My relationship with Support Elders goes back a long way. The assistance and support I get from this organisation is immense. I visit Command Hospital every three months for my health check-up, and every time I go, one of the staff members accompanies me to the hospital.

The major advantage of the staff is that some of them are from army medical Corps, who provide medical services to Army personnel. So, they are very familiar with the norms of healthcare there. All the official paperwork, collection of medicines etc. at the Command Hospital are done flawlessly every time.

My relationship with Support Elders goes back a long way. The assistance and support I get from this organisation is immense. I visit Command Hospital every three months for my health check-up, and every time I go, one of the staff members accompanies me to the hospital.

The major advantage of the staff is that some of them are from army medical Corps, who provide medical services to Army personnel. So, they are very familiar with the norms of healthcare there. All the official paperwork, collection of medicines etc. at the Command Hospital are done flawlessly every time.

I was quite lonely after my wife passed away in a road accident. It is because of my daughter’s request I became a member of Support Elders. I had Retinal Detachment sometime back. A Support Elders staff member came early in the morning and took me to the hospital. He assisted me throughout the treatment, helped me to deposit the money, get the medicines and were constantly updating my daughter about the procedure and my health. He stayed beyond his duty hours to handover the responsibility to another staff member, who took over from him and brought me home in the evening. The next day another staff came to my house and took me for post-operative check-up and reached me home after completing the entire procedure.

We know that when our children move out for their job to some other cities or countries, we go through certain type of empty nest syndrome. My wife Rina and I also went through an initial loneliness, but then we realised that it is the way of life. We have two children, our son settled in the US and daughter, in Bengaluru. They are very responsible and help us in whatever way they can. But it is not possible for them to look after our everyday needs.

It is then when we came to know about this organisation, Support Elders, from one of our friends. I especially would like to appreciate and share their passionate way of helping people like us. I had a complicated operation few months back which made my movement a bit restricted. The help and support we both are getting from them now is really appreciable.

I am writing today about one incident to let you know how much I appreciate you as an organisation. Last year during Durga Puja, we wished to see some of the pandals nearby and we expressed our desire to Support Elders, which they gladly accepted and fulfilled by sending one of their staff. He came with a taxi in the morning and happily accompanied us to the pandals we intended to visit.

He helped us getting in and out of the taxi so carefully as if he is doing it for his parents. No words can really completely capture the joyous feelings in our heart when we think of how satisfied we were that day. The way they keep in touch with us by calling us every day without fail to enquire if we had taken medicines, is there anything we need, is applaudable. Every week a person visits us and help us doing our bank works, spend time with us even if we don’t have any out of home work to do.

My wife Rina recently visited Tarakeshwar to offer Puja. She went there without any tension or worry because she knew that Support Elders has given her the assurance by telling “Ma’am you carry on with your programme and we will look after Sir”, which they did.

Support Elders’ assistance has been invaluable for our life. The staff could not have been kinder and more supportive. Our heartfelt thanks and congratulation to Support Elders for their remarkable achievement in supporting the elders to feel secured and independent. We would like to express our gratitude to this amazingly helpful foundation for their enormous effort and great sincerity for the elderly people like us.