Indian Journal Of Psychiatry 2015;57 (4) :430-1 We agreed with Tiwari that loneliness among older adults become significant public health issue. In his guest editorial Tiwari mention three type of loneliness situational, developmental and internal loneliness.We believe ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) can help to reduce the chances of loneliness. For healthy ageing and to maintain older adults mobile ADL activities plays an essential role . They focus more on ADL activities compare to any other work because it is a common activity people used to do throughout their lives to fulfil their time and give meaning of their life. (Letter to Editor) http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5545;year=2015;volume=57;issue=4;spage=430;epage=431;aulast=Sau

Scientific Research Journal of India, 3 (1). pp. 52-57. ISSN 2277-170 Like other part of the world, usage of social media is growing rapidly among various age groups using Internet actively in India. Social media has good and bad qualities within it. Occupational therapist can use social media effectively to promote their professional qualities through media based activities in the virtual forum. Social media such as Internet based access is cost effective, consumer friendly, communicates faster and reaches everyone around the world by few clicks but Occupational Therapist should use these media with utmost cautious. This article is a try to summaries some perception about ethical and legal issues on social media users among occupational therapy practitioners in India. https://sites.google.com/site/scientificrji/archives/archive-2014-vol-2014

Indian Journal of Medical Research, 138(12). pp.1029-1030. ISSN 0971-5916 Open access of journals is one of the changing aspects of journal publishing in modern day. This system is a blessing for scientific communities because it is easily available in digital form and allows user to read, download, copy, distribute, and print without any barrier, thus increases impact of the published material. The progress of scientific knowledge in any field depends on retrieval and accessibility of relevant literature and in this regard archiving and access of open access literature plays a major role. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3978960/ http://icmr.nic.in/ijmr/2013/December/1236.pdf

The Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(3). p. 26. ISSN 0445-706 Internet is a modern day essential for every individual. It plays an important role for collaborating, communicating and making community across globe. Email and social media are two common forms of internet use. Both email and social media are useful for promotion and marketing. Worldwide various members countries of World Federations of Occupational Therapy (WFOT) are using these two medium for promoting and marketing occupational therapy and they are also encouraging there members to use those medium for promoting and marketing. American Occupational Therapist Association (AOTA) launched social network site (http:// otconnections.aota.org/) for occupational therapist. British Association of Occupational Therapists developed social media guideline for their members. These are the sign of involvement of occupational therapist and occupational therapy profession in Internet worldwide. Situation is same here in India. (Letter to Editor) http://medind.nic.in/iba/t13/i3/ibat13i3p26.pdf

British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76 (8). p. 387. ISSN 0308-0226 The scientific, peer review article has an important role in developing and disseminating knowledge among researchers, academics and clinicians. Ilott et al have suggested that the exchange of knowledge between developed and developing world because is fundamental to the globalization of evidence in research. In practice, the scenario is quite different: like other journals in the field of bio medical and health research, occupational therapy journals are not generally available to occupational therapist in developing world. Practitioners are often unable to afford a subscription to the journal due to to high exchange rates and so don not access to the latest knowledge. This lack of access creates a knowledge gap in the field between developed and developing world. (Letter to Editor)

Scientific Research Journal of India, 2 (3). pp. 59-66. ISSN 2277-170 Objective: The purpose of this study is to find out the present scenario of occupational therapy marketing in India. Methodology: An author designed survey questionnaire is used for this study. Other Allied health staff, other rehabilitation staff and local occupational therapist revised the questionnaire in three stages. After the three-staged revision final survey questioners was made and send to different occupational therapist working in various parts of India. Result: All participants (100%) are agreeing with that there is a need of marketing. But they are not satisfied with the present marketing scenario of occupational therapy in India. Conclusion: This study can use by practitioner for marketing guidance. https://sites.google.com/site/scientificrji/archives/archive-2013

International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 3 (5). pp. 107-110. ISSN 2249-9571 Objective: In the last decade, it has become more evident that cerebellum plays a major role in cognitive, behavioral and affective abnormalities. In this case study, we report about a client who developed “Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome” following a cerebellar hemorrhage and the rehabilitation process following the same. Design: A single case study. Methods: The patient was a 31 years old male, who was working as an executive manager was referred to Occupational Therapy Dept. for evaluation and rehabilitation. The patient showed ataxia of the trunk and the extremities as a part of motor evaluation. In cognitive evaluation, MMSE a screening tool and LOTCA, standardized cognitive assessment in occupational therapy was carried out and the results revealed disturbance in orientation, attention, memory-both short term & long term and impairments in executive functioning, visuo-spatial functioning. Behavioral and affective abnormalities also noted during evaluation. Due to impairments in cognitive, motor, behavioral and affective components the client was totally dependent on his family members for his Basic Activities of Daily Living. Cognitive rehabilitation, Functional balance retraining, fall prevention education, caregiver education and home modifications were carried out in order to make the client independent in his daily living tasks and also to maximize his abilities to return to his work. http://www.ijhsr.org/vol_current_issue_May_2013/18.pdf

International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences, 2 (3). pp. 660-661. ISSN 2319-5886 Social media is any web or mobile based platform that’s enables an individual or agency to communicate interactively and enables exchange of user generated content1. Facebook is the most powerful social media 2 and India is the third 3in world in terms of active user. So Indian occupational therapist can use Facebook effectively for professional growth. http://ijmrhs.com/vi23/54.%20Koushik%20etal.pdf

Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol XLI No 3. Page 63-68, ISSN 0445-706 OBJECTIVES- 1. To study the effect of balance exercise on balance control of unilateral lower limb amputees.2. To study the difference in balance control in Trans Femoral and Trans Tibial amputees. METHODOLOGY-Thirty unilateral Trans-femoral and Trans-tibial amputees were selected and divided into two groups of 15 each. Control group received conventional training and Experimental group received conventional training along with Phyaction balance exercise. Duration of treatment was 30 minutes, five days a week for four weeks. Pre and Post training evaluation of functional reach, and Global balance performance was done for both the groups. Statistical analysis was done by t test. RESULT: Statistically significant improvement was seen in all the outcome measures in experimental group and no significant improvement was seen in case of control group which shows that balance exercise is effective in controlling balance in unilateral lower limb amputees. CONCLUSION: Early phase balance exercise is effective in controlling balance of unilateral lower limb amputees. Area covered by the non-affected limb was more in comparison to the prosthetic limb, so strengthening of the non-affected limb should be incorporated in the rehabilitation of unilateral lower limb amputees. http://medind.nic.in/iba/t09/i3/ibat09i3p63.pdf

Several studies have established the importance of leisure in the overall well-being of people of different ages. Leisure interest, a vital determinant of the benefits one gets from leisure seems to have received little or no attention over the years.

This study was done to find out the level of performance in all 22 ADL components together among elderly population using a self-report measure.

the study was done to find out the level of awareness of PWD act among allied health science students.

Aim of this scoping review was to examine and synthesize the literature on the use of assistive devices and splints in clients with rheumatoid arthritis.