Health Webinar | Handling Stress as a Senior Citizen | Dr. Monika M. Dass
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2026年06月29日
On 27 June 2026 #seniorstoday sToday hosted their weekly #health Live Webinar with a Leading Psychologist, #DrMonikaMDas who spoke on and answered questions about Handling Stress as a Senior Citizen.
Dr Monika Dass is a Chartered Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, UK. Professionally, she has counselled around 15,000 individuals in a span of 20 years and has published several papers in both Indian and international journals.
A trained pianist and vocalist from the Trinity College of Music, London, Dr Dass has influenced many lives with the joyful learning of music. She has been actively involved in several popular musicals such as The Sound of Music, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and so on…with her expertise in developing children through drama. She firmly believes that any extracurricular activity can help tap into one’s potential and bring out the best in an individual.
Handling stress as a senior citizen relies on an actionable blend of daily physical movement, consistent social connections and proactive mental relaxation to help manage late-in-life transitions.
You need to be socially connected with not just your family but also your friends and people around you, people in society. You need to stay mobile and try to meet people. Being Proactively involved for your own mental relaxation is extremely important to be able to manage the transition to becoming a senior citizen in his retirement years.
Managing late life transitions is a major issue and the 3 things that will help you ease that transition are mentioned above I.e.
Daily Physical Movement
Consistent Social Connections
Proactive mental relaxation
Some targeted strategies include
Move your body daily : Gentle Physical Activity like long nature walks, swimming, or light yoga helps regulate your stress hormones and helps in releasing physical tension without straining your joints.
2. Practice Mindfulness : Incorporating intentional deep breathing exercises or guided meditation for just a few minutes each day can easily calm a racing heart and also help clear racing thoughts. Meditation immediately relaxes your heart rate and brings down whatever tension is there in your body thereby helping you focus better.
3. Combat Isolation : Stay connected with your loved ones or try joining peer support groups to share your feelings with people who might understand. It is important that you find like-minded people going through the same transition so you can enjoy your time with them and not solely depend on your family.
4. Adjust to retirement : Adjusting to retirement is not easy, it is a huge life change. Retirement is a state of mind. You can retire from your main job but you can get involved in something else and keep yourself busy by doing things that you enjoy. Retirement is not merely about sitting in your chair watching TV all day and just doing mundane things. You need to keep your mind going and it is important to remember that you may retire from your world of work into things that you enjoy and keep yourself extremely busy, such that you don’t have time to think or feel sorry for yourself.
Dr Monika Dass is a Chartered Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, UK. Professionally, she has counselled around 15,000 individuals in a span of 20 years and has published several papers in both Indian and international journals.
A trained pianist and vocalist from the Trinity College of Music, London, Dr Dass has influenced many lives with the joyful learning of music. She has been actively involved in several popular musicals such as The Sound of Music, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and so on…with her expertise in developing children through drama. She firmly believes that any extracurricular activity can help tap into one’s potential and bring out the best in an individual.
Handling stress as a senior citizen relies on an actionable blend of daily physical movement, consistent social connections and proactive mental relaxation to help manage late-in-life transitions.
You need to be socially connected with not just your family but also your friends and people around you, people in society. You need to stay mobile and try to meet people. Being Proactively involved for your own mental relaxation is extremely important to be able to manage the transition to becoming a senior citizen in his retirement years.
Managing late life transitions is a major issue and the 3 things that will help you ease that transition are mentioned above I.e.
Daily Physical Movement
Consistent Social Connections
Proactive mental relaxation
Some targeted strategies include
Move your body daily : Gentle Physical Activity like long nature walks, swimming, or light yoga helps regulate your stress hormones and helps in releasing physical tension without straining your joints.
2. Practice Mindfulness : Incorporating intentional deep breathing exercises or guided meditation for just a few minutes each day can easily calm a racing heart and also help clear racing thoughts. Meditation immediately relaxes your heart rate and brings down whatever tension is there in your body thereby helping you focus better.
3. Combat Isolation : Stay connected with your loved ones or try joining peer support groups to share your feelings with people who might understand. It is important that you find like-minded people going through the same transition so you can enjoy your time with them and not solely depend on your family.
4. Adjust to retirement : Adjusting to retirement is not easy, it is a huge life change. Retirement is a state of mind. You can retire from your main job but you can get involved in something else and keep yourself busy by doing things that you enjoy. Retirement is not merely about sitting in your chair watching TV all day and just doing mundane things. You need to keep your mind going and it is important to remember that you may retire from your world of work into things that you enjoy and keep yourself extremely busy, such that you don’t have time to think or feel sorry for yourself.
