SAARP believes that senior citizens are entitled to a secure and rewarding existence in line with the highest moral principles of mankind. We work with vigour to enrich lives, raise self-esteem and influence society to support these ideals.
There is a worldwide trend to make older persons aware that they can change the way they age and enjoy a rewarding and productive life – it’s called Active Aging. Active Aging is simply the process of using your opportunities to participate in society and to stay healthy - in fact, to stay involved in life. [read more...]
Internet, web and related technology - such as smart phones, tablets and electronic readers – moves at an incredible rate. Things change and improve enormously in a short time. To keep up, you need to keep up to date with your own technology. It's obviously not possible to keep buying the latest computer, the latest operating system or even all the latest software, but one area in which you can keep up without any cost to you, is your web browser. [read more...]
A great number of documents will always be required in hard copy – think about things like a Will, a Title Deed to a property or just a little note telling your wife you love her if she wasn't awake when you left for the office in the morning. (Imagine leaving an open notebook on your pillow for her to find your message – it just wouldn't be the same). [read more...]
Have you ever wondered why you are bombarded with offers of all sorts of benefits from organisations and people you actually don't even know – but they somehow seem to know you because they are approaching you by telephone, fax, E-mail, SMS and volumes of paper? [read more...]
We believe we owe it to our members to keep them up to date with our activities. In December 2010 we had a facilitated planning session with a view toward making sure that SAARP is capable of delivering on the needs of our members in an ethical manner that ensures good value for members. [read more...]
Through a process of analysis, planning, defining and envisioning the future SAARP, we have embarked on a journey of remodelling the organisation in order to keep it as streamlined and cost effective as possible. We would also like to know that we are focussing on the issues that are most important to our members. [read more...]
The role of service providers, including Short Term Insurance, from an income point of view versus our Vision and Mission.
SAARP is built on the basis of servicing the needs of the Senior citizen in South Africa. To shrink the vision of servicing these needs to a brute insurance marketing operation, because this is the current primary source of income, somehow reduces the broad and noble ideals of the vision to a balance sheet, survival-mode, and mission-focussed operation. [read more...]
by Ray Hattingh. May 2011.
One of my most abiding memories will always be of a house with a completely overgrown garden, peeling paint, broken roof tiles and windows that long ago saw the last vestiges of varnish. Behind the torn curtains lived someone's mother. [read more...]
STATS South Africa. May 2011.
To be reconciled with the inevitable with good grace is wisdom.
A lifelong friend suddenly took ill, was diagnosed with a virulent form of cancer and told that he had six weeks to live. Two weeks before he died he handed a slip of paper to his sister and brother-in-law saying, "Here are the work, home and cell numbers of the undertaker. All you have to do when I die is phone him. Everything has been arranged and paid for." [read more...]
Grandparents are special people. They have the potential to give the most wonderful gifts to their grandchildren, the gifts of sharing, of being interested in many things, and above all the gift of time. They can also wield an enormous influence in their grandchildren's lives. [read more...]
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