Inclusion

Solita OkureFounder & Executive Director How to Safeguard Elderly People This Festive Season The festive season is typically a time for reconnecting with family and friends and for celebration in our communities. However, for elderly people, it can also be a high-risk period. Their feelings of loneliness are heightened, their experience of neglect and isolation intensified, and the likelihood of their abuse is even greater. These acts are perpetrated by members of their families and communities, either intentionally to exploit elderly people’s vulnerabilities or unintentionally due to a lack of awareness, differences in age, and varying expectations and needs between the elderly people and those around them.So, this festive season, what can we all do to help combat loneliness, neglect,…