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Psychologist Lucie Simonová, who works with Sue Ryder, reflects on forming relationships in senior years, emphasising the importance of connection, sharing, and even a warm embrace at the age of eighty. As part of a multidisciplinary team, her mission is to ensure that clients experience the final stage of life with dignity, fulfilment, and purpose. She also considers it her responsibility to challenge stereotypes about ageing, dying, and death.

Jakub Welszar was among the first to arrive at the newly opened home for the elderly in Michelský dvůr. He's quiet and hard to interview. But this boy from Vinohrady has a heart of gold, a will like a bull and has been caring for the most fragile clients for 23 years. At the other end of Sue Ryder's history of caregivers is Henry Kaut. He spent most of his life in the armed forces. Then followed a career reversal and since February he has been caring for the elderly - with vigour, love and sometimes with the help of "Dinotherapy".

On Thursday, June 27, 2024, the fundraiser for a new elevator received its final boost. Matěj Lejsal, who has been the director of Sue Ryder for 19 years, organised an unusual fundraising challenge, saying: "I’m going to do something in Stromovka that I would normally only do if it were a punishment!"

"I once realised that a person, even if they are a specialist - a doctor - has no right to judge another person's standard of living. We cannot say that a person's standard of living is already such that it is not worth treating. We must strive to the end for the best quality of human existence", says Peter Herle, Medical Doctor in Sue Ryder.

Every old person is unique. Everybody in the Czech Republic should have the chance to live their old age and the old age of their loved ones with dignity. That's why Sue Ryder has been here since 1998. We are committed to standing with the oldest among us. Hundreds of human stories. Thousands of hours of help. Look how far we've come together and thanks to you.

So that they are not left alone to worry about old age. To experience something extra - like dancing, even in a wheelchair, visits to therapy animals, trips to places they love. To have the care they need every day to live. And that the kind and dignified approach in elder care continues to spread, according to Sue Ryder. All of this is what you, our donors, contributed to in the Christmas collection.⭐

She senses the sun rays but she has never seen how the sky flares up with the shades of gold. She hears the humming of waves but she cannot admire the magnificence of the sea. Jarka, a client of the Sue Ryder personal assistance, has been blind since her birth. Yet, or perhaps therefore, she is always struggling to experience. Her eyes have names: Ivana, Martina, Hanka ... 

Knowing the last wishes of our clients and trying to fulfill them. That is also one of the pieces of Sue Ryder’s mosaic of dignified care, and the reason why we took Madam Marie to the Říp mountain on March 5th, 2020.

Vlasta, a client of the Sue Ryder senior citizen home, says: „I experienced the war. It was evil. But ageing is also a struggle. Each of the clients of this home also fights their small battles every day. With pain, for instance.“ And it is against the pain that rehabilitation can effectively help. And also with clients in palliative care.

 Mrs. Eva wrote to us via www.neztratitsevestari.cz. Her grandmother was hospitalized after neck of femure fracture and her condition worsened. Eva was therefore looking for information about the possibilities of quality care for her loved grandmother.