die in their loneliness
An alarming phenomenon that we are witnessing more and more recently, in which elderly Ariris find their deaths without anyone by their side and their bodies are only discovered in stages of decay, when the neighbors report bad smells.
This is a phenomenon that does not occur in any region of Israel, when in Haifa, in just one month, three bodies were discovered in a state of decay, on Ilanot Street, Arlozorov Street and Golomb Street.
The Zaka organization headed by Yehuda Meshi Zahav, They warned and continue to warn about the situation and appeal in every language of request and at every opportunity, especially to the neighbors, to make an effort and ask for the safety of the few people who live in their residential building. According to Meshi Zahav, "a minute a day can save lives and it's not a slogan, it's the reality and it prevents more horrific cases."
In the past year 2019, ZAKA volunteers handled about 10 difficult cases of finding the bodies of elderly people in their homes, in the Haifa area. 2020 is still halfway through and the number of bodies found only continues to rise.
The Chai Pa system checked what the role of welfare in the municipality is and what services and services it provides to this population.
Haifa Municipality gave a response to Haifa:
The municipality of Haifa invests great efforts and resources in order to locate every single elderly person living in the city. For this purpose, the municipality established a set of volunteers who maintain ongoing friendly contact with the individual residents known to the municipality and make sure that all their needs are met. At the same time, the municipality appeals with all the means at its disposal to every person and to all the various treatment factors operating in the community with a request to transfer to it information regarding every single person known to them, so that it is not left alone.
There is no welfare there is garbage
Apply it.
However, the State of Israel today sees welfare as an enemy and has decided, as part of a systematic neo-liberal shift, to practically eliminate welfare services in Israel.
* The terms of employment in Israel for a social worker in the welfare department include a load of hundreds and sometimes over a thousand applicants for each employee, when in many countries in the world a social worker handles no more than 15 people at a time.
* Part-time jobs and wretched employment conditions drive away many good people from this profession.
* Nowhere in the world is there and has never been a situation where everyone is reached everywhere, and this is for a very simple reason
You cannot force a person to receive social assistance. This is true in Israel and it is true in many places in the world.
* It is important to remember: in the second decade of the 21st century, many, many, many more people are living many, many more years. A long life necessarily always means an episode of living alone, after the spouse has passed away. That's the way it is, and it will only increase as life expectancy increases. Nothing will change that.
The law in Israel does not allow providing help in the field of welfare to those who are not interested in it. clear and smooth. If an old person or any person refuses to receive help - no agency has a way to reach him, no matter how effective he may be. Would you like help that you don't want to be forced on you?
Every word on behalf of the municipality and the welfare offices is a lie.
They don't apply, they don't call, they don't know about the elderly.
There is no such body of volunteers. What do you mean seniors 90 years old and older.... all that matters is paying the inflated property tax and drinking the coffee.
Every word on behalf of the municipality and the welfare offices is a lie.
They don't apply, they don't call, they don't know about the elderly.
There is no such body of volunteers.
Every elderly person in a bad financial situation must get a distress button at the expense of the Ministry of Social Affairs to call every morning and say everything is fine
The welfare workers claimed to us that they are essential workers. That's fine but it was probably essential for them to come to work, not essential for them to do their job.
It is not possible that such a large number of elderly living alone for months does not receive the interest of the welfare departments. This is criminal negligence on their part. I don't understand how there was no outcry about the issue in the city council. I don't understand how there is no response from either the welfare department or the mayor's office on the subject. They have a lot to say about pigs and they are cruel to weak humans, when that is their whole job, they are not doing anyone a favor, they are wage earners, hundreds!
A few facts for your information:
A. There is no legal way to provide social assistance to someone who does not ask for it.
B. A social worker at a welfare office in Israel may simultaneously take care of 300 households (when a household can also include 5 or more people). That means over a thousand people who are treated by one worker. For comparison in England, in other European countries, Australia and New Zealand, a social worker in a welfare office treats only 12-15 people.
third. The State of Israel is drying up welfare services as a regular and deliberate policy. One of the results of this drying up is that there are not enough standards in the welfare offices in Israel and there is not enough money in the various programs. The result - Israeli immigrants receive welfare services at an inferior level as part of a social economic concept according to which welfare interferes with the economy and the ability of capitalists to accumulate more capital.
The result of all this is the de facto paralysis of the welfare services in Israel, which exist on paper and whose influence is diminishing.
about the demonstration of the Egyptians"
There is no reason for social workers to stage demonstrations.
Before they do their job, they should visit the elderly, visit the houses where there are problems between a man and a woman, it is not enough to sit in an air-conditioned office and click your tongue and you are good at that....then go and demonstrate about your dangers. You are not doing anything worthy!!!
Did you go to study social work? Apply it!!!
All the layers that need you complain about you and rightly so!!!
Stop whining and start working!!!!
With every elderly Ariri he had a distress button that every morning would announce that he was alive, this would have helped
The bracelet has a 24/7 companion for every elderly person who lives alone, at the expense of the state of course.
Israel Shechter is a man with a heart of gold. Doing holy work in Zaka. Blessed are his and blessed are his lot. Always with a smile and a beautiful face. Good luck.