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Golden age home gets therapeutic centre
published: Tuesday | November 25, 2003

By Francine Black, Staff Reporter

A THERAPEUTIC centre was opened last Friday at the Golden Age Home in Vineyard Town, Kingston, that will provide relief for a number of its physically impaired residents.

The centre, located at Cluster D - the area which houses the physically handicapped residents - was build as "a place to give extra comfort", according to Bradley Finzi-Smith, executive director for Food for the Poor.

A partnership between Food for the Poor and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the centre was constructed over a one-month period at a cost of $650,000.

Cluster D currently houses approximately 30 residents.

Physiotherapist, Antoinette Hayes, says she has found 10 persons so far who can benefit from corrective or preventative therapy based on her preliminary assessment of the home's residents.

Ms. Hayes who is employed to Mona Rehab, will be providing services to the new centre on a part time basis.

Residents from other clusters will be accommodated by appointment, however. Food for the Poor intends to outfit all clusters that have aged residents with a therapeutic centre of their own.

Residents will also benefit from annual consultations with an overseas doctor to be brought in by Food for the Poor.

The centre is currently being furnished and will be totally operational by January. This is the first therapeutic centre for the home since its establishment in 1982 as housing for the survivors of the Eventide Home fire.

Friday's activities also included a day of care as part of the Ministry of Local Government's celebrations for Local Government Month and as a culmination to two days of activities that were held by the ministry at the home.

Representatives of cluster sponsors which included Food for the Poor, Jamaica National Building Society, Life of Jamaica, and community organisations such as Rollington Town Citizens Organisation, along with numerous volunteers, groomed and fed the seniors, and participated in general cleaning, landscaping, painting of buildings and more.

The Kiwanis Club of East Kingston and Port Royal also hosted a health fair there.

The activities culminated with a football match between the National Under-20 girls and boys teams.

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