{"id":2822,"date":"2017-06-02T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T03:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T03:31:30","slug":"nishchint-service-elderly-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/nishchint-service-elderly-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishchint \u2013 Services for the elderly in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nishchint&#8217;s\u00a0area of work is the lonely elderly of Mumbai. These are typically financially independent elders who stay alone or with their equally old spouse, who\u2019s children have moved overseas and settled there, or basically live away from them for whatever reason.\u00a0Due to physical deterioration and lack of confidence, the elderly\u2019s lifestyle has changed by being restricted to their house. They are reasonably well-off and can afford maids who technically do everything a maid would. But the place of a daughter or son in their life is missing. We try and fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volunteering for Nishchint<u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>We have adopted about 13-14 elderly within and outside Mumbai (not-financially) and engage with them to alleviate their loneliness through love care and companionship. Trying to get them back to their hobbies, improving their social participation, help them with banking, any health issues, issues related to mobility, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to expand a bit now create a team of volunteers who can reach more lonely elderly in the city and provide them with this kind of warmth, love and care and attend to any exigencies in their life. We need the help of volunteers who can adopt some couples and make their life enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Each Volunteer \/ set of volunteers will be be adopting one more elderly couples and conduct the following for the adopted elderly:<\/p>\n<p>1. Visit them once a forthnight and call twice a week for casual conversations and chit chat.<br \/>\n2. Get them back to their hobbies.<br \/>\n3. Take them out once in a month , say for movies, plays, music concerts, dinners or to their relatives place. Basically get them to start socialising again.<br \/>\n4. Take them for regular walks whenever the volunteer visits the elderly<br \/>\n5. Assist them with technology like whatsapp, emails, skype with their children.<br \/>\n6. In case of any health issues, take them to the doctor \/ hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Briefing and short training before adoption will be given<\/li>\n<li>Location will be at the elderly\u2019s home<\/li>\n<li>Visit elderly\u2019s house once once a fortnight<\/li>\n<li>Telephone calls once a week<\/li>\n<li>Organising a social activity for them once a month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EXPECTATION FROM THE VOLUNTEER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caring, loving and compassionate people<\/li>\n<li>Open, extrovert personality, ability to bond quickly and gain trust.<\/li>\n<li>Patience In dealing with the elderly<\/li>\n<li>About 7 hours in a month (excluding travel time if any)<\/li>\n<li>Gaining trust and bonding with elderly people takes time, hence willingness to commit for a minimum of 6 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CONTACT DETAILS :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VAISHALI P CHAVAN &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:vaishali@nishchint.org\">vaishali@nishchint.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9820467802 \/ 8369633279<\/p>\n<p>Interested volunteers can mail the following details to the above mentioned email ID:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Address\/Location convenient in Mumbai<\/li>\n<li>email, Phone number<\/li>\n<li>Age<\/li>\n<li>About yourself<\/li>\n<li>Past volunteering done with elderly<\/li>\n<li>Any experience of dealing with elderly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2823\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-image-2823 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1.png 703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elder people being engaged by volunteers<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2824\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-image-2824 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2.png 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elder enjoying with volunteers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishchint&#8217;s\u00a0area of work is the lonely elderly of Mumbai. These are typically financially independent elders who stay alone or with their equally old spouse, who\u2019s children have moved overseas and settled there, or basically live away from them for whatever reason.\u00a0Due to physical deterioration and lack of confidence, the elderly\u2019s lifestyle has changed by being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[136],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}