History

GlaxoSmithKline, s.r.o. establishes the Elpida Endowment Fund .

A project is emerging Golden Autumn with Elpida . The aim is to involve seniors in active life by organizing joint events, informing them, educating them, and at the same time creating a community of people who will become their background and support.

In November, the Senior Citizