The Qatari Foundation for the Elderly  
 


The Qatari Institution for Elderly Persons' Care is a private institution with a recognized independent identity and it enjoys full autonomy and its headquarters is in Doha city.

The Institution aims at:

1.Sheltering elderly persons whose families are unable to look after them of those without families.

2.Providing health, social and psychological service necessary to them.

3.Offering services and care to elderly persons in their homes and among their families.

4.Awareness-raising among the families to embrace the elderly and direct them to the best ways of caring for them.

5.Rehabilitating the elderly to face the problems resulting from aging and haw to cope with them.

6.Endeavoring to integrate the elderly in the community each according to his/her capabilities and capacities.

 

The Institution is non-profitable and non-political, and it achieves its objectives by means of:

1.Cooperating and coordinating with the related bodies inside as well as outside the State of Qatar in the area of the Institution's activities.

2.Educating families that care for elderly persons and giving them consultative services.

3.Conducting seminars, meetings and conferences related to the Institution's activities.

4.Receiving gifts, donations and wills in order to achieve the Institution's purposes.

 
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