HOME CARE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR SENIOR CITIZEN: (HCSSSC)
HCSSSC is a community-based program that aims to provide quality care for the sick, frail, bedridden senior citizens in their own homes through their family/kinship carers and homecare volunteers. The project ensures that older persons, their families and communities promote healthy and harmonious family relationships and take effective steps to provide care and protection to the sick, frail, bedridden, disabled, abandoned and neglected senior citizens.
OBJECTIVES
- Provide a package of caregiving services for senior citizens who have difficulty in performing activities of daily living due to old age and ailments
- Capacitate volunteers to plan and deliver home care support services to the senior citizens in their own homes
- Encourage active participation of the family in establishing and sustaining programs and services for the senior citizens
- Enhance capabilities of implementing LGUs/P0s, senior citizens organizations in the delivery of services to home care beneficiaries
- Raise public awareness on the needs and aspirations of the senior citizens
COMPONENTS
- Social Mobilization
Home care volunteers are mobilized to serve as social support and companion in recreational and socialization activities as well as daily living such as bathing, grooming and dressing, meal preparation, eating and taking medicines - Capability Building
Conduct of skills enhancement on the care and management of senior citizens, team building activities as well as value formation sessions to families, community volunteers & service providers - Service Delivery
Based on the helping plan, beneficiaries are provided with home care, respite services, physical fitness program, kinship care, palliative care and spiritual services
TARGET BENEFICIARIES
- Primary Beneficiaries (Senior Citizens)
Home care volunteers are mobilized to serve as social support and companion in recreational and socialization activities as well as daily living such as bathing, grooming and dressing, meal preparation, eating and taking medicines - In need of care for a certain period of time due to physical and mental conditions
- Secondary beneficiaries:
Family Carers who lack skills/capacity to provide quality care to senior citizens - Home Care volunteers who are willing to share their time, skills and resources to care for the abandoned, neglected, frail and disabled senior citizens
