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Indian village may hold key to beating dementia
Ballabgarh in northern India has unusually low levels of Alzheimer's disease. More than 820,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, a number that is expected to double by 2051. Is there anything that can be learnt from this region to slow the trend?...
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Dare to Care
A Facebook Cause dedicated to raise awareness about and to Fight Stigma sorrounding Mental Illness
Thursday, February 25, 2010
1000 Cities - 1000 Lives
World Health Day 2010 will focus on urbanization and health. The theme was selected in recognition of the effect urbanization has on our collective health globally and for us all individually...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address (and not residing in one of the countries where it is banned) can become a Facebook user. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include (potentially) any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 400 million active users worldwide.
The original concept for Facebook was borrowed from a product produced by Zuckerberg's prep school Phillips Exeter Academy which for decades published and distributed a printed manual of all students and faculty, unofficially called the "face book".
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property. The site has also been involved in controversy over the sale of fans and friends...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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- Rtn. Dr. Mainak Mukherjee
- Burdwan, West Bengal, India
- Multiple Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International; Member, National Geographic Society; Activist, Greenpeace International; Member, Kennel Club of India; Life Fellow and Ex-National Chairperson, Website Task Force, Indian Psychiatric Society; Life Member, Indian Medical Association; Past Hony. Secreatary, IMA, Burdwan Branch; Life Member, The Agri-Horticultural Society of India; Life Member, Bengal Rose Society; Hony. Secretary, IPS WB State Branch (2011, 12); Founder and Ex-Hony. Secretary, IPS Bardhaman Branch; Founder and Hony. Secretary, Burdwan Alzheimer Society; Past District e-committee Chairman, RID 3240; Past Editor, RC Burdwan Greater, RID 3240...
Dear Friend,
Following yet another round of Round Tables on the next draft amendment to the National Trust Act, I forward the following welcoming news:
The Expert Group which met on 22nd March at NALSAR made the strongest proposal for the inclusion of all disabilities under the broader rubric of "Legal Capacity and Support Act, 2010". There were very few people who argued for not including mental illness. The Act also allows for a range of positive rights and rights linked community services.
Many of us in the mental health sector feel the MHA at our door step, but have a far away view of NTA, as it has not applied to us so far.
However, we should strongly advocate for the present amendment to go through on inclusive legislation.
If the MHA is controversial on many fronts, the NTA is not: All of us, whatever our other persuasions, agree that mental illness must be included in the NTA. If the NTA comes in, the regime of guardianship established until the MHA will also be dismantled.
The battle is far from over. The Board of the NTA with staunch anti-inclusion advocates such as Parivar, is meeting on the April 7th to decide the fate of the recent amendment. We have many allies within the subcommittee which is taking the amendment proposals before the Board.
It is most important that all of us from the disability and mental health sector ply the ChairPerson, and the NTA Board, with petitions and staunch appeals on inclusion, giving reasons why.
Please do write to Ms. Poonam Natrajan, Chair Person, National Trust at enable@vsnl.com as soon as possible.
Do forward this email to other friends in the disability movement.
Best
Bhargavi Davar.
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"People get drugged for hearing voices which are not really there; Who will drug the mental health system for NOT hearing [user / survivor] voices which are really there?"