Friends of the Elderly volunteers deliver Mother's Day flowers to women living alone in Dublin.
The volunteer based organisation Friends of the Elderly offers a wide range of social programmes to help relieve social isolation and loneliness among older people.
Mother’s Day can be a lonely one for women living alone and far away from their children.
Friends of the Elderly volunteers in Dublin deliver flowers to over 50 homes around the city. One of the elderly women receiving a floral gift is Ann Domican. She has a family but,
I think more of Friends of the Elderly than I do of my own family because I don’t see my own family very much.
She values the friendship and companionship she gets from the organisation when she most needs support.
They’re there when you need them and when you need them is a time to have a friend.
Elderly women who are not mothers also receive bouquets. One such recipient makes light of not having children.
I couldn’t get a man at all, I had too bloody many of them, and I got rid of them all.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 10 March 1991. The reporter is Jeri Ward.
