In cooperation with the Ministry of Community Development, the Federal Youth Foundation has launched a guide for caring for senior citizens, with the aim of educating young people about their role towards senior citizens, and how to take care of them.
The guide provides an integrated set of guidelines that enhance opportunities for youth participation in the diaries of senior citizens, which contributes to strengthening family ties and ties, and raising awareness of their responsibility towards senior citizens, which contributes to creating a cohesive supportive environment whose positive impact will be reflected on different generations.
The director general of the Federal Youth Foundation and member of the National Committee for the Sustainable Development Goals, Saeed Al-Nazri said: “The guide includes a group of the latest mechanisms, ways and means that help Emirati youth to understand and perform their duties and role towards senior citizens who represent the pillar of family cohesion and social cohesion in the UAE.” To work on the happiness and protection of the health of senior citizens is an approach linked to our Arab and Islamic values that we have been brought up from a young age, and in a way that serves sustainable community development in the country.
The Assistant Undersecretary for Social Development Affairs at the Ministry of Community Development stressed a significant share, the importance of the integrative role played by the ministry with various institutions to support all groups of society in order to achieve family stability and social cohesion, noting that «the guide for youth to take care of senior citizens during the spread of epidemics» which was issued with joint cooperation Between the Ministry and the Federal Youth Foundation, it embodies the development partnership based on the principle of personal and national responsibility, which is further strengthened under the current circumstances, under the umbrella of specific initiatives aimed at raising the readiness of young people to deal with epidemics.
She noted the Ministry's keenness to align the guide with the initiatives of the family protection policy, the provisions of the law on the rights of senior citizens, and the objectives of the national policy for senior citizens, which support the improvement of the quality of their lives, and ensure their active and continuous participation within the community fabric in the state, based on seven axes: health care , Community communication and active life, investing energies and civil participation, infrastructure and transportation, financial stability, security and safety, and the quality of future life, explaining that all these axes were taken into account when drafting the guide, in order to achieve strategic development goals The two sides of the state "care and development".
On her part, Salama Al-Ghafli, Project Manager at the Federal Youth Foundation said: “We worked to develop the guide to take advantage of the energies of young people and give them experience and raise their readiness to deal with crises, and we put forth a set of ideas for young people to take care of senior citizens during the spread of epidemics, to create a family environment Coherent.
5 guide groups
The “Young People’s Guide to Taking Care of Senior Citizens During Epidemics” provides a set of main guidelines for optimal care methods for senior citizens in light of the spread of epidemics, and preventive measures that prevent their infection and diseases, especially since some of them suffer from chronic diseases or lack of immunity, so any diseases It can adversely affect their health, and the youth’s role is to increase care for them during this period, and to take more preventive measures to protect them.
The awareness-raising guidelines for the youth in the guide were divided into five groups, namely, the environment, tools, information, interaction and precautionary measures.