SAVERA: EMPOWERING THE GOLDEN AGED

Growing old is a beautiful phenomenon, but carries a lot of major changes in the day-to-day life of the people experiencing it. As a person grows older, they see some extensive changes in their life. These changes could be related to their physical and mental health, career, children leaving home, loss of loved ones, and many more. This is the time of their lives when they have an immense amount of wisdom, but their physical health deteriorates, and doing regular chores could be challenging. 

Though the family members try their best to support such transition, sometime they are unable to do so because they have got their lives and responsibilities. As in the new times, families are nuclear, which makes it difficult for the family members to help the elders round the clock and to always be around. The elders often feel helpless and dependent on people to do even the smallest of things. 

This mentally affects them in a negative way. Many people believe that older people mostly need medical assistance, but there are also many non-medical activities, for which they might require help.

FRIENDS OF MENTORS PROJECT

Savera took the initiative to help the elderly people in the society through “Friends of Mentors” project. The mentors are the elderly people in our society, and the friends are the volunteers who would help our mentors to lead an independent life. This project is about helping elderly people to be independent with a little bit of help. 

With an organization that aims in helping the golden aged people, and make them independent, elderly people have no reason to worry. Savera helps the mentors (elderly people) to do their day-to-day activities without depending on their children or anybody else’s support. This sense of independence has a positive impact on the mentor’s mental health and enables them to live worry-free.

Savera could be helpful in following ways:

Physical Assistance: 

Though the mentors like to do their daily chores by themselves, sometimes it could be a challenge. These activities could include, going to the grocery store, their regular medical check-ups, or even for a walk. Our “Friends” will help them do all these activities with ease and with no stress. 

Social support: 

These days the families have become nuclear, due to which, mentors live separately, whereas their children live in a different city or even country. At times like this, living alone might get lonely, especially if they have lost their partner. Savera can help them socialize with people around. We can organize evenings of entertainment, such as playing cards, a movie, or board games. This would let the mentors socialize and have great fun.  

Practical Solutions:

Many times, a mentor might have some work to be done like, banking work, taxes, legal work, renovation in their house, or even some sort of repair work. It could be a task for them to contact different people for one job. Instead, they could just dial Savera, all the chores would be managed by us. The project has volunteers from different career domains like lawyers, chartered accountants, financial advisors, builders, etc.  Whenever our mentors have any task to be done, our friends will be at their service to help them complete the task without any worry.

Avoid old-age homes:

In recent times, people are not able to help their parents or grandparents because they have a busy schedule. Many times, the mentors’ children feel helpless because they are unable to help their parents because of their daunting schedules. Hence, they consider the option of old age homes, so that their parents can get better support. But the mentors do not feel safe and happy about leaving their homes and going to an alien place. With the help of Savera, Mentors can get their work done independently and their children can also be at peace that their parents are in safe hands and they do not have anything to worry about. 

A worry-free life:

Savera enables its mentors to lead a happy life in their place, doing their activities by themselves, without any hesitation or worry. They can eliminate the option of old age homes, living in an unfamiliar place, and living peacefully in the comfort of their place. Savera helps them to live this and many more innings of their life worry-free. 

Aging is an inevitable process, which nobody can escape. It is the process when your day-to-day needs increase but the energy to do the same decrease. In old age homes, elderly people could never get the feeling of comfort, which they used to get in their homes, where they and their families had lived for ages. Hence, Savera aims in empowering its mentors to lead an independent life and not rely on anyone.