Aaptha

Aaptha is a companion which acts as a bridge in carrying love and care from the children who live far away and delivering it to their secluded parents at their homes. We provide services that help golden-agers (aged parents) to lead their twilight life contently and comfortably.

In this present IT-diffused world, not everyone is fortunate to secure a job and settle in the same place from where he or she is born and brought up. Since our birth, we tend to move from place to place for either better education or better career options, to have a better future in life. In this long journey, we and our parents happen to endure many sacrifices. We miss our home, we miss our friends, we miss our locale and the toughest part is that we miss our most loved ones. Here is the dearth where our Aaptha plays its part.

Aging parents face many challenges in their golden age. Most common is their diminished ability to perform daily chores, monitor dietary restrictions, follow the prescription regimen, keep up with daily exercise and physiotherapy requirements, and incapacitation in general. Aaptha’s mission is to address these challenges with compassion as its core principle. Aaptha’s services cater to elderly needs at varying levels of assistance ranging from short-term on- demand services to long-term companionship needs. We like to achieve this at a reasonable cost, with the help of well-trained, paid volunteers who are genuinely concerned about these elderly needs, and most importantly share the same level of passion as that of the founders. This has been foundational to Aaptha’s execution plan.

We put equal emphasis on both the physical and emotional wellbeing of our elderly population. The global pandemic further exposed isolation challenges causing higher stress among the elderly. This is more evident among parents that are used to seeing their children and grandchildren at least once every year or two years but now have been distanced for longer periods by restrictions in international travel. Aaptha recognizes this as a need that doesn’t often bubble up but requires attention. We train our volunteers to handle conversations, understand thoughts in ways that help the elderly feel emotionally balanced, facilitate programs that help relieve stress induced by loneliness.

Our mission is to help the golden agers, who denied their self and sacrificed their dreams for our bright futures, who taught us morals and values holding our fingers, to lead their twilight days comfortably and happily. We envision to build a trust in our clients that their bestowers of birth are leading a comfortable and content life in Aaptha’s safe and affectionate hands. We also envision to kindle moto of service in each individual in the society, irrespective of gender, profession or any sort of , by motivating them and then integrating them into helping these Golden Agers

SERVICES

Aaptha is a Non-Profit Organization, our prices are low when compared to other organizations, charges we collect are spent on the Welfare of caregiver and activities we conduct for elderly well being.

PART-TIME CARE CAMPANIONSHIP

This is a basic service we provide. We appoint care companions who will look after your dear parents.

They visit the elder’s home according to the schedule which is twice or thrice generally.

They assist the elders in doing some basic and essential activities like buying groceries, medicine, fruits & vegetables, etc.

They also accompany and assist with social outings, park visits, any public gatherings, etc.

Upon all, they accompany and assist your parents with hospital visits which is a frequent and essential need of their age.

Also, keen monitoring of your parent’s health condition would be done every time our companion visits.

By spending time with them, our care companions would effectively help in avoiding the boredom and alienation that your parents might be facing or may be prone to.

At last, a service that can be very soothing to your hearts is, our care companions will always be available to respond and do the needful in the case of emergency.

For the role of care-companions, we choose effective individuals who are already comprising empathy and affection, and are further trained professionally in all manners to serve more effectively. We generally choose our companions students, housewives and retired employee who are innately motivated to serve people and society. With these Samaritans we ensure your parents or elders have a happy, safe and healthy time.

FULL-TIME CARE COMPANIONSHIP

Care-givers assist elders with activities in daily life including bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting etc.

Care-givers guide elders to follow the diet advised to them by the nutritionists or the doctors.

Care-givers assist elders with medication as per the schedule prescribed by physician.

Care-givers monitor elders’ health conditions by checking their vitals on regular basis, and also checked anytime if required and the details are shared with the concerned people.

Care-givers encourage and assist elders to participate in physical activities like yoga, exercises, walking etc.

Care-givers perform physiotherapy exercises as guided by the physiotherapist.

Aaptha designs indoor fun activities based on the elder’s health and mental condition which can give a great relief from the emotional sickness and isolation. Care-givers conduct these activities and ensure that elders participate.

Based on the client’s requirement care-givers help in house hold works like cooking, cleaning, washing etc.

RESIDENT BUDDY

Resident buddy is a service where a student or working employee would reside along with your parents in the same home. This service is focused mostly on avoiding the feeling of psychological loneliness in elders by offering a physical presence around them. These resident buddies do all the services that are done by a part-time care companions except that they are excluded from tasks like cleaning, washing and cooking.

HOME CARE NURSING

Part-time and full-time nursing services are provided. Well qualified and experienced nurses would take care of your parents. As per your requirement, either full-time or part-time services can be availed.

ON-DEMAND, NO COMMITMENT ASSISTANCE

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Elderly parents who are mostly self-sufficient but need some occasional assistance

As an example, they need assistance for visiting a hospital as an outpatient and going through multiple registration processes, tests, MRIs, scans, etc. OR combining multiple chores into a single-day activity like paying bills, visiting a bank, following up on land registration, etc.