Age Concern - Waitaki

About

Age Concern is a community organisation that advocates for the older generation of society. We provide advocacy, meals on wheels, and other services.

Story

SERVICES:
- Support Services, Information, Advice and Personal Advocacy: Responding in person/phone to a range of queries from older people and their carers eg. Advising where to obtain a service, what is available. Providing confidential support and empowerment to older people.
- Information Resources: Providing written materials eg. pamphlets and resources eg. videos and books.
Visiting Services: Providing volunteer visitors who make regular visits to socially isolated older people in their homes.
- Social Activities: Holding events that provide social connection between older people eg. drop in centres
- Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention Service: Providing confidential support, advocacy and information for people facing elder abuse and neglect.
- Transport: Providing a transport service to places such as clinics or shopping centres

- In-home Support: Referring on to recommended services (eg. trade services) that can provide for the necessary maintenance work to be done in client's homes. Referring on volunteer workers to undertake small jobs for older people eg. gardening
- Food Services: Providing in-home food services, such as Meals on Wheels or frozen dinners.
- Sale or loan of equipment: wheelchairs; scooters, and other adaptive equipment
- Representation: Providing representation and advice on older peoples' issues to local influential groups eg. District Councils.

Mission

Age Concern promotes wellbeing, rights, respect and dignity for older people.

He mahi mō ngā tika me te oranga o te hunga kaumātua.