Home Care Support

Services for Senior

Citizens
Senior Citizen Day Center, Brgy.
I, San Francisco, ADS

Ms. Glory Joyce B. Almine, RSW

Can anyone explain this to
me?

“From Caring in the

Community to Caring
by the Community”
2 MAJOR CONCEPTS
1. COMMUNITY
2. CARE
What is community?

 A group of people who live in the

same area
 A group of people who have the
same interests, religion, race
What is Care?
 The effort made to do
something correctly, safely
or without causing damage.
 The effort to do something
to keep someone healthy
What is HOME CARE
SUPPORT SERVICES ON
SENIOR CITIZENS?
-a community based strategy that
involved senior citizens, their families,
neighborhood and communities to
take effective steps to enhance their
care giving capacity for the sick, frail and
bedridden senior citizens.
Through what?

Capability Building
Mobilization
-It also promotes healthy and
harmonious familial relationship
between the senior citizens and their
family/ kinship carers through the
provision of community - based
services.
-A home care volunteer provides
assistance in activities of daily
living such as bathing, grooming
and dressing, assistance in meal
preparation and eating, assist in
taking medicines
-The volunteers also serve as
social support, companion and
provide recreational and
socialization activities as well as
demonstrate to proper care and
management of the elderly.
What are the Objectives?

General:
Establish a quality care for the
sick, frail, bedridden senior citizens
in their own homes through their
family/kinship carers and homecare
volunteers .
Specific:
1.Develop a variety / package of
caregiving services for senior
citizens who have difficulty in
performing activities of daily
living due to old age and
ailments

2. Capacitate volunteers to plan

and deliver home care support
services to the senior citizens in
their own homes
Specific:
3. Enhance the capabilities of
implementing LGUs/POs, senior
citizens organizations in the
delivery of services to home care
beneficiaries
4. Encourage active participation
of the family in establishing and
sustaining programs and
services for the senior citizens;
5. Raise public
awareness and concern
on the needs and
aspirations of the senior
citizens
Legal Bases
 The 1987 Philippine Constitution
Article XV, Section IV-The Family

“It is the duty of the family to take

care of its older person members
while the State, may design program
of social security for them.”
Legal Bases
 The 1987 Philippine Constitution
Article XIII, Section II- Health
“The state shall adopt an integrated and
comprehensive approach to health
development which shall endeavor to make
essential goods, health and other social
services available to all people at affordable
cost. These shall be priority for the needs of
the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled,
women and children.”
LEGAL BASES
 Republic Act No. 7876 – An Act
Establishing a Senior Citizens Center in
all Cities and Municipalities of the
Philippines, and Appropriating Funds
Therefore

 Republic Act No. 7432 of 1991 – An Act

to Maximize Contribution of Senior
Citizens to Nation Building, Grant
Benefits and Special Privileges and For
Other Purposes
 Republic Act No. 9257 of 2003 – An Act
Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges
to Senior Citizens

 Republic Act 9994 - AN ACT GRANTING

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES TO
SENIOR CITIZENS, FURTHER AMENDING
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7432, AS AMENDED,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "AN ACT TO
MAXIMIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SENIOR
CITIZENS TO NATION BUILDING, GRANT
BENEFITS AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES"
Target Clientele
A.Primary Beneficiaries (senior
Citizens)
A.1. 60 years old and above who are
frail, sick, bedridden or with disability that
have difficulty in performing activities of daily
living due to physical limitations and old age.

A. 2. In need of care for a certain

period of time due to physical and mental
conditions
What is…
• Bedridden Senior Citizen
-refer to SC who are unable to care
and protect themselves and unable
to perform activities of daily living
due to an illness, physical and or
mental disability. They are forced in
bed due to their illness or
condition.
What is…
• Frail Senior Citizen
-refer to SC who are unable to
care and protect themselves
and unable to perform activities
of daily living due to an illness,
physical and or mental disability.
What is…
• Abandoned Senior Citizen
-refer to a senior citizen who
has no means of meeting basic
needs, whose family had
deserted him/her hence,
appropriate care, protection
and support are not met.
What is…
• Neglected Senior Citizen
-refer to a senior citizen
whose basic needs for
survival have been
deliberately unattended or
inadequately attended by
his/her family.
Target Clientele
B. Secondary beneficiaries:

B.1. Family Carers who lack

skills/capacity to provide quality care to senior
citizens

B.2. Home Care volunteers who are

willing to share their time, skills and
resources to care for the abandoned,
neglected, frail and disabled senior citizens
What is…

• FAMILY CARER
-immediate family member
who looks after the sick, frail,
and/or bed ridden SC.
(daughter/son/brother)
What is…

• KINSHIP CARER
-relative of the SC who takes
care of him/her but lives in a
separate house.
What is…
• HOME CARE VOLUNTEER
-non-salaried trained amd duly
recognized by the LGU who
serves and is willing ang
interested to commit time,
resources and talent to care for
the sick, frail and bed ridden sc
in the community .
 Project Components
1.SOCIAL PREPARATION

