Description

The Center of Empowerment and Elderly Care (Ehsan) provides home care services to the elderly through trained teams in order to achieve the following:

• Preserving the elderly dignity and enhancing family connections through serving and taking care of them at home and among their own family members and folk.
• Instilling the religious instructions that keep the elderly dignity before their children and grandchildren.
• Directing and instructing the family members as to the way of taking care of the elderly and dealing with the changes accompanying senility.
• Cooperation with the family members by providing the social and psychological services to take part in solving any problems that face the elderly families, within the scale of available potentials.
• Providing health nursing services and physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to some cases of the elderly whose health conditions prevent them from going to hospitals, and training their folk in the health conditions.
• Giving families the chance to fully take care of the other family members while we take care of the elderly by providing for their nursing and physiotherapy needs at home without suffering the hardship of moving to hospitals and saving the time and effort.
• Providing nutritional instruction for each individual case.
• Helping in providing the needy elderly with any compensatory equipment.

how to get the service

To apply for this service, please call Ehsan at switch number (+974)40121000, Fax: (+974)44551717, P.O. Box: 24353, E-mail: info@qfepc.gov.qa.

Additional Information

The Foundation is planning in the near future for:

• Increasing the number of teams in the program.
• Covering all regions in Qatar.
• Providing services for the elderly Qataris and non-Qataris.
• Introducing specialized geriatrics doctors.
• Providing psychologists.
• Providing nutrition specialists.