objectives is to get people excited about
technology, and to that end it would be great if you could pass on
information about the course to a wide audience through the various
contacts of the office of international and alumni affairs.

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Dr. Gaurav Raina
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

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Innovative Learning Meetup: Practice of Using Mobile for Lifelong Learning - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

Dear Members of ISU3A

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I am very happy to learn​ about Prof MM Pant and his activities in Education and specially in LLL arena.  I have requested him to join us in ISU3A. Pl read the full story with photos at the url given. I am adding this info to  the IUS3A group mail, to relevant blogs, website etc.

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Innovative Learning Meetup: Practice of Using Mobile for Lifelong Learning

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Prof.MM Pant and Dr. Ramesh Sharma with their passion for mobile lifelong learning have planned Meetups for Sundays from 10 am to 1 pm to deliberate over educational matters of relevance to the future, in particular in the context of readiness for the 4th Industrial revolution.

They are primarily designed to provide an opportunity to participants of members  pursuing life-long learning.

SMILE (Sunday Meetups 4 Innovative Learning Expeditions) is about creating and fostering a community of self-Directed life-long learners, who are active seekers of learning experiences beyond the formal School or

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College environs.

In this age of rapid knowledge obsolescence, social learning in groups of common shared interests is often sought and found. There is no age restriction, but the nature of themes chosen for a specific date, would indicate who would benefit more from them, but all themes could also have a generic interest.

The main benefit would be 'learning' though in a diverse group there would also be 'social' learning as well as bonding and making new friends. 

Their next Meetup is scheduled for Sunday 10th July at the WOODs from 10am to 1pm. In advance to that Meetup, the team is doing a one week Whatsapp course on the same theme beginning Monday 4th July till Saturday 9th July in which even those who can't attend in person on the 10th can participate. We will create a separate Whatsapp group for that which will start getting formed from Monday June 27th. Those who are interested in joining the Whatsapp group for that course module may please make a request accordingly. This group continues as a general group interested in the broad issues.

"To succeed in the already arrived 4th Industrial Age there will be 3 new major ways of acquiring knowledge, and most learners (young or not so young) today are ill equipped to benefit from them. These are :

1: Learning with MOOCs
2: Getting Mentored
3: Social and Peer learning

It is our endeavour to build these skills, competencies and abilities amongst all those who would like to pursue them," says Prof. Pant.

For ease of access, the primary model of learning is to use mobile phones for learning, with WhatsApp as the main communication tool.

The WhatsApp based course on ' Learning with MOOCs' will be launched from Monday 4th July 2016. Prospective learners can request to join here. The key resource person for this course is Dr Ramesh C Sharma and Prof MM Pant is an enabler/facilitator.

For in person interaction, there will be a SMILE Meetup on Sunday 10th July 2016. 

The flow of the WhatsApp course on ' Learning with MOOCs' is as follows:

Learning with MOOCs: DIY degrees & qualifications

Monday July 4th : Day 1: The Nuts and Bolts of MOOCs:
Topic 1.1: The story of MOOCs
Topic 1.2: MOOCs in the USA , UK, Europe, Singapore and Australia…..
Topic 1.3: SWAYAM : the Indian MOOC initiative

Tuesday July 5th : Day 2: Learning with MOOCs
Topic 2.1: A survey of learning opportunities with MOOCs
Topic 2.2: How to choose an appropriate MOOC?
Topic 2.3: MOOCs for success in the 4th Industrial Age

Wednesday July 6th: Day 3:Requisite learner skills set for learning with a MOOC
Topic 3.1: Being active self-directed learners
Topic 3.2: Share ideas & participate in discussions
Topic 3.3: Effective time management & avoiding procrastination

Thursday July 7th :Day 4: Learning how to learn?
Topic 4.1: The learning curve
Topic 4.2: Meta-Learning
Topic 4.3: Durable learning : make it stick

Friday July 8th : Day 5: DIY degrees & qualifications
Topic 5.1:Recognition of learning with MOOCs
Topic 5.2:Trends in acceptability of MOOC credentials
Topic 5.3:Beyond MOOCs : what next?

Saturday July 9th: Day 6; Wrapping Up and tying loose ends

Throughout the week : The next steps
Topic 6.1: Books, weblinks and Apps
Topic 6.2: MOOCs and OERs
Topic 6.3: Getting Mentored

http://edtechreview.in/event/2423-practice-of-using-mobile-for-lifelong-learning

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