"Stand with your feet together, your arms hanging down at your sides, and look ahead......" Under the leadership of the social worker of Shuangbai in Suidong Street, the elders carefully studied Baduanjin and carefully followed each movement.
In addition to leading the elderly to exercise, fall prevention is also an important purpose of fitness exercise. On April 9, the social workers of Suidong Street carried out a tea party with the theme of "Caring for the Sunset Red, Striving to Be a 'Tumbler'" for the elderly in the second phase of the Nanwan Resettlement Housing and Miaotou Resettlement Housing, and improved the awareness of fall prevention among the elderly in the resettlement area, popularized the knowledge of fall prevention, and reduced the occurrence of fall accidents among the elderly by broadcasting fall prevention promotional videos, case sharing, explanation of fall prevention knowledge, and fall rescue scenario simulation.
"We need to be aware of falling prevention, exercise, develop good habits, and keep the environment clean and tidy, so that our lives can be better and healthier. At the tea party, the elder Granny Zhang shared her views.
There are 3 elderly resettlement houses in Sui Tung Street, including Miaotou Community Elderly Housing I and II and Nanwan Community Elderly Housing for transitional resettlement of elderly people aged 70 and special groups, with a total of 173 elderly residents.
Under the overall deployment of the Suidong Sub-district Office and the guidance of the Sub-district Public Service Office, the "Double Hundred Project" social work station of Suidong Street went deep into the resettlement houses of Nanwan Community and Miaotou Community, bringing together the multiple forces of the "Five Societies" to provide a variety of regular services, such as Baduanjin fitness every Wednesday, tea parties and birthday parties on the first and fifteenth days of each month, Cantonese opera tours, watching nostalgic movies and other regular services; So far, 28 phases of 33 services have been carried out, benefiting more than 2,000 people.
For example, the volunteer safety inspection team is responsible for comprehensively inspecting the public facilities, environmental sanitation and fire safety of the resettlement housing, and discovering and solving potential safety hazards in a timely manner;
At the same time, social workers set up incentives to encourage the elderly to actively participate, turning passive into active participation, relying on the "Warm Suidong Community Charity Fund" to set up a "points store" in the resettlement house, where the elderly can earn points by participating in activities and volunteer services to exchange for daily necessities and convenient services.
In the next step, the social work station of the "Double Hundred Project" on Suidong Street will continue to gather the diverse forces of the "Five Societies", take the community as the basic platform, rely on the strength of social work professionals, use community social organizations as service carriers, closely integrate the community volunteer service team, and fully integrate social welfare and charity resources as a booster to jointly promote the coordinated development of the environment, life and social circles in the resettlement area.
Southern + reporter Huang Chuxuan
Correspondent: Xie Peiling
【Author】 Huang Chuxuan
[Source] Southern Press Media Group Southern + client