How does CLICK give the elderly community a new lease of life?
Getting older can come with lots of challenges. Health can begin to fail, loneliness can set in and financial worries can grow. All too often, quality of life begins to deteriorate.
CLICK helps to alleviate these issues by ensuring its members feel integrated and engaged in their community, so that they never need feel alone. From keep fit classes to beauty treatments, from lectures to workshops, CLICK’s Day Centres give members a whole host of reasons to feel enthusiastic and positive about every day. But even more than that, it’s the community of friendship and solidarity that CLICK’s members value the most, together with the nutritious hot meals they share together.
And for those wishing to be creative and earn some money, CLICK’s SAVI programme employs them to create craft kits, tablecloths and tapestries which are sold throughout the wider community. Participants receive a salary, companionship and a feeling of empowerment.
Holocaust Survivors have their own meeting place at CLICK called Café Europa where they feel at complete ease amongst others who’ve shared similar experiences.
And for housebound elderly, CLICK’s Virtual Technology Programme transforms lives. Video conferencing equipment enables them to link up ‘live’ with the Day Centres and participate in real-time activities taking place from singalongs to meditation to language classes. It allows these housebound elders to bring the community experience into their own home and feel a sense of belonging that many haven’t felt in years.
Every story matters
MEET HANNA
Hanna Fishelowitz is 93-years-old and lives in Hod Hasharon. She is a Holocaust Survivor and has been living alone since her husband died 9 years ago. Hanna has always been happy and sociable but has felt overwhelming loneliness since losing her husband. It’s the companionship and stimulation of CLICK which makes every day worth living.
