PCI delegation reviews best practices in elderly services at SSSD

This visit comes to review the best practices in the elderly services implemented by the Department of Social Services, where Colonel Mona Sorour; Deputy Director of the

Punishment and Correctional Institution Department at Sharjah Police, praised the role played by SSSD to serve our fathers and mothers and to strive to provide the best practices of international standards for the elderly, highlighting that the Punitive Institution in Sharjah is looking today at how to develop its services for the institution’s inmates of senior citizens and to provide new and modern services , noting that their happiness is our happiness regardless of their punishment.

For her part, Asmaa Al-Khodari welcomed the delegation and sparked light on the objectives of the Sharjah Office to the age, which lies in providing services that benefit senior citizens in the country in order to encourage all government and private institutions, administrations and individuals to contribute to the success of this the strategic plan in the Emirate of Sharjah.

The brochure issued by the office, which brings together various global initiatives from the world, was reviewed, including gardens for the elderly, which have sports equipment suitable for them to preserve their health, and the appointment of senior future developers so that their experiences can be benefited from and their opinion is taken during the development of plans and evaluation of the places to be built, the manufacture of buses Low floor with audio visual advertisements, housing for the elderly within a residential complex with the aim of alleviating their loneliness and breaking their isolation, establishing an academy for the elderly to create opportunities for learning and also to benefit from their experiences to be part of an academic complex, and issuing an educational series on elderly sports and others.


The delegation was headed by Colonel Mona Surour Marzouk, Deputy Director of the Punishment and Correctional Institution Department at the Sharjah Police General Command, in the presence of Lt. Col. Abdullah Khalfan Al Ghazal, Head of the Correction and Rehabilitation Department, First Lieutenant Aisha Al Mazloum, First Assistant Ghanima Obaid Elias, Women’s Prison Branch, and Assistant Fahd Al Hammadi, Information Systems Office. And Arif Tamer Al-Makki, a member of the Sharjah Healthy Cities Project, and the first policeman, pharmacist Rasha Al-Khattab. They were received by Asma Al-Khodari, director of the age-sensitive Sharjah office, in the presence of Aisha Hashem and Alia Al Ali, a compliance observer of the Initiatives and Projects Unit.