Russian
The Family Elderly Home "Spring"
In the town of Olonets (Karelia republick) a Family Elderly Home for the lonely, unable for self-service due to elderly age and illnesses have been created.
The Public Organization Spring presents a project on working with the elderly. We need help very much, because we survive at personal expenses only, there isnt financing.
One can understand the necessity of founding different elderly homes small, family-like, where the old could live the rest of their days and feel at home to some extent as well, which is very important when you are old and helpless to face the fear of death and loneliness. The existing boarding elderly homes network, when a home provides care for, as a rule, hundreds of the elderly, doesnt allow to pay enough sincere interest to everyone. Its especially hard for the elderly, strangers to each other, to be forced to live together. A Family Elderly Home can lessen the number of patients, sharing a room, up to one and up to five in the center.
Three patients (76, 85, 88 years old) and a disabled woman live in the FEH Spring at present. They are seriously ill. A 81-year-old senior citizen lives in his apartment. He needs all day care, which we provide as far as possible. Due to the insufficient living conditions we cant receive him in our Home. Weve done much work for the year of our functioning: built a bath-house, stocked firewood, partly repaired the premises, granted on free of charge lease by Assumption of Saint Virgin Church in Olonets. There is much more to be done: we have no running water, no sewerage system, we need more stoves, we should make the premises comfortable and warm in winter, fix the car, which we have bought for our purposes. The old need a lot. We have no other vehicle to get to the policlinics or to the church.
Our patients need our Spring, but its so difficult for us to survive.
One can understand the necessity of founding different elderly homes small, family-like, where the old could live the rest of their days and feel at home to some extent as well, which is very important when you are old and helpless to face the fear of death and loneliness. The existing boarding elderly homes network, when a home provides care for, as a rule, hundreds of the elderly, doesnt allow to pay enough sincere interest to everyone. Its especially hard for the elderly, strangers to each other, to be forced to live together. A Family Elderly Home can lessen the number of patients, sharing a room, up to one and up to five in the center.
Three patients (76, 85, 88 years old) and a disabled woman live in the FEH Spring at present. They are seriously ill. A 81-year-old senior citizen lives in his apartment. He needs all day care, which we provide as far as possible. Due to the insufficient living conditions we cant receive him in our Home. Weve done much work for the year of our functioning: built a bath-house, stocked firewood, partly repaired the premises, granted on free of charge lease by Assumption of Saint Virgin Church in Olonets. There is much more to be done: we have no running water, no sewerage system, we need more stoves, we should make the premises comfortable and warm in winter, fix the car, which we have bought for our purposes. The old need a lot. We have no other vehicle to get to the policlinics or to the church.
Our patients need our Spring, but its so difficult for us to survive.