Sometime we do not think about our senior people living with us under the same roof. We often neglect them or rather avoid their presence in the family, we don’t understand their feeling and emotions and we become rude or we don’t want to listen them when they are talking. Therefore, these senior people lose interest from their life as well as self-respect and they feel lonely and unwanted. Rachna Women’s Development Association respects these ‘senior citizen’ and welcomes them in the Day Care Center to fulfill their need and improves their quality of life with dignity and respect. The idea behind this project is to share their lifelong experiences with each other and provide relief from loneliness. Over the time period of two decades, this Day Care Center has been working shoulder to shoulder with the community by taking care of these senior people.
Aim
To provide a Day Care Center for the elderly group of our community who are either neglected, have no children or left by their families to look after them to provide a sense of dignity, self-respect, self-reliance and self-confidence so as to improve their quality of life.
Objectives
- To provide a clean, healthy day care center with all essential commodities such as Electricity, drinking water, washroom etc.
- To monitor their health status every day.
- To arrange a regular health check up by a team of qualified doctor, nurse & technician.
- To have a provision of ambulance if someone falls sick for the referral procedure.
- To provide nutritional food to the senior citizen as per their health condition and doctor’s advice.
- To engage them in various activities and let them participate in the event as per their capabilities so that they can still enjoy their lives like a home – away from home.
- To allow them in all sorts of activities as per their hobbies like singing, dancing, making fun etc.
- A regular entertaining programme is carried out for these elderly people such as singing, dancing, making jokes and also some folk dances.
- A regular health check-up is undertaken to monitor their health status as they become sick more often.
- There is a referral system to refer the serious person to the nearest Govt. Hospital.
- A proper meal system is arranged for them in the morning and at noon as per the Doctor’s advice.
- The center encourages the elderly people to participate in all type of activities making sure they are engaged whole day and should not feel bore.
Activity Report
The Senior citizens of RWDA for Senior citizens participate in all the events organized by the organization. Some of them are given below: In the year 2017-2018, in these activities 100 elderly person enrolled with us and benefitted.
- RWDA – Annual Day Celebration
- RWDA – Christmas Celebration
- Republic Day Celebration
- Annual Sports Day Meet
- World Senior Citizen Day
- Other Activity
Achievements
RWDA registers the senior citizens above 60 years of age. More than 50 senior citizens are registered in RWDA. These senior citizens (male and female both) come to the organization at 8 a.m. in the morning and performed yoga, read newspapers, novels and magazine, religious text (like Mabharat, Puran, Bhagawat Gita, Quran, Bible, Guru Granth Saheb etc.). Apart from we provide them the Carrom board, Ludo, T.V DVD for their entertainment. They are also provided breakfast in the organization. We also organize two tours in a year, one in Delhi and the other out of station. Health check-ups are also done every week and medicines are provided to them with the consultation of Doctor’s. We take full care of these beloved senior citizens.