About
- We aim to serve destitute elderlies with love and affection, and impart the feeling in them that they are being taken care of their own family members, and not strangers.
- We look after the elderlies’ mental and physical needs, both, and make every effort to ensure that they are always comfortable and happy.
- We optimise the physical and mental health of elderlies by ensuring that the environment available to them is caring and nourishing at all times.
Unfortunate Condition of Elderly Parents
As children, our life begins in the form of pliable clay in the hands of our parents. Sadly, the same parents, who gave shape to our minds and nourished it with love and concern, are seen as a burden by the children after they have grown up and started their own families – and this way of thinking is becoming increasingly popular in today’s culture of preferring nuclear families over joint ones.
So, it happens that in the time of old age, just when the senior parents require somebody to take care of them owing to poor health, they are asked to leave the house. Typically, the situation is such that since they have nowhere to go, such parents often have to live on the streets, and become reduced to the status of beggars. Many elderlies die owing to a combination of reasons: exposure to the elements, starvation, and poor health.
To address this situation and to provide a loving and nourishing environment where elderlies can be taken care of in the same environment that they would find at home in the company of affectionate children and grandchildren, Nesam Old Age Home was instituted in 2022.
Role of Nesam
Nesam identifies elderlies abandoned by their children, and using sponsorship from well-meaning elements and philanthropists in the society, rehabilitates them in our home, and gives them shelter, food, medical attention, and loving care.
The very fact that there is somebody available to care for them, to look after their needs, to whom they can tell their problems, fills the hearts of these elderlies with great joy and satisfaction.
And, it has been our experience that, in the case of ailing or infirm elderlies, once their psychological burdens are lifted from their heart, their physical health also improves noticeably.
The key difference that we make at Nesam is that we do not allow the elderlies in our care to obtain the feeling that they are getting fed but are unable to contribute in return in any way. It has been observed that this unwanted feeling is the primary factor which gives the elderlies an unnecessary guilty conscience.
To address this issue, we have envisaged a scheme where the volunteers in the home are required to arrange for talk sessions given by the elderlies, in which they share the interesting life experiences acquired by them over the course of their life. These planned sessions would be attended not only by the staff at Nesam but also by visitors, and are expected to inculcate an atmosphere of positivity and mutual trust between the staff and the inmates. This way, elderlies would be provided with a means to boost their self-esteem.
Also, to ensure that the elderlies remain in a positive frame of mind and that they are instilled with a sense of self-worth, we envisage the prevalence of an environment where their advice would be consulted before the commencement of any new activities in the home.
Nesam Old Age Home is an old age home for senior citizens who need support owing to an absence of a dedicated caring mechanism at home, or for taking care of the parents of those who have settled abroad.
- No. 4, Malligai Street, Vivekananda Nagar, Thirumullaivoyal, Chennai – 600053
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