Tag: #Elderly
Articles tagged with #Elderly
Home sweet home for older Nepalis
Picture of Astaman Maharjan in Ananda NiketanTen years ago, Patan’s Astaman Maharjan donated a plot of land in a prime location and Rs5 million…
Jyoti for the elderly
Jyoti Bikash Bank this week distributed warm clothing for the elderly at the Matatirtha Old-Age Home. Assistant General Manager of the Bank Ram…
Giving all Nepalis a shot at the Covid vaccine
State neglect, international apathy, and the climate crisis magnify vaccine inequity in Nepal
Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…
Nepal braces for new wave with vaccine drive
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEven as Nepal completes the first phase of its Covid vaccine drive to inoculate frontline health workers and other…
Nepal-Japan jobs deal still stuck
Prakash Parajuli at the Tribhuvan International Airport, before boarding his flight to Japan. PHOTO: PRAKASH PARAJULIOn 21 December 2020,…
With temples locked up, Nepalis improvise
A girl worships in a locked up Ganesh temple in Kuleshwor in Kathmandu this week. All photos: Rajani MaharjanFor decades, Dhanamaya Singh…
Spared at first, elderly hit hard by Covid-19
Photo: BIKRAM RAIUp until two months ago, health experts were perplexed as to why mostly younger people were dying of Covid-19 in Nepal and…
The long journey back to Nepal
Social distancing upon embarking at Kathmandu Airport.After the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, it was not immediately apparent that the…
Home health care during a lockdown
Photo: ALISHA SIJAPATIEven before the two-week lockdown, more and more Nepali families with elderly relatives hired nursing care at home.…
Protecting Nepal’s elderly from COVID-19
Pashupati Briddha Ashram home for the elderly. All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAEver since the nationwide lockdown was announced on 23 March, the fear…
Lost in Transition
Though the medium is oil on canvas, Mann Gurung employs only sepia tones in his paintings, evoking the era of old photographs. Indeed, his…
Cold comfort
In her recent article in this paper ‘Gurkha Grandparents’ (#944) Sikuma Rai movingly describes the plight of many elderly Nepalis now living in…
Caring for those who cared
Photo: SHRADDHA SABURI HEALTH SERVICEAs a married, working woman with a child, it was impossible for Jasmine Bajracharya to take days off to…