specific needs of children and elderly left behind as a ... - IOM Moldova

CHAPTER II
- Excluding the social assistant’s duty to perform agricultural works:
“it is our responsibility to help them work in the garden, this is part of our
job: dig in the garden, you bring them bread, what else, call the doctor,”
“but it does not mean “meeting their basic needs” (FG_EE_urban_rural).
• Developing forms of support and social services (institutions in
charge: Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family; Local Public
Administration of the 1st and 2nd level):
The study highlights the necessity to develop and diversify other forms of
support for the elderly left behind:
- To revise criteria of selecting the beneficiaries: “criteria of selecting
the beneficiaries should be revised to a certain extent as there are people
who need to be examined by doctors in order to establish what services
they require; there are people who are not registered as having mental
disorders but when you visit them…” (FG_EE_urban_rural);
- A multidisciplinary team should decide on home-care services for
the elderly: “when the person was referred to home-care services a multidisciplinary
team should examine them and decide if the person needs
these kind of services or not as there are people who drink or have mental
disorders” (FG_EE_urban_rural);
- To increase the number of temporary placement services for money:
“to open centres, and hostels in which they could be placed temporarily,
for a fee. The government can not cover such costs; it should be paid
for by migrants-children. The Constitution and other laws stipulate that
children should take care of their parents, but it is not quite respected”
(FG_EE_urban);
- To develop specialized professional care services for the elderly, in
the family: “it would be beneficial if the elderly were placed in families
that are socially able and developed and they would be provided for; for
examples foster families for children, such families should exist for the
elderly too” (FG_EE_urban);
- The mayoralty should provide psychological and legal support for
the elderly: “it would be beneficial for the elderly if the mayoralty employed
a psychologist or a lawyer”; “we had a situation when an old
man was cheated and signed papers that deprived him of his property.
The old man does not know whom to address for help and we cannot do
anything as all lawyers offer services in return for payment but where
can we refer him to if he has only 2 lei and saves that for buying bread?
A lawyer should be appointed per district that will go to a certain village
on a certain day and offer legal advice. Thus we will able to help by making
an appointment for them. Although we know what they need we can
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