Emirates Today accompanied the mobile care unit team affiliated to the Ministry of Community Development to visit the father, Salem Al-Madhani, one of the senior citizens registered in the home care system launched by the ministry to provide a set of health and psychological treatment services for senior citizens in their homes or any location where they request the service.
The mobile care unit set out from the Senior Citizens Happiness Center in Mushairif in Ajman to the home of Al-Madhani in Al-Jarf.
The team’s journey usually begins from the Happiness Center for Senior Citizens in the Emirate of Ajman towards the predetermined location according to the daily schedule of field visits or to meet the call of a senior citizen to conduct an urgent medical or psychological examination or assistance. The mobile unit is technically equipped with a specialized team consisting of a social worker, a physician, a physiotherapist, a nurse and an assistant.
The team conducts home visits to senior citizens to provide the necessary services they need, social or health, in order to serve the identification of family members with ways of dealing and proper care with senior citizens, which in turn contributes to strengthening family ties.
Al-Madhani received the team with great hospitality and relief as if they were members of his family, knowing that he lives with his wife and children, but the way in which he received them indicates a friendship between him and the team members, and Al-Madhani told "Emirates Today" that he is waiting for their visit not only to perform routine medical examinations, but Also, because they are loving people who give him the required advice and care with a clear love and concern that makes him feel safe and comfortable.
The team members, in turn, emphasized that monitoring the health and psychological stability of the senior citizens registered in the home care system does not only mean a professional job they perform, but rather a humanitarian task that occupies their thinking and interests even outside working hours.
For her part, the director of the Center for Senior Citizens in Ajman, Hamda Al Shamsi, told Emirates Today that there are a set of goals that the mobile care unit contributes to achieving, the most important of which is the provision of various psychological, social and health services that an individual needs from senior citizens in his home and his family, and training the family of the individual Among the senior citizens and help them to take care of him in his home in a healthy and sound manner, as well as reduce the burdens of caring for the elderly and encourage him to care for him and adhere to his presence in his home, in addition to providing awareness and guidance services and practical training for families on how to care for senior citizens, and providing devices The various needs that senior citizens need to facilitate a person’s movement and residence in his home.
Al Shamsi said that a treatment plan is tailored to suit the condition of every elderly person in the vicinity of his family, as the mobile unit includes physical therapy devices to include a portable infrared device, electrical compresses of different sizes, and other physical therapy devices, and also includes pressure measuring devices, and measuring the percentage of sugar , Body temperature examination and many basic equipment for periodic checks of the elderly.
Al Shamsi reported that the number of people currently benefiting from the mobile care unit service amounts to 100 elderly people living in Ajman, while the number of those who have benefited from the services of the mobile home care unit since its launch in 2008 until today has reached 400 elderly people.
She explained that the mobile unit service is provided daily according to a plan and a schedule prepared in advance, as well as on occasion, sometimes to meet the urgent needs of the elderly, pointing to the coverage of 7 to 8 visits a day.