Planned initiative · not yet operating

ElderCare Initiative

When an elder can no longer travel to care, care should travel to them.

So every elder can:

LIVE●HEAL●THRIVE

📈 The need: 1.6M+ Ugandans are 60+, and 80% live in rural areas (UBOS, 2022)

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Not yet running. ElderCare is on our roadmap, waiting on the partners and funding to bring it to life. The figures below are the targets we are building towards.

The Idea

Reaching the elders the system forgets

Uganda’s over-60 population exceeds 1.6 million, and 80% live in rural areas — most with multiple chronic conditions and no means to reach care.

ElderCare would bring mobile clinics with trained multidisciplinary teams to elderly Ugandans in hard-to-reach communities: chronic-disease screening and management, vision, hearing and dental care, health education, medication supply and referral coordination — aligned with the National Policy for Older Persons and the WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing.

An elderly man at a community health camp

✓Chronic-disease screening and management (hypertension, diabetes).
✓Vision, hearing and dental care.
✓Health education and counselling.
✓Medication supply and referral coordination.

The Need We See

Why our elders can’t wait

1.6M+

Ugandans aged 60+, 80% rural

68%

of elderly present with a chronic disease

2 in 10

access an annual health check-up

85%+

hold no formal health insurance

Sources: UBOS 2022 · NMS Annual Report 2023

Vision

A Uganda where every elderly person enjoys quality care and a dignified life

To deliver free, accessible, multidisciplinary healthcare to elderly individuals in hard-to-reach communities through mobile health units.

Help us honour Uganda’s elders

ElderCare is a plan waiting for partners. Help us give it wheels.

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