HOME FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS OF NARASIMPALLI

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PROFILE OF THE AREA:

Home for Senior Citizen, Narasimpalli village of Ananthapur district. The village has about 327 families have pucca houses constructed with small investment. The other 50 percent lies in make shift huts.

The economic condition of the people is very poor, with 85 percent of the population falling below the poverty line. The main occupation is agriculture. Most of the men and women work as daily wage labourers. The average income of the family ranges between Rs.6500 to Rs.9000 per month.

INFRASTRUCTURE

The building consists of 8 rooms. One is common hall and next to it is recreational and rest room and third one is kitchen cum store room. For recreational purpose a colour T.V. was placed in the recreational hall, on the request of the inmates. Spiritual pictures will be shown to the inmates to reconcile themselves from personal problems and also develop self confidence and faith in God. In addition, we have provide furniture, cots, beds with blankets, and necessary infrastructure required for the centre.

NUMBER OF INMATES

On the basis of the standard criteria adopted, 25 inmates were selected from the nearby villages. They were all from poor families and who actually need help. They are all 60 + years. In these centres there are 18 females and 07 males. Majority of the people belong to the SC and ST caste groups.

SERVICES PROVIDED

In the Home the grannies and granddads are being over 60 years of age. They have problems of defect of eye sight, development of immature cataract, partial deafness and joint pains. They were individually checked by Doctor and administered timely medicines to the grannies. Improvement in generally health has been observed. Provided mosquito nets, hot water and RO to the Senior Citizens.

i) Food

We are providing nutritious food for the grannies and grandads. Morning they are given break fast, tea and afternoon lunch and in the evening some of fruits and biscuits. Weekly 05 days providing eggs and provide non-veg on Sundays to the SENIOR CITIZENS.

ii) Therapy

With the advancing of age, most of our SENIOR CITIZENS cannot tolerate either extremes of heat or cold due to decreased vasculrity of the skin. Many of them have suffered not only from bodily pains but also due to poor vision. They occasionally have respiratory infection. Sisters have taken preventive measures by administering timely medicines and so on. The SENIOR CITIZENS are checked twice in a month by Medical Doctor. Providing Physiotherapy to some of the inmates as per their request.

iii) Recreational Activities

In Home most of the grannies and granddads had completely given up their recreational activities. After admission into this centre, everyday all of them mixes freely and starts chit-chatting. We provided T.V and Tape Recorder for recreational activities and library facility for literate inmates to read moral and spiritual books. T.T.D has also given set of books on religion, health and moral education.

V. ACTIVITIES AT THE CENTRE :

After prayer, yoga classes and will be supplied break-fast. Some of the grannies will helping in the kitchen. Some of them will engage in rope-making and leaf-plate making and in gardening. After completion lunch some of the grannies will take rest and reading the books and watching entertainment (TV) programs.

VI. ACHIEVEMENTS

On the basis of consulting with the grannies and grandads it was found that this centre caters the various needs of the inmates like :

a) Physical needs: Such as food, clothing, shelter etc.

b) Psychological needs : Facing loneliness, frustrations and other psychological problems and insecurity to cover these situations and encourage to move co-inmates eco-friendly.

c) Sociological needs : Such as recreational activities, religious activities and other cultural activities like gana bajana and singing songs etc., Organizing important events like Independence Day, Diwali and Dasara celebrations.

COVID-19 Related Activities

Apart from that RASS has taking all necessary steps to ensure that we are prepared well to face the challenges and threat posed by the growing pandemic of COVID-19 the Corona Virus especially concentrating in Senior Citizen Homes. With active support of volunteers and local administrations involved to prevent spread of the virus is to empower the senior citizens with the right information and taking precautions as per the advisories being issued by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt., of India and Govt., Andhra Pradesh. RASS has initiation several measures like: