{"id":14248,"date":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/orspjall-vid-eldri-borgara\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:03:05","slug":"conversation-with-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/orspjall-vid-eldri-borgara\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick chat with senior citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services for the elderly in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are generally<br \/>\ndiverse, both in and out of the home. After the ban on gatherings was first<br \/>\nIntroduced at the beginning of March, a decision was taken to temporarily suspend<br \/>\nsocial activities for senior citizens and the closure of shared canteens to ensure full<br \/>\ncare and safety. Home care; domestic cleaning, social support and<br \/>\nAssistance with shopping has, for the most part, remained unaffected, but it has nevertheless decreased.<br \/>\nMeal service is available for all older people who wish to use it. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201eElderly residents in<br \/>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are clearly very conscious of ensuring the utmost safety and<br \/>\ncaution and some who have declined services that they have had to<br \/>\nto defend themselves and their home. We therefore decided to contact our<br \/>\npeople by telephone and are at the moment contacting those who are 85 years old and<br \/>\nolder people who still live at home. We want to take good care of our older people and<br \/>\nensure that those who have few people around them and need company at this time<br \/>\nHe gets through these incredible times. We want our people to feel good and to have<br \/>\neverything to everything\u201c<\/em> says Sj\u00f3fn Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, Head of the Support and<br \/>\nsupport services in the family and children's affairs department of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur municipality. A quick chat with<br \/>\nWork with older people is carried out in collaboration with staff at the Association of Older People in<br \/>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is responsible for contacting its people. Catering staff.<br \/>\nHome care services are currently contacting those who are not in the Union.<br \/>\nelderly people, but in total the project affects just over 350 people. Elderly people<br \/>\nthose who regularly attended the council's canteen were immediately offered a job upon its closure.<br \/>\nto home delivery of food and the service thus expanded to meet changed<br \/>\ncircumstances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Trying to adapt the service to the needs of each individual.<\/h4>\n<p>The staff of Sjafnar in home care have been on duty since the beginning.<br \/>\nCovid-19 and have emphasised the restructuring and reorganising of their services in<br \/>\nin collaboration with service users. <em>\u201eDespite<br \/>\nAll in all, the work has gone incredibly well and that is thanks to the fantastic<br \/>\nstaff who have gone to great lengths to find solutions that suit everyone and<br \/>\none so as to ensure the service\u201c <\/em>Sj\u00f6fn says and refers to them<br \/>\nactions that have taken place in recent days and weeks during the Covid-19 period. <em>\u201eThis is an example of service to<br \/>\na vulnerable group that needs to be kept uninterrupted at all levels of preparedness and we take<br \/>\nWe take our role seriously\u201c <\/em>Sjafn says at last.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00dej\u00f3nusta vi\u00f0 eldri borgara \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i er allajafna fj\u00f6lbreytt, b\u00e6\u00f0i inn \u00e1 heimilum og utan \u00feeirra. Eftir a\u00f0 samkomubann var fyrst sett \u00e1 \u00ed byrjun mars var \u00e1kv\u00f6r\u00f0un tekin um a\u00f0 fella t\u00edmabundi\u00f0 ni\u00f0ur f\u00e9lagsstarf eldri borgara og loka sameiginlegum m\u00f6tuneytum til a\u00f0 g\u00e6ta fyllstu var\u00fa\u00f0ar og \u00f6ryggis. Heima\u00fej\u00f3nusta; heimilis\u00ferif, f\u00e9lagslegur stu\u00f0ningur og a\u00f0sto\u00f0 vi\u00f0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}