The community should consider one common facility
where all the elders can be cared for
Dr Vispi Jokhi
As per the 2011 census there were 57,264 Parsis in India. With our declining fertility rate of 0.8, which is way below the 2.3 required to stabilize population, in all probability 100 years later we may be staring at extinction.
We are looking at a tragic scenario where many will be completely disabled, unable to perform even the basic activities of daily living, beset with loneliness, dementia and ill treatment by caregivers, leading to a slow, suffering death.
As practiced today, Medicine 2.0, as I refer to allopathy, is reactive. We are reacting to diseases as they occur and treating the symptoms......