Description

The Center of Empowerment and Elderly Care (Ehsan) provides social care services for the elderly, including:

• Studying the elderly men and women cases.
• Closely following up the studied cases, and recording any psychological, social or health changes, that these cases experience and endeavoring to solve them.
• Hosting (Permanent Hosting: For those who do not have family supporters; Intermittent Hosting: For helping families to solve their problems; Limited Period Hosting: For those who cannot travel with their families.)
• Continuous communication with elderly families to provide them with the necessary support.
• Continuous home visits to elderly people to help them in their places of residence.
• Continuous visits to new elderly people at Hamad Hospital, and preparing a report on each case.
• Solving everyday problems facing elderly people in the foundation.
• Providing the elderly with personal supplies (clothing and food and drink).
• Communicating with relevant charitable entities to coordinate and discuss the elderly-related matters.
• Attending training courses, workshops and seminars on elderly people.
• Training students of Qatar University (social work department).
• Providing the needy elderly people with medical chairs and beds to ease the burden on their families, in order for the elderly to stay in his home with his family.
• Implementing programs and activities that help the elderly to spend beneficial time.
• Participating, with the rest of the foundation departments, in events and programs held in the foundation in the morning.
• Helping non-Qatari elderly people to reunion with their families outside the country in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and passports department.
• Contacting foreign embassies and consulates in the country to issue passports and IDs for those without identity.
• Coordinating with the General Authority for Minors Affairs regarding the properties of deceased elderly.
• Preparing final reports and close the deceased files.

Additional Information

For more information, please call Ehsan at switch number (+974)40121000, Fax: (+974)44551717, P.O. Box: 24353, E-mail: info@ehsan.org.qa