Improving elderly care in Jamaica
SummaryThis project will provide critical medical equipment and furnishings to Jamaican senior homes in order to increase quality of care and promote healthy aging among residents. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
As Jamaica’s elderly population has ballooned, public poor houses have increasingly served as primitive nursing homes. “These facilities, originally designed to promote infection control and immunization, lack the necessary equipment and supplies to appropriately care for their aging residents,” said Andrea Arkin, Program Officer. Global Links will provide carefully selected medical equipment and furnishings to prioritized senior care homes in order to improve care for residents.
Activities
By working strategically to collect, refurbish, and ship targeted medical supplies and furnishings to Jamaican senior homes, Global Links will drastically improve care for some of Jamaica’s most vulnerable elderly.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $25
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $21,975
Total Funding Goal: $22,000
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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
By updating Jamaican senior care facilities, this project will serve as a model for Global Links and other relief organizations in supporting Jamaica and other countries faced with an increasing public health burden due to aging.
Project Message
“Port Antonio is in one of the poorest parts of Jamaica. The senior home needs to be able to serve its population with dignity.”.
- Dr. Jeremy Knight, Port Antonio Regional Health Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Angela Garcia
Deputy Director
4809 Penn Ave. #2
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
4123613424
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Global Links
4809 Penn Ave #2
Pittsburgh,
PA
15224
United States
1-412-361-3424
http://www.globallinks.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Jamaica
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Jamaica, read the Human Development Report on Jamaica or the Wikipedia entry for Jamaica.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 11, 2009
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