Be Concerned and Help the Aged

Hello, my name is Alefyah. I appreciate you taking your time to look at my blog.

Encouraging the elderly generation to get involved with their community, and getting the community to get involved with them is not an easy task. Yet Age Uk is a determined charity. The two charities (Help the Aged, and Age Concern) only combined in 2009 and have helped over 5 million (!) older people. However, they can’t continue to do it alone. Age Uk need our help, once you’ve had read my blog I hope you will feel inclined to volunteer, or are at least more aware about the problems old people face.

Everyone gets old, and as both mental and physical illness starts to set in, it gets increasingly difficult to communicate with the outside world and keep up with the younger generations. Sorting out legal documents, bills etc. is particularly affected by this because a lot of these documents are going online. Age Uk helps older people keep up with everyday necessities.

Their workers dedicate their lives to the elder generation in the hope that when they reach that age themselves, the charity will still be around to benefit them. They work nationally and sometimes even internationally in less economically developed countries such as India and Haiti, and prefer to view older people not as a group, but as individuals with their own particular needs. Their workers have a vision to allow the elderly to be equal citizens with equal rights, they aim want to increase the quality of later life by providing them with the opportunities for the health and social care that they need. This is now being  well demonstrated with the new idea of having an MP dedicated to pensioners, something Age UK are currently fighting for.

We can help by: volunteering at an Age Uk shop in your local area; donating as much or as little as you can; supporting the elderly within your own community. Please feel free to visit their website, for more information and dates to allow you to get involved. http://www.ageuk.org.uk/

I hope that this has not only raised your awareness about older people, but about Age Uk, and what they do, and how we can help. Once again, thank you for taking the time to read my blog.