PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WORKSHOP

In 2006, in partnership with the Adler Institute and funded by the HAIFA FOUNDATION, the Maccabi Daycare Center for the Elderly initiated a series of ten 90-minute group discussions examining relationships in seniors' daily lives. Among the sensitive topics broached by the pilot group's 15 members were their feelings of personal isolation; how to cope with a reality that the individual neither wants nor deserves; the difficulty of asking for or accepting

help from adult children; and much more. The current proposal calls for a revised version of the project to be provided to a second cohort. Goals are to provide group members with the insights and skills to safeguard, develop and strengthen existing relationships between themselves and their friends at the Daycare Center, their children, and their sons- and daughters-in-law.  

THE RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY

In 2006, in the framework of the Daycare Center program's daily discussion circle, and with funding by the HAIFA FOUNDATION, a series of ten 90-minute lectures on the legal rights of the elderly was presented to 40 seniors by jurist Dr. Israel Doron, an expert in the field of Elder Law in Israel. Adult children of Daycare Center members were so impressed that they have asked the Center to provide them with a similar program. Topics to be addressed:  elderly persons' legal and human right to protection from emotional or other neglect or abuse; the legal obligations of a concerned or care-taking adult child; and an individual's right to die with dignity.     

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