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NIAASC holds its 34th Conference

on the theme of “Empowering Aging”

Founder and Chairman of NIAASC.
OUR BUREAU
He spoke at length the need to fos-
Tavares, FL ter partnerships and collaboration
which in an effort to seek synergy so
he National Indo-American as to pave the way for organizing an
for Senior Citizens (NIAASC)
Theld their 34th conference in array of nation-wide workshops for
Seniors.
the town of Tavares, Florida on Sat- The conference was financially
urday, November 18th, 2023. This supported by various sponsors and
event which was attended by over 100 donations ranged from $51.00 to
participants was held in collaboration $10,000.00. The major sponsor being
with Shantiniketan-3, Tavares, Flor- Santosh Kumar from Chicago she
ida. Being that it was the signature is also known as “Mother Teresa of
annual event of NIAASC, a plethora Chicago”. India Home (NY) was an-
of renowned professionals were in at- other notable sponsor and supported
tendance and talked on various top- the event by sponsoring the food.
ics. The theme of the conference was: The cultural program was emceed by
“Empowering Aging”. Tara Ashok and thoroughly regaled
The main topics and speakers
at the meeting were: “Protecting Se- the audience with great fanfare.
At the end of every conference, it
niors Citizens (Safeguarding against is the practice of getting evaluations
Scams)” by Alicia Ramirez (AARP); done by the members in attendance
“Aging --- A Curse or Boon” by Bal- with the sole purpose of getting bet-
dev Seekri; and “Debunking An- ter the next time. Deep dive into
ti-Aging Myths” by Srinivasa Rao. what works and what does not work
The speakers are nationally
known professionals and have been are carefully examined so that areas
and opportunities for improvement
endeared by the community-at-large. are taken into cognizance at the sub-
Alicia Ramirez is a retired profes- sequent events.
sional from AARP and in her speech all participants and talked about the that the vision will continue to for- NIAASC has been in operation
cautioned that AI technology is being detailed program and in her conclud- tify the organization’s mission to be since its inception of Spring of 1999
used to scam the seniors and advised ing remarks assured the members of a force multiplier for helping the Se- with the stated objectives “To pro-
that seniors need to be cognizant on her unwavering commitment to the niors. Gunjan’s speech was followed vide help to seniors through informa-
the aforementioned. Baldev Seekri is organization and further reiterated by Rajeshwar Prasad who is the tion, referral and advocacy services.”.
the author of ‘Meaningful Aging’ and
one of the highlighting topics was
how the mind-set can make mean-
ingful aging happen. Srinivasa Rao,
a bio-medical scientist who has au-
thored a slew of articles on food and
nutrition and in his presentation shed
light on reverse aging via nutrition.
The conference started with
lighting of the lamp and invocation
by Acharya Praygraj, followed by the
opening remarks provided by Yogesh
Naik from Shantiniketan-3 (Advisory
Committee) and Chandrakant Shah
(NIAASC Conference Coordinator)
who welcomed all the participants
and the guests. This was followed by
the lecture topics as per above. All
the above-named speakers are sub-
ject matter experts, and the delivery
of the topics were succinct and mate-
rial content was one that allayed a lot
of apprehension/misgivings that the
attendees had relating to Aging and
its effects.
In her welcome speech, Gunjan
Rastogi, NIAASC president greeted

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