Böcker av Rakesh Kumar Tripathi

Phenomenal rise in elderly population is bound to add to already existing enormous mental health demands. Age-related changes in sensation and perception, cognitive functions like memory, orientation, calculation, and concentration etc. are significant in themselves. The ability to perform functions for self care, planning and execution are critical indicators of an individual¿s ability to live independently. Decline in cognitive functions hamper their activities of daily living thus, compromise their quality of life. The book is based on PhD thesis of Author submitted to King George Medical University UP, Lucknow India. Relationships between cognitive functioning and quality of life of Indian urban elderly have been thoroughly studied and are being presented in this book. Age, gender, education, family, occupational and socioeconomic status wise specific cognitive functions and different domains of quality of life of older adults are discussed. Quality of Life of cognitively impaired elderlies was found significantly poor as compared to normal group. These early detection, are important since it provides a window of opportunity for therapeutic interventions, policy making.

Swami Vivekananda: The Journey of a Spiritual Entrepreneur details the events of Vivekananda's life, encompassing his transformation from a nameless wanderer to the most renowned representative of Hinduism of all times. In this book, we come across the Vivekananda who not only created history by delivering the Chicago Lecture in 1893 but also established the Ramakrishna Order through an unparalleled entrepreneurial spirit which brought to the fore his qualities as a decisive leader and an excellent communicator who reached out globally to convey the message of the Vedanta. These attributes of Vivekananda's personality have remained largely unexplored in most of the books written on him. This book also maps Hinduism and its present-day challenges vis-à-vis its attributes in light of Swami Vivekananda's philosophy and brings forth its contemporary relevance in a practical manner for the reader at a time when the fire of fundamentalism among different faiths has turned religions of the world essentially into separating factors within humanity. Further, it also contains detailed descriptions of practical approaches to translation that will help scholars build a comprehensive framework for translation of complex texts such as the Vedas and Upanishads. It finally concludes with the Indian media's articulate advocacy of Vivekananda's approach on a number of platforms in recent times, to unite humanity despite all its diversity as it is ever more relevant today.