Diapers for palliative grandparents

Today, almost 740 thousand single elderly people live in Ukraine. Of these, only 200 thousand receive social assistance and support. Others survive on their own. But besides loneliness, elderly people are faced with diseases that forever confine them to bed. These are incurable diseases that make a person a palliative patient.

Today, almost 740 thousand single elderly people live in Ukraine. Of these, only 200 thousand receive social assistance and support. Others survive on their own. But besides loneliness, elderly people are faced with diseases that forever confine them to bed. These are incurable diseases that make a person a palliative patient.

Kharkiv Regional Charitable Fund "Social Assistance Service" has been implementing the project "Palliative care at home" since 2011. During this time, we supported many lonely elderly people, providing them with social, medical, and psychological services. In addition to the social support of grandparents who cannot get out of bed or leave the house, we give them personal hygiene products: diapers, disposable, wet wipes, etc. These things help them, firstly, to live a better life, secondly, they support their psychological health, preventing them from falling into the abyss of helplessness and shame for their own weakness. Thirdly, the prices for hygiene products are very high and can’t afford the lonely old people who receive a meager pension.

Today we have the opportunity together to help those who don’t have children and grandchildren, who are left alone with their illness and loneliness. Those who, unfortunately, are the most vulnerable and powerless in the country. Any amount of your charitable donation will be able to maintain the quality of life of a palliative patient at a level worthy of life, not existence!