Improving Quality of Life
WHO defines quality of life through
six domains
QOL
Physical Health
Psychological Health
Level of Independence
Social Relationships
Environmental features
Spiritual Concerns
Domains
1. Physical Health
2. Psychological state
3. Level of independence
4. Social Relationships
5. Environmental features
6. Spiritual concerns
Activities that address these domains
Home based health-check-ups
- Disbursement of medicines and supplements
- Virtual OPDs
- Referral to higher facilities for treatment
- One on one Counselling with the elderly
- Following mhGAP tool to understand their mental wellbeing
- Talking and sensitizing the family members
- Providing assistive devices to the elderly
- Providing basic necessities such as diapers, ration, etc.
- Providing multi-vitamins to improve physical strength to move around
- Community level meetings
- Encouraging youth engagement
- Creating volunteers Inter-generational bonding
- Putting up IEC and BCC messages in the community to create an understanding of the elderly’s need of the
people
- Income generation activities
- Home visits, for building enabling environment within the families
- Counselling of the elderly and their family members
- Providing assistive devices to reduce their dependence and improvefreedom
- Coming together as a group in group meetings and sharing their beliefs
- Singing, Lunching and engaging with each other