It's not the end of the New Year until the Lantern Festival, so come out with Eden for a special bazaar. This year, Eden Foundation invited the senior service users from our five daycare service sites to step out of their homes and become grey-haired owners of the bazaar, and cooperated with the super popular illustrator weiweiboy's "wei wei studio", Korean style flower shop "The Tipsy Florist", and exquisite dessert of "CUPETIT Boutique Co., Ltd. ", and wanted to share with everyone the cultural and creative illustration merchandise, flower cones, and baked desserts. In addition, seniors from Pinglin and Pingtung also shared the local specialty products to the bazaar, and the bazaar full of stalls that could be regret to miss, we invited the public to experience the most special and heartwarming bazaar together.
Under the guidance of florist, the seniors wrapped the warming paper cone flower bouquets with their skillful hands.
This year, Eden Foundation organized the "Knock！Knock！Bazaar ", hoping to change the public's stereotypical image of "old age". Nearly 15 senior service users from Taipei Yi-Fu Community-Based Long-Term Care Service Center, Keelung Le-Fu Long-Term Care Center, Pinglin ShuiLiuJiao Senior Daycare Center, Sanshia Beida Community-based Long-Term Care Service Center, and Pingtung Kanding Senior Daycare Center, with an average age of 85 years old, participated in the event. From the preparation of materials, learning how to make the products, to the on-site sales and interaction, the senior service users did everything by their own selves, which demonstrated that Eden's caregiving service is not just a one-way "care", but is also the opportunity to grow old with seniors, slow down the deterioration, and create new ideas for the better time.
Service users from Pinglin Senior Daycare Center, warming everyone's heart with hot tea
Service users from Taipei Long-Term Care Service Center, Beitou, who completed the creation together with illustrator weiweiboy, showing their creativity in the artworks.
Uncle Chien, 86-year-old, the representative comes from the northernmost service site of Eden - Keelung Xinyi Service Site for seniors with dementia, worked as a sailor when he was young in order to earn money to support his family, and after his retirement, he lived with his wife in Keelung. Then he lives alone after his wife passed away, Uncle Chien became depressed and was diagnosed with mild dementia after his children noticed that he had frequent headaches and forgot things. After a referral from the hospital, he came to Keelung Xinyi Service Site for seniors with dementia of Eden which near his home. Accompanied by the staff and the friendly interactions of other service users, Uncle Chien has become more and more fond of the activities at the center and attends them on time every day. When he learned that he was going to be an owner this time, he actively participated in the activities and learned how to make delicious bakery desserts in the hope that it would be a good business.
Service users from Keelung Service Site for seniors with dementia prepare delicious desserts to share with the public.
Among the seniors who traveled from Kanding in Pingtung to set up a stall, the oldest is 89-year-old Grandma Hsiu-Chih. At first, she and her husband went to the senior daycare center together. After her husband passed away, her family originally wanted to hire a migrant to take care of her at home, but she liked the hustle and bustle of senior daycare center and insisted on continuing to participate, and over the past two years, her family has found that she has become more regular in her disorganized daily routine schedule, and that her cognitive disorganization and forgetfulness have improved, then she has become more cheerful and emotionally stable. This time, they decided to challenge Grandma to take a small trip with center and set up a stall, hoping to have the good experience and memories.
Service users from Pingtung brought local special products, which were well received by the public.
Taiwan is entered the super-aging society in 2025, and with more and more older persons, not only physical care, but also mental health should be taken seriously, Eden's "Care Service Programs for Older Persons" is themed "Hey, everything okay with you? " this year. And will provide diversified and professional local services, such as daycare, care service site, home-based service, and meal delivery service for seniors. Through daily greetings and care, we hope to become the best friends of older persons, so that the seniors can have the most appropriate care in the most familiar place, and the caregivers can also feel relieved and at ease. We invite the public to support us with love and care by calling our support line 0800-025-885 or searching for "Eden Care Service for Older Persons" to be the warm current in the cold winter of long-term care families.
