Old Aged Home Helping

Although the constitution of India defined as welfare state and Indian family as a social institution is well known for the emotional and physical support that it provides to its extended members, many a time it fails to respond to the needs of older people in the age group of 60 years and above in difficult circumstance specially in the metropolitan cities. Immediate support and care of the family are not available due to many reasons ranging from economic instability of the family to provide such support to the breakdown of joint family system to the social bias against the vulnerable older people as also the attitude and value attached to such section group. I hey were not only abused by their natural children, in-laws within the own parent; rater they tortured them both physically and mentally, worse thing is that many of the young generation wish for their early death as they considered their living under the same shelter gives an economy burden. Sometimes society itself drives such aged person out of the system to lead lives of sub human existence. More often vulnerable aged people in distress ends up as servant, slave in the family in a different form for their own survival.

It is understandable that aging is a natural process but is quite difficult to accept it. Facing up to the realities of fading away of mental and physical energies is seldom easy. The phases of creativity, achievements and triumphs get over by and by. At this age, there is not left much to look forward. Adding to these woes, sickness and disabilities, which usually come along with age. I he family at times abandons this person and no one bothers about him anymore. A person who once used to enjoy his rightful place at the centre of the family scene is today driven to the periphery. Once an active participant, today he is left with the role of mere an observer. He just stands and watches as life passes them by. At this fag-end life, what is needed most is to care and support both physically and emotionally. To help and provide this care, a residential program for the aged is being proposed through this project. So far, the intervention to this vulnerable section group cover only a fringe of the problems and very limited intervention in this regards has been made by few organization, hence We as a part of the responsible citizen of the country wish to intervene immediately through more flexible and innovative approach for the aged people in distress in diverse situations under different conditions. The programme will be focus to those living in difficult circumstances through a Home-based holistic and integrated approach

General Approach of the Project:

1.Establishment of an Old Age Home for the older people aging 60 years and above to provide adequate facilities and to relief them both physical and emotional levels.

    2.To create Homes that provides peaceful and comfortable living for the Old of above 60 years of age with food, shelter and clothing.  3.Home for aged persons of 60 years and above having no income and who are in desperate need for shelter, food and clothing. 4.  To provide physical and psychological well-being of the aged inmates in the care home.

 5.To eradicate social prejudice regarding the status of aged people in their family and unveil and cure those social and economic realities that leads to their negligence.

 6.The project aims to carry out a plan based on a micro-level approach. The reason for this approach is to ensure that the project that the project plan be based on proper identification of beneficiaries.

The creation of suffering among the elderly persons stems from many factors such as:

 Background of the Problem

§  Idle and disorderly youth which ends up making them a public nuisance who cannot remember to work for their future and to save for their old age.

§  School drop-outs due to parents failing to raise school fees for their children, others developing negative attitude towards formal education. Major factors of school drop-outs include:

-   Unemployment and underemployment among parents.

-   Political instability

-   Poor historical background

-   Harsh economic conditions at society and at household levels.

-   Disintegration of families, family values and morals.

-  The scourge of AIDS which has ravaged many families and left many self-parenting children and others to become a burden to the elderly persons, many of these victimized people are left in villages to suffer without any one to assist them.

Food security, medical care, shelter, clothes, primary health care i.e. sanitation, nutrition, health education, food hygiene, personal hygiene and immunization to both elderly and their dependents.

 -  Creation of consultation and information bank about elderly persons and their affairs