The Tribune

By EARYEL BOWLEG

Tribune Staff Reporter

ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

PERSIS Rodgers Home for the Aged received a $2,500 donation from the Consultant Physicians Staff Association yesterday.

Shirley Clarke, one of the home’s administrators, said the facility appreciated the donation because this year has been “very difficult”.

“Well, you know it’s the pandemic and people (weren’t) giving to us like how (they) normally do and you know we very much depend on assistance from the outside,” she said.

Currently, Ms Clarke said the home needs cleaning supplies as well as some bedding.

The home has 20 elderly residents and nearly all of them are vaccinated, according to the administrator.

“Before they come into the home we require them to get vaccinated,” she said.

“We do not allow visitors at this time but relatives, they can come in and they can see their relatives.

“We bring them out and they can talk at a distance.”

CPSA president Dr Sabriquet Pinder-Butler was present to make the donation.

“We know that our population is ageing more,” she told the media.

“We encourage persons to take care of their health so that they (can) age gracefully, but we know that there have been challenges in the economy and in the country.

“So, persons perhaps who would have helped before were not able to do so and I do think that more can be done to take care of the elderly in this country and so this is one of the reasons why CPSA thought it was fitting for us to look at older persons and the elderly and we contacted the home.

“They were gracious to let us know what was needed and we thought it was fitting to provide them with a donation so that it can help them towards the items that would help.”