AYURVEDIC APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF AGEING AND RELATED DISORDER

World Health Day 2012 was celebrated on April 7, 2012 to mark the anniversary of the founding of the WHO in 1948. This year's theme was "Active ageing: Good health adds life to years." As the life expectancy of individuals has improved due to better health care delivery system, an old age boom is anticipated in 21st century. Problems related to old age are also likely to be increased largely.Ayurvedic seers and sages were well aware of problems of ageing since long back. Old age (jara) is described as a spontaneous disease in Ayurvedic texts. Gradual weakling of normal physiological functions, lowered metabolic activities and gradual loss of body strength characterizes it. This can be accompanied with disturbance in mental faculties. Human starts thinking that this is inevitable and he / she must reconcile with old age but it has been observed, that the above mentioned symptoms of senility manifest as early as in forty or fifty years of age. This sort of premature aging is definitely a stage when one must think of adopting some prophylaxis so that he / she may save himself / herself from getting in grip of old age.