They've all turned their backs, the touching stories of the House of Elders.

“Zefi best!” This sentence with great pride and laughter is often read by Zef Krasniqi from Prizren. The speech, placed in the middle of a drawing with plenty of orange-coloured butterflies, is complimented by a friend 85 years younger than he is. Jora, who visits Jeff often, has brought him two drawings. The retired teacher keeps the presents attached to the laundry in the room where he started sleeping about four months ago. Krasniqi is the oldest of the 17 residents of the Community House for elderly and without family care, located in Gurrakoc in Istog. “Have I photographed what my five-year-old daughter has brought me, ask him as soon as you get to the table in the living room, where pensioners spend the biggest time in the day. He insists on showing Jora's gifts, which is the daughter of one of the employees in the mall. It's called the girl who made these drawings. Even here, she wrote me the best “Zeef”.

The house and the company he has found says he would not like to change. I've come once, in August of this year, to prove whether I can do it at night, and I've been back in Prizren for a week, believe I've liked it around here the most” Krasniqi shows his impressions of the House. He says it's better than staying home alone. I had a wife, died three years ago, I had no one, says Krasniqi.

“Today let's not even watch your son”

Since the founding of the House as an institution in 2008, there has been Ayman Etemaj, from Istog Banja, who, in addition, has not even been able to move in a year. There's no bed where she's lying. There's a cart. She greatly appreciates the hospitality she received in her second <x0 house”. The beginning, however, is a very bad experience. I've been through a lot of it, saying that you can't live there, I've been a sefa, an orphan without a parent, but the mouse's grown up and looked at me a lot of”, she told me.

But everything says she changed with the death of her witch. “Majha died, the son of Midge in Germany, the old aunts of both, where, by night, at the house of the Mijja itself, you saw me, the boy of the flock came to 12 a day, afternoon gone, I again at night, with drugs, with doctors, I saw fit to stand alone”, she relates. It shows that she was married and had an abortion of two children. I've had it, but today if your son looks at you, you can't become a mavalre of no man” she further relates, adding that he had decided to live, in the most caring house for the elderly.

I don't want”

Seven years ago, 80-year-old Nurie Daskaj, of Jeloc of Kline, was placed in this house. Well, well, well, the dance we live here”, she shows, without letting go of the hooks with which she weaves the back of a sweater. He says he has no family. The closest one to her says to being her brother's son. I've got a son, a son of my brother in Germany”, she tells me. As he leaves the house, he says that he visits his uncle primarily. “Dal often, dateds, come and pick me up and bring me back”, she relates. For eight months, there is also Feride Kapllanaj, from the village of Glareva of the Cline Town.

The 78-year-old says she's happy to be here. I'm not mad at anything, because only God and my body in that house I had, I lived myself, when my husband died on my brother-in-law, but they didn't look at me properly, they told me when you went to your sister, fuck you no more, she tells me.

He says caring in this house is great. And I've left my clothes, and I've left my clothes, and I've brought them to the teruna bed, for better reason, three times a day we eat bread”, she relates, adding that she wants nothing more in life. If I'm fat enough, I don't want” anymore, Ferid says.

Staff Lack

All these residents, according to Director Lawrence Gegaj, have met the criteria for deployment. Among the main ones are to be over 65 years old, not have biological children, and not have psychic diseases. In the areas within the two - story house and outside, a added cleanliness is seen in the space of about 60 fields. No remains. There is also a park behind the house, where warm days of the elderly can pass.

In addition, Gegaj says even tourist visits with elderly people are carried out throughout the Kosovo region. During this year, it says they have realised about 10 such ones, including the visit to Rugova and the one in Prevalla. He says the visas are done with the consent of the elderly persons.

Gegaj says they're trying to do everything in their power for the nine males and eight old women living there. He says they offer healing 24 hours a day, with a staff of 12 workers. But these say it's not enough. According to Gegaj, the House needs a psychologist, a social worker, a nurse, a dentist, and a physical therapist. Gegaj says he needs a car and a ambulance. He also says he doesn't need a driver. These demands are made by the Ministry of Labour and Social Health, but the response says it has not been received.

Currently, according to MPMS data, there is a House of Old Persons in Kosovo without family care in Pristina. Where persons from all over Kosovo are sheltered, as well as three community homes, where elderly persons who work for specific regions are sheltered.

According to the last census, conducted in 2011, 116 thousand, 785, or 6.7 percent of the total population are over 65 years./ Periscope