Doha: The Elderly Empowerment and Care Center (Ehsan), affiliated with Qatar Foundation for Social Work (QFSW), continued to provide social and health support and counseling services, whose services were launched last year, coinciding with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The provision of home care services stopped due to the extent of the elderly’s need for support, guidance and direction and a desire to develop services for the Ehsan center.
The center continued in providing these services, after the support and social counseling team proved its success during the past year through continuous communication with a specific category of elderly who need to talk with specialists in social service and health education to raise their spirits, reduce psychological and social pressures, and help them face some of the problems and difficulties they face in their lives.
Also included was helping their children on how to deal with them, as they need special treatment, and the special team is concerned with social and health support and counseling, with the help of service providers as well, including nurses or workers in an elderly home.
The center had announced that it had begun to receive new cases interested in health social support and counseling services at the beginning of the current year, as nearly 1,300 beneficiaries of the services provided by the team were registered through phone calls, text messages and educational clips.
The team works to provide support services and social counseling for the elderly and their family and those interested, whether they are their children or caregivers, to raise their spirits by communicating with them and check on their general health, enhance their psychological state, follow their health, social and psychological state, provide instructions, advice and some videos that train them to practice specific exercises for physical therapy and health care, and direct them to follow the advice of Ehsan through social media.
The center also provided the elderly with numbers for hotlines concerned with health and psychological counseling. The center also provided them with numbers for home delivery services and pharmacies.
