 I'm Dr. Ananya Das, a consultant in geriatric medicine working in Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. As we know because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, our elderly citizens are not able to come to the hospital due to the ongoing lockdown, so I have a few important messages to my elderly patients so that they do not panic during this lockdown period. When should you visit a hospital? That is the most important question because the elderly do have a lot of comorbid conditions like hypertension, diabetes, chronic lung disease, heart issues. So what is the right time to come to the hospital? The right time to come to the hospital is only during an emergency. Now what is an emergency? Emergency can be supposing our elderly patients can have a slip and fall at home and if they fall at home that can result in a fracture. So that is an emergency. Number two, if there is any cardiac issues, suddenly the patient becomes unresponsive, difficulty in bleeding, indicating any heart attack, then of course you have to rush to the hospital. So these are certain small scenarios where you should come to the hospital no matter what and whether the time when you should avoid hospital is when you can manage things at home without visiting the doctor personally and instead of that going for a video consultation. So what are the issues which can be taken care of by video consultation? Are like a minor fever, cough, cold, any urinary infection, any fluctuation in your blood sugar, fluctuation in your BEP. So these things can be managed from a distance via telemedicine by consulting your doctor and who can review your medications and who can give you a new prescription and so that that can be carried out at home without risking your life and come into the hospital during the lockdown. And you should not panic during this lockdown period because you know it is we are going through a crisis no doubt but being at home is the safest place and it is the safest thing to do and also you know we should try to eat everything healthy clean develop our immunity so that we can combat the viral infection and social distancing of course has to be maintained that is within the house and when you face problems at home like when you have you know when you need medications or where medications are over then you can call the Manipal Home Care Services who deal with you know go step delivery of Medicaid medicines if there is any emergency they can even do pick up and drop to the hospital via the Mars ambulance there is also a provision of you know doing blood test at home via Manipal Home Care Services and also for doing home based physiotherapy so you can go for the Home Care Services during this lockdown period to ensure that your you know health remains stable without you know compromising your life.