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DARA 13
GOLDEN YEARS – THE RIGHT TO A DIGNIFIED LIFE IN A FAMILY ENVIRONMENT – FOSTER CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
Dara 13 is a company providing services in our home named Golden years. The company was founded in Sofia in 2015 by a volunteer, who was involved in many charitable activities. The idea to establish a private company, dedicated to the care of elderly people was initiated by a personal cause. The necessity to provide high-quality social and health services to elderly, sick and lonely people is the main idea it pursues. Our team consists of professionals, who are experienced in providing social services.
Travelling around the world and seeing how elderly people live, they brought the idea to Bulgaria, as well. Everybody has the right to a dignified life! Elderly people are the most vulnerable category of individuals who have given a lot to the country's development, but unfortunately they are not able to receive what they deserve. There are many reasons for that situation, as they are mainly financial. Unfortunately, the economic situation in our country dictated the establishment of such services, aiming to provide elderly people with care, comfort and a peaceful life. Our goal is to provide comprehensive services: medical, social, household, administrative, tailored to our customers' needs, on place and in the home, in dedicated rented rooms, providing comfortable conditions, which are also suitable for elderly disabled people. Our ambition is to help overcome the isolation, accompanying people as years go by. Our experience as professionals in various areas help us provide specialized aid to elderly people in need of support, as it will help lift their spirits and encourage them in their daily life. Our personal and professional experience taught us that the most important care and help we may render to our elderly relatives is to help them adequately meet their everyday needs as independent individuals.  
GOLDEN YEARS
is not a nursing home where you accommodate your relatives once and forever

The service in a home environment has been conceived as a microservice within the community. A lovely and spacious house, which offers the opportunity to go for a walk (also with a wheel-chair), is located in a mountain village, right under a peaceful pine forest with fresh air. Everyone is provided with individual attention, as visits of relatives at any time of the week and day are more than welcome. You may visit your relatives every day or in accordance with your schedule even for a few minutes as the house is located at a bustling crossroad between the towns of Gabrovo and Sevlievo and is permanently serviced by public transport.

Rooms and premises are renovated and furnished in compliance with the most modern requirements and approaches for care with elderly people accommodation in the following aspects:

  • Safety – The building is one-storey and all rooms are located on the first floor. The windows can be locked. There is an access ramp with a guardrail for reaching common and sanitary facilities. There are no thresholds and floorings which may lead to traumas, caused by falling.
  • Rooms are furnished in compliance with half-individual room model - each guest has their own personal space in the room, as well as access to the common premises. Rooms are furnished as home, not as hotel or hospital ones.
  • Sanitary facilities are in conformity and specially equipped for elderly people's needs with the required hygiene chairs and access for wheel-chairs.
  • In case of impossibility for visiting common dining-room, there is an opportunity for independent feeding by means of portable individual tables.
  • 24-hour video monitoring in house courtyard is provided, that may be installed on your phone by means of a special software, so that you are able to monitor your relatives during their walk.
  • Care is rendered by experienced assistants. They are proven assistants and responsible people to whom care is a profession not an employment.


Premises and conditions are important but care rendered by assistants is even more important and this is determined by the agenda. Care is not limited to hygienic service, feeding and watching TV.

What about the Health Care Service Issue?

No diseases are treated in this house, because it is not registered as a hospital or a hospice. Of course, your relatives will receive their medicines in the way they have been prescribed. They are under continuous monitoring and you will be immediately informed for any changes. In case of emergency accident we will call an ambulance. Consultations with experts and general practitioner remain of utmost importance and their organisation will have to be controlled by you.

For whom are the Services Suitable?

Social services provided by us include a range of activities, intended for elderly and disabled people living in the country or abroad. The aim of the services is to meet each demand of support, which has various duration and depends on the individual choice of everyone needing aid:

  • Visit by a specialist – evaluation of their individual needs;
  • Everyday care for household organisation;
  • Preparation of food and aid while feeding;
  • Short-term care during recovery from a disease or an accident suffered, including rehabilitation;
  • Monitoring of health status and administration of medicines, prescribed by a specialist physician;
  • Services on a specific occasion: Accompanying to social and healthcare institutions when relatives are not able to be absent from work or organize the visit personally;
  • Consultation on place at the home of a specialist physician;
  • Medical manipulations (if necessary and prescribed by a physician);
  • Communal and household services;
  • Social contact provision and maintenance;
  • Hair-cut at home
Leading Principles of Our Work:
  • CONFIDENTIALITY
  • EMPATHY
  • AWARENESS

Social work lies in the basis of household care provided by us. It includes customer needs monitoring and adaptation of services to needs in case of any changes. The aim is to make the customer continue feeling cosy despite difficulties in their everyday life by means of independence support.

Activities:
  • PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION.
    Social and legal, health-related, psychological consultation, information on specific issues users are interested on. Forms: individual consultations – in case of a specific issue or case stated; group consultations; discussion meetings, etc.
  • PREVENTION OF ACCOMODATION INTO A SPECIALIZED INSTITUTION.
    Social work with elderly people leading a socially isolated life. Identification of the source of the problems, performance of social and consultative work with users and their relatives.
    Forms: group and individual consultations, agency for improvement of relationship between elderly user and their relatives. The service will be provided to persons who seek aid and support on their own.
  • ESTABLISHMENT OF PRO-SOCIAL MODELS OF BEHAVIOUR.
    A leading idea is the prevention of user social isolation, as well as overcoming of their chronic health problems, including emergencies.
  • SPECIALIZED SUPPORT FOR USERS.
    Social and consultative work with users and their relatives corresponding to their individual needs. The collaboration of centre team will include gradual overcoming of psychological problems, related to user social inclusion to form confidence and provide a dignified life.