This entails activities that would initiate

interest and participation among concerned
entities at different levels – provincial, city,
municipal, barangay as well as other Gos,
NGOs, civic and faith based groups, and
academe to generate commitment and
involvement in the implementation of the
project.
 Project Components
2. CAPABILITY BUILDING

Conduct of trainings, skills

enhancement on the care and
management of senior citizens, team
building activities as well as value
formation sessions to families,
community volunteers and service
providers
 Project Components
3. HELPING PLAN
A helping plan shall be formulated
by the volunteer together with the clients
his/her family and the multi-disciplinary
team members. The LGU social worker
shall monitor the implementation of the
helping plan through the volunteers
 Project Components
4. PROVISION OF INTERVENTION/SOCIAL
SERVICES

Based on the helping plan, the sick, frail

and bedridden senior citizens shall be
provided with the following interventions as
needed per assessment: Home Care, Respite
Services, Physical Fitness program, Kinship
care, palliative Care and Spiritual Services
Aspects of Home Care

Psychosocial
Aspect
Health

Personal Nutrition
Care
 Project Components
4.1. Home care –
4.1.1. personal care: assistance
in personal hygiene, changing bed
sheet, wound care, assistance in
eating
 Project Components
4.1.2. Nutrition: demonstration of meal
preparation, delivering food, feeding as
needed, planning meals

4.1.3. Health: assistance with self-

administered medications, exercise and
mobility and caring for the incontinent
 Project Components
4.1.4. Psychosocial aspect of
caregiving: provision of regular
breaks through respite care, stress
management, provision of a
listening ear, social and emotional
support
 Project Components
4.2. Respite Services – the provision of relief to
the family carer from the demands of their roles
as carers by providing temporary care and
support services in caring of the senior citizens.

4.3. Physical Fitness Program – this will be

introduced in the community at least once a week
in coordination with the existing federation of
senior citizens. This aims to keep them physically
fit to be able to carry out day – to-day activity.
 Project Components
4.4. Kinship Care – encourage
the kin or relatives of the
sick/frail/weak/ bedridden senior
citizen who have no place to
stay to take care of them
 Project Components
4.5. Palliative Care – services designed to
provide relief of symptoms that interfere
with quality of life when treatments given
do not respond to the illness:
Affirming that dying is a normal process
Integrates the psychological and spiritual
aspects of care
Bereavement counseling
 Project Components
5. PROVISION OF TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE

This will be provided by Central office

staff to Field Office who will in turn provide
needed technical assistance to LGUs through
the project implementation. Provision of
technical assistance will be extended through
coaching, mentoring and skills enhancement.
 Institutional Arrangements
FIELD OFFICE (FO)

1. Conduct consultation with LGUs to determine their

interest, cooperativeness, capability and commitment to
implement the project;
2. Conduct the required capability building activities of
LGUs, NGOs and other GOs, Coordinator and Home
Care Volunteers
3. Monitor/evaluate and document project implementation
4. License and accredit caregivers
5. Submit regular report to the Central Office
6. Provide venue for the recognition/awards to volunteers,
etc.
 Institutional Arrangements
PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

1. Plan and carry out activities for sustainability of the

project;
2. Generate, mobilize and access resources’
3. Assist in developing training module design
4. Act as resource person during capability building
activities; and
5. Provide continuous support in the implementation of
the project
 Institutional Arrangements
LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT

1. Provide administrative support such as providing

incentives e.g. transportation fare, allowance or pocket
money to coordinators, volunteers for visiting the
clients, recognition, awards, etc. and’
2. Pass/enact local legislation or resolution for the
adoption of the Home Care Support Services as a
regular program of the LGU thru the MSWDO in
partnership with OSCA
 Institutional Arrangements
PROVINCIAL/CITY/MUNICIPAL SOCIAL WELFARE
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

1. Identify project site, coordinators and home care

volunteers
2. Identify, assess qualified beneficiaries of the project
3. Implement and supervise the day to day operation of
the project involving the following:
Act as immediate “supervisor” of the project in their own
community
Monitor the project through visitation and following up helping
plan
Establish network
Submit report to DSWD FO
 Institutional Arrangements
COORDINATOR

1. Conduct survey of frail, sick, bedridden

older person
2.Monitor and coordinate the activities of
volunteers
3.Refer family carers to appropriate
agency/person for possible assistance and
4.Coordinate/submit reports to the local social
worker
 Institutional Arrangements
HOME CARE VOLUNTEERS AND FAMILY KINSHIP
CARER

1. Provide care to sick, bedridden, frail, neglected,

abandoned senior citizens or those with disability
2. Conduct awareness – raising about the project in
the community
3. Provide respite services to the family carers to
prevent burnout and
4. Seek assistance for respite services through the
coordinator
Thank you…
“To care for those who once cared for us is
one of the highest honor”