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Dada-Dadi many programs help to improve the lives of older adults::
Key dadadadi Programs - End
Objective of the Aim
Benefits
Checkups – To help seniors
with limited income and resources find benefits programs
that help with prescription drug costs, rent, energy bills,
food, and more.
Benefits
Enrolment– To help seniors
get enrolled in key Central and state benefits programs.
DadaDadi Centre
for Healthy Aging – To be a
significant, resource centre for professionals interested in
developing and implementing healthy aging programs such as
health promotion, falls prevention, disease prevention, and
chronic disease self-management and to organise, subscribe
and undertake community service projects in the interest of
objects of DadaDadi.
Diffusion of
Innovations & Information –
To conduct research, hold seminars and conference, organize
and promote exhibitions, shows and other activities for
furtherance of this cause and to fund, maintain, manage
libraries, educations and cultural institutions, publish
charts, catalogues, directories, periodicals, leaflets,
statistics, magazines, journals books and other
publications, and circulate these.
Health education
programme – To promote
healthy aging through consumer education campaigns on
medical conditions affecting older persons.
DadaDadi
Medicare Matters – to have
a community-based education program for helping people with
Medicare Policies learn about and enrol & drive optimum
benefits out of these.
DadaDadi Centre
for Benefits Outreach and Enrolment
– To enrol seniors with limited means and children of such
seniors with disabilities into the benefits programs for
which they are eligible.
DadaDadi Centre
for Family Friends – To
mobilize older adults as resources to families who have
children with special needs in communities nationwide.
Respectability
– To make and to help
non-profit organizations make more effective use of Older
Adults in their community-based effort.
Senior Centre
DadaDadi Accreditation Program
– To benchmark and to provide recognition that a senior
centre is meeting its mission in a nationally accepted
professional fashion.
Senior Community
Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
– To provide training and employment opportunities to
low-income Older Adults.
Senior
Environmental Employment (SEE)
– To support the environmental & other
such projects and the older workers.
Stay at Home
Profitably – To encourage
the appropriate use of reverse mortgages/Paying Guest to
help older adults get long-term care services at home.
Wisdom Works
– To foster civic engagement among older adults through
self-directed teams.
Old Age Home
– To build and operate Old Age Homes, Dispensaries,
Hospitals, Health Clinics & Health Camps and to support
other organisations for the same.
Strategic
Alliances – To forge
Strategic Alliances, wherever possible, for improving the
lives of older Indians and enabling them enjoy Old Age.
Legal Aid
– To collect and obtain all information, on matters
affecting the Older Adults, make representations to various
authorities and to appear before any authorities in the
interest of, protection and betterment of the Older Adults
and to publish and circulate these and any other matters to
members, media, Government agencies and others.
Advocacy
– To indulge in persuasive
communication with the Government, Local or Public
Authorities, other societies, legal entities, institutions,
organisations, corporate bodies or individuals, in India or
abroad to secure benefits for Older Adults.
Social Functions
– To celebrate festivals and to organise social, religious
and cultural functions for the Older Adults.
Front Runner
– To initiate/start by
itself such projects, homes, services, programs or any other
activities, where others are reluctant to initiate, start or
continue, and to satisfactorily deliver and fulfil the aims
and objectives of DadaDadi.
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