The current health situation affects our seniors and their daily lives. This is why the foundation has taken the lead in contacting its partner associations in order to help lonely and isolated senior citizens and thus enable them to maintain social ties.

 

The foundation supports pink scrubs!

The association Les Pink Coats intervenes with elderly individuals in Ehpad. They listen to, comfort, distract the sick and bring joy in a daily life of loneliness or care. Several initiatives have been carried out and supervised by the association:

  • In collaboration with Le Comptoir de L'Hirondelle, weekly emails are sent to medical establishments in the Lille metropolitan area. The association Les Blouses Roses has passed on these small attentions to its entire national network. Residents regularly receive letters, drawings, paintings, photos or even children's songs to help them ease their daily lives. About fifty letters have already been sent.

 

  • In collaboration with the Ephad des bateliers, the Sedagyl and Delaby teams provided sports equipment (pedal boats, steppers) so that the seniors could have the opportunity to practice a sporting activity in their rooms.

 

  • In collaboration with the Saint Philibert Hospital in Lomme, Afibel donated clothing (tee shirt and fleeces) for the nursing staff.

 

Association Siel Bleu: The project sponsors stay close to their association and to the seniors!

The foundation has collaborated with the association SIEL BLEU in order to offer our seniors a sports session every Monday on our site Boulevard de Fourmies in Roubaix.

Antonella and Marjorie carry out their role as sponsors from a distance by keeping in touch with our seniors, who unfortunately can no longer go to the gym to maintain social contact. Marjorie reports the news:

 

  • How do they experience containment?

Some live it better than others. As they are mostly single people, they need to talk, to be listened to. I try to find out if they go out, how they organize themselves for their shopping, what they do. We talk a lot. I keep in touch with each other. Links have been made. Some even call me to check up on me.

 

  • Are they able to continue to do some exercises at home to keep in shape?

They are mostly people who are not comfortable with the new technology. Some do not have a mobile phone. So the tutorials, the live classes are not necessarily suitable. Some people do some exercises at home anyway. Others prefer to go out walking for an hour and get some fresh air.

 

  • What do they confide in about this situation: fear, sadness, loneliness...?

In the exchanges I had, I did not feel any real sadness or fear but rather boredom and a great eagerness to resume their various activities.

Testimony of Liliane:

"I live the confinement to occupy myself and to undertake all that I did not have the time or the occasion to do in the whirlwind of a daily life with its lot of various and varied outings and appointments. My days are punctuated by pleasant things: colouring mandalas, dancing to live music, reading, listening to the radio, watching a report or a film on TV, cooking (finding what to concoct with the little I have)... and less pleasant things: sorting, filing and throwing away (difficult!).) papers, administrative documents that have been lying around in boxes for a long time and going out shopping in the supermarket with all the stress that entails... I put up with confinement because it allows me to refocus, to realize and see where my priorities are, this also applies to relationships and knowledge, to strengthen and consolidate my emotional ties with my children, my granddaughter, my family, via video and Whatsapp. I live the confinement well when, from the morning, sometimes even the day before, I set objectives even if, in the end, during the day I don't achieve them. I say to myself: "Walk on a rainbow path and everything around you will be beautiful... we will overcome all the clouds (Navajo song).