The Din-Al-View Sector Five CPF has started an initiative called the Elderly Safe at Home Project and given it the acronym Es@h.
The aim of the project is to keep elderly residents in touch with each other, as well as with the CPF.
“The inspiration for this project was the senseless, brutal murder of two elderly women in Lambton and the murder of an elderly blind lady a while ago in our neighbourhood,” said Vaughn Jones, chairperson of the Din-Al-View CPF.
The project is still in its “in the womb” phase and should be fully launched early in 2018.
The inaugural meeting of Es@h will take place on November 18 at 2pm in the boardroom on the first floor of the Stone Arch Square Shopping Centre, situated on the corner of Brookhill and Sunstone streets, in Castleview.
The committee would eventually like Es@h to become a sub-committee of the Din-Al-View Sector Five CPF, with the following mission:
• To keep the elderly people of the community in communication with each other by cellphone, landline, email or radio.
• To enrol sufficient Es@h members to form a sub-committee that ultimately reports to the current Din-Al-view CPF exco committee. The elderly will be the committee members as they are the ones who are most aware of their needs.
• To have senior citizens take part in this initiative by contacting Teresa Robertson on 076 941 6989 to join the Elderly Safe at Home Project.
• To have able-bodied community members who are residents within the sector and are at home during the day (or are available at night) to assist with the programme, regardless of age. These residents must be willing and able to assist in the care and protection of elderly residents. Interested residents can also contact Robertson to offer their services. Transport to collect pensions, visit a hospital or undertake shopping trips is desperately required. The Uber taxi service will also be approached.
• To eventually have a co-ordinator or patroller in each street or block that assists and visits Es@h members.
• To issue and update a handy list of emergency services contact numbers.
• Assist the Pink Ladies with recording personal details of elderly people and a DNA sample which can be made available to the SAPS in the event of disappearance, often as a result of dementia. This information is retained and only handed to the SAPS if the need arises.
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Below is a suggested list of emergency numbers that all residents can retain and copy in the interim.
Cut it out and keep it close to the landline phone or stick it on your fridge.
In addition to the numbers below, we suggest that you add your security company to the list and the number of your closest neighbour or family member.
The reason for the neighbour or family member number is, in the event of incapacity, personal information is available.
Your medical aid membership number is also a valuable addition to the list
EMERGENCY NUMBERS LIST:
• Your home address and telephone numbers:
• CPF phone – available 6am to 9pm: 063 218 5815
• SAPS Flying Squad – obtain and keep a reference number: 10111
• All emergencies – with or without airtime available: 112
• Din-Al-View SAPS sector van: 071 675 6862/63
• EMPD: 011 999 2440
• Ambulance – ER24: 084 124
• Ambulance – NetCare 911: 082 911
• Fire Department: 011 458 0911/10177
• Power outage – obtain and keep a reference number: 0860 543 000
• Medical Aid no and telephone number:
• Security Response telephone number:
• Relative’s telephone number:
• Neighbour’s telephone number.
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