Eye on seniors

By Emma Sun
CASEY residents over the age of 55 are encouraged to sign up for the Cranbourne Police Senior Citizen registry.
The registry is aimed at keeping tabs on the elderly, where regular check-ups will be conducted to ensure everything is going well.
While it involves the Cranbourne police, it is not restricted to just Cranbourne residents, and everyone in Casey is welcome to join. Information is kept securely and only the two co-ordinators and the police have access to it.
Each resident is issued with an ID card, which contains their name and their ID number on the register so emergency services know to contact the Cranbourne Police Station should anything happen.
Yvonne Hempston, a co-ordinator at the Cranbourne Police Senior Citizen registry, said volunteers called everyone on the registry to ensure everything is going well.
“We chat to them to make sure they’re okay and if they’ve got any problems, we try to look it up for them,” Ms Hempston said.
“Often they’ll call us and ask where they can get a plumber and we just look up the lists in the directory and call them back.”
Ms Hempston said the volunteers also got a lot out of helping out the elderly residents.
“We send them out birthday cards too, something we like to do,” she said.
“We get the seniors ringing us back saying thanks sometimes and it’s great.”
For more information, call Yvonne Hempston or Coral Saggers on 5991 0625.