OUR SERVICES
We at MEF pride ourselves in the services as stated below:
- Make healthcare and non-healthcare services acceptable, accessible and affordable to elderly persons through community set-ups, health facilities, home-based services, enrollment into health insurance schemes and other collaborations
- Champion advocacies and galvanize policies for rights and care of older persons
- Manage geriatric/aging program through public health and global health approach to address non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases (especially HIV, TB, Malaria and COVID) through local/international collaborations and partnerships
- Institute and manage geriatric/healthy-aging clinics in all tiers of hospitals through partnerships
- Support education, training and capacity building of pre-service and in-service service providers in geriatrics and care of older persons through partnerships with education and training institutions
- Conduct research on aging and other research related to elderly persons
- Conduct health education and awareness creation on geriatric conditions and management through community collaborations to increase health seeking behaviors among the elderly
- Improve Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) among older persons
- Provide psychosocial, legal, economic empowerment, and financial management services for elderly persons
- Provide older persons’ Nutrition Intervention Plan (ONI-plan) to prevent and manage malnutrition among elderly persons
- Prevent and intervene on elder abuse and other safety concerns for the elderly persons
- Provide clothing and shelter care and recreational activities for older persons
- Prevent and intervene on Gender based violence and widows right among the elderly.
- Address and intervene on family conflict mitigation against elderly persons
- Support caregivers of elderly person to be healthy, safe and stable to care for older persons
- Secure local, national and international partnerships to manage grants and funding for care of elderly persons
- Support surgical services as needed by elderlies
- Manage medical and non-medical facilities/institutions and equipment related to care of the elderly
- Take mission to and through the elderly persons
- Advocate for care and rights of older persons in community, national and global scales
- Manage assets and charity projects of interest to improve quality of life of older persons
- Manage and provide every other and any other services and activities related to elderly persons