Healthy Ageing Uganda

HENU - Health Nest Uganda is an indigenous non-profit making organization based in Entebbe and was registered by the government of Uganda in 2009. The organization recognizes and respects people’s abilities, promotes their dignity, and supports their independence and equal place in society.

HENU focuses on community strengths and reaches out to older persons, their families, and communities with a vision of having an empowered and pro-active community that can effectively and efficiently respond to health related problems and other social needs such as HIV/AIDS, poverty, and caring for orphans. HENU achieves this through an innovative strength-based approach called Community Life Competence (CLC) that promotes respect and independence of community members in responding to the issues/concerns that affect their wellbeing. CLC operates with the most basic assumption that every community has strengths and the capacity to respond to life’s challenges. Older persons and youth then are not passive recipients of assistance but rather the main actors in developing innovations aimed at addressing the issues they face. Community workers play a supportive and facilitating (not expert) role when needed.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Health Outcomes Tool

Issues faced by older persons in developing countries are largely invisible. Often older persons are not included in development or health systems strengthening efforts. HealthNest Uganda, in partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and HelpAge International, aims to make the issues of older persons more visible as part of a global movement to address the health, well-being, and social protection of older persons. 

Health Nest does this by engaging the strengths of older persons, intergenerational cooperation, and community action. To support this work, Health Nest is implementing the Health Outcomes Tool designed by HelpAge International with community-based intergenerational interventions to address the health issues that older persons face in Uganda. The Health Outcomes Tool is an instrument that aims to redefine health outcomes in older age, capture longitudinal and cohort changes, and help understand the relationship between these factors and outcomes of interventions.
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