{"id":24,"count":4,"description":"In recent years, the number of elderly citizens in the State of Israel has been steadily increasing. As they age, their needs change; health is no longer what it once was, and a decline in daily functioning begins. This brings difficulties with mobility both inside and outside the home, resulting in withdrawal into the house and social and community isolation.\r\n\r\nOur parents, our grandfathers, and our grandmothers\u2014who not so long ago raised us, invested in us, and changed our diapers\u2014now find themselves needing us on a daily basis in those very same areas. The wheel has turned.\r\n\r\nThe elderly person's need for help from their family and immediate environment is not always fully met. This situation has led many seniors to seek suitable frameworks in nursing homes. Wanting to avoid becoming a burden on their families, many seniors choose to relocate to nursing homes to spend the rest of their lives there.\r\n\r\nIt is an open secret that the quality of a nursing home and the senior's quality of life is a direct derivative of money\u2014and a lot of it! Those who do not have the means find themselves in simple, meager nursing homes that provide only the most basic existential needs.\r\n\r\nWe, at the Ish Tzadik Haya organization, have taken it upon ourselves to give back to those fathers, grandfathers, and grandmothers. 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