Hypertension is a major non-communicable disease affecting the elderly and often goes undetected, leading to serious complications. This community engagement program aimed to empower older adults in managing hypertension through routine blood pressure checks and participatory health education focused on medication adherence. The activity was conducted with 40 older adults from the Bilansia community in Surakarta, who regularly gather for social and health-related events.

Economic and social transformations of a country depend heavily on population age-structure and its growth dynamics along with impact on policies adopted and generation of opportunities.The paper describes major socio-economic-demographic consequences of India based on changing demography with emphasis on measurement aspects of demographic dividends (DV) and suggests indices like active participation index (API), comprehensive e-participation index (CEPI), index of participation rate of females (I_FLFPR) combining relevant chosen indicators in ratio or ordinal scales.

Within the humanities, there has traditionally been an interest in the relationship between technical developments and cultural memory and storytelling. Digital storytelling has transformed how we, as individuals and communities, share our memories through multimodal environments that weave voice, image, text and interactivity in complex ways over the past couple decades.

One important framework for making sense of the entangled impacts of colonialism on nations, cultures and identities is postcolonial stories. They challenge the impact of colonial history on political systems, cultural practices and social structures, and how these have persisted into the present. These narratives take on fresh significance in an age of both globalisation, engaging with the perils and dividends it offers and colonial triumphalism.

Solutions to everyday challenges formulated by communities are termed "grassroots innovation," and have evolved into an important avenue for sustainable and equitable development. Community-led innovations promote inclusive growth by improving livelihoods, expanding services and local capacity in a way that also preserves environmental resources, we learn in this article.