The Community Development Authority (CDA) succeeded in empowering and integrating 53 elderly people over the past year, while the number of senior citizens enrolled in the Authority's “Life Care Home” program, which is dedicated to serving senior citizens living alone, dropped from 80 last year to 33. This year, according to the latest statistics issued by the Authority, Emirates Today has seen a copy of it, in addition to installing seven alarms to protect senior citizens living alone.

Maryam Al Hammadi, Director of the Senior Citizens Department, told Emirates Today that the Authority's orientation has always been and will continue to integrate the elderly with their families, even if the kinship is second class. "She has children or relatives, or not being able to be reunited with her family for certain social, health or financial reasons."

Al-Hammadi stated that the services provided to senior citizens through the service of Waleef vary, and include social, cognitive, rehabilitative, self-care, recreational and recreational services, as well as follow up the needs of the elderly with the service, health and other bodies.They are offered to the elderly registered as part of an approved rehabilitation and training plan.

Al Hammadi also touched on the Volunteer Initiative, which aims to benefit from the energies of volunteering to serve senior citizens, who live alone in the Emirate of Dubai, by volunteering to serve them by providing a range of services of a social nature, pointing to the high number of volunteers, during the current year, to 29 volunteers in the initiative, compared with 16 in the past year.

Al-Hammadi listed the services provided by the volunteers in the Lif program. She said that they include being with the elderly and talking to him, creating a link between him and his relatives, friends and society, as well as knowledge services, such as informing senior citizens about the latest news, and implementing programs that suit their wishes. In addition to recreational services, such as the participation of senior citizens in their hobbies, and fill their leisure time to engage in recreational activities such as painting, carpentry, in addition to raising the needs of senior citizens to the coordinator in charge of the Authority.

In the framework of the home care provided by the Authority to senior citizens, Al Hammadi pointed to the installation of seven alarms to protect senior citizens living alone, pointing to the adoption by the Authority, in 2015, a new technology developed by the General Directorate of Smart Services in Dubai Police, to provide a quick response to any expected danger may Threatens the life or security of senior citizens.

“This technology provides specific remote-controlled alarms with buttons attached to a tape placed by the elderly on his wrist or on the wall of the room, so that he can quickly press the desired button as soon as any danger is detected. Of external dangers, if they are at home alone. ''

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The Dubai Community Development Authority (CDA) launched the Walief Program in 2013 to care for and improve the quality of life of senior citizens living in the emirate of Dubai by providing them with a range of life-saving services through a range of care programs at their homes, by social workers and trained care workers. To care for and care for adults, and to provide home care for them, in accordance with best practices and the highest standards, while respecting their dignity, independence and appreciation of their tenders.