10 old age homes working in Punjab

These homes provide shelter, food, healthcare and recreational facilities.

LAHORE: Ten old age homes and 55 daycare centres are working in the province to ensure facilities to elderly people, including working women and their young children.

A senior official of the Punjab Social Welfare and Baitul Mal Department on Sunday said the government was giving top priority to help and care to elderly people and working women. He said the department’s first old age home was established in 1975 under the name of “Aafiat” in Lahore. He said the homes which had been established in Lahore, included Old Age Happy Homes at Azmat Chowk Green Town, The Senior Citizen Foundation of Pakistan at DHA, Darul Kafala (Old age home) at Bhatta Chowk and Aafiyat Old age home.



“These homes are providing quality services, including shelter, food, healthcare and recreational facilities, to old and infirm people of society,” he said. All such institutions have a capacity to accommodate total 300 people (50 residents per institution) at a time, the official said.

He said the Punjab government was working to provide modern facilities at old homes. A centre for rehabilitation for differently abled people had been set up at Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital, Muzaffargarh while a similar centre had also been established at Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Hospital Badian Road, Lahore.

“The Punjab government will also set up such centres in other cities,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 22^nd, 2017.