Dubai: In a move towards inclusion, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has formed a work team to provide comprehensive home-visit services to the elderly in the UAE as part of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Elderly Healthcare initiative.
The work team, headed by Dr Amal Al Jaziri, head of the elderly care unit at DHA’s primary health sector, comprises four doctors, six nurses, five physiotherapists, three administrators, two social workers and one dietician.
Elaborating on the programme, Eisa Al Maidour, DHA Director-General, said: “The DHA pays significant emphasis to its geriatric services and home-care is a fundamental part of that. DHA’s home-based programme is comprehensive and provides home-based preventive, curative, and rehabilitative services for the elderly. The formation of the work team will ensure provision of holistic home-care services to elderly patients in the UAE.”
Al Maidour added that the team will work in tandem with other government entities.
“The role of the work team will be to prepare detailed operational plans, to visit the elderly across the UAE and to provide geriatric services to them. The team will coordinate and cooperate with the concerned government entities in the field of elderly care across the UAE, identify and prepare a list of medical needs of the elderly population and make sure that such needs are provided,” he said.
