Laudium organisations host Mental Health awareness for aged
Laudium's elderly citizens were taught about wills and estate planning, among other things.
Laudium organisations recently hosted an event to celebrate the Mental Health and Older Person’s Month.
The event was organised by Laudium Care Services for the Aged (LCSA ) and Laudium Mental Health Society at The Memon Foundation hall.
More than 400 elderly citizens from the area attended the event organised under the theme, providing a safe place for the elderly through information sharing.
ActionSA councillor in attendance Prajay Ramjee said the event was very insightful as the elderly people were easily targeted by criminals because of their vulnerability.
“The elderly are very vulnerable in our society. I have seen elderly family members barely kept alive in order for their kids and grandkids to have access to their pension fund. They are often seen as a burden to the family, so initiatives like this one help the elderly to grow old gracefully and with dignity,” Ramjee said.
The councillor said he has seen firsthand the challenges the elderly citizens faced daily during his days running a security and community development company in Laudium for seven years.
“We need to act as one to build, with great urgency, a more just and inclusive society by addressing key challenges, such as inequality, discrimination, healthcare and disability rights, and a lack of effective empowerment systems.”
Ramjee was asked by the community to initiate a vegetable garden at the LCSA in order to make the project sustainable. The organisation is also making crafts for sale.
He said initiatives such as this one are close to his heart hence his attendance to help the elderly citizens the best way he knew how.
Topics that were discussed during the event were state pensions, grants, wills and estate planning, Alzheimer’s and dementia, rebates on rates and tips to avoid banking scams.
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