PAKISTAN: Karachi Senior Citizens Forum Groups Attend To Ailing Aged

KARACHI, Pakistan (Senior Citizens Forum), November 29, 2007: VISITING AILING SENIORS is a programme promoted by Senior Citizens Forum of Karachi, reports Mr. Ali Raza Lakhani, Honorary Secretary of the Forum. Old age persons often become bedridden due to some serious diseases. Many such seniors live a miserable life. They rarely get proper medical treatment nor someone looks after their health. Consequently, they remain in bed for a long time and ultimately pass away in same condition. Such seniors can be motivated to get well and return to normal life if they are treated with love and affection, says the November newsletter of the Forum. If they are regularly visited and encouraged to fight disease, they may ultimately return to normal life. It is therefore necessary that such ailing old age persons are helped in the process of recovery. The SCF is now preparing teams of volunteers to visit the ailing persons at regular intervals. The groups of one or two will meet the ailing seniors and understand the type of sickness and its remedy. They will exchange stories, read newspapers or magazines, discuss important events and generally encourage them to fight disease and recover. The SCF has invited dedicated men and women social workers to join these teams of visitors, says Mr. Ali Raza T. Lakhani. Source: Senior Citizens Forum, Karachi