Synergy Elderly care is a non-profit, non-Governmental organization, registered by the
registrar of companies, in the year 2017, with registration number 80020000534566 and
currently pursuing registration with the National Registration Bureau 2533.
The aim of Synergy Elderly Care is to work with the elderly people in Uganda and
support them to age gracefully and successfully, while not compromising their
traditional, and social-cultural values. We aim at supporting families in taking care of
their aged parents and grandparents, and work to minimize and eliminate all sorts of
discrimination and abuse of the elderly in Uganda.
The organization stems from an academic project, on Aging and Disability that has been
conducted in Wakiso district among other districts in the country, in which findings
revealed a great need and an existing gap in care for the elderly. Among others the
study revealed that the traditional care systems in which the families, kin and
neighborhoods took care of the elderly is increasingly getting strained, while formal
care for the same group is not yet available in the country. There is therefore a
significant care gap left by the consequences of development and the so-called
modernization as children are increasingly going to school, and women are increasingly
taking up jobs in formal and informal sectors, yet the two have for years, been known
to be the greatest care takers of the elderly in Uganda and Africa in general. These
positive developments therefore need to be backed up with long term and concrete
plans on how to cover the care gaps left for vulnerable categories of people especially
the elderly.