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NGO
Forum on
Ageing 5-9 April 2002
DEPENDENT ELDERLY
PEOPLE, HELP SERVICES: FAMILY AS CARE GIVERS
CRE/UDP/FERPA
NGO Forum on Ageing
April 8, 2002
The
best help
In reality, elderly people fit two
typologies, those who are not autonomous but can live at their own home
and those who can not live by themselves and have to enter a rest home.
Thus, family is the main support, but not the only one. To Ardemia Oriani,
from FERPA, “ there is a great necessity of home assistance services.
Everybody has the right to be assisted at home, despite their income.
However, the economic aspect can not be faced only by the family”. The
representatives of the Red Cross of Hong Kong presented the programs they
are carrying out with elderly that pay attention to the assistance of the
ill elderly people. The difference is that it is centered on the creation
of a library which is at the disposal of 11 hospitals and they have even
created the first theatre of the South-East Asia in hospital facilities.
According to one of the volunteers, “ Although I am 70 years old and I
am old too, my task in this NGO has enriched my life. The elderly let us
know them and you learn how to treat and assist them adequately”. The
programs with the elderly of the Red Cross in Mongolia began in 2000 and
have already carried out an intense training task in a participative
methodology. Once they are prepared, the volunteers visit the communities.
The task of the families with people affected by Alzheimer’s Disease is
very hard.
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