"Home Care" service is one of the programs working
in Kazakhstani Heseds. Its main aim is to lighten lives of old and disabled
people, to enlarge the sphere of their activities. Besides help by cleaning
apartments, personal hygiene, and cooking, assistants try to reveal clients'
internal resources by giving them moral and psychological support. It
helps them to renew people's interest for life, desire to restore relations
with the outer world and their community.
Most of Hesed clients are lonely and sick people, though
medical certificate is not the only criteria for "Home Care"
service. Need for help is most important. But the main thing here is to
stop in time, because in the effort to relieve patients of their daily
cares assistants can easily destroy their personality. Special psychological
training helps workers to realize it.
The program provides training seminars for all workers of
the service. Thanks to it people constantly perfect their skills.
"Home Care" workers pay much attention to study
Judaism. It is through such people that national traditions are brought
back to the families of clients-Jews. Every call on a client is not a
formal visit, but a real help to a person who needs it body and soul.
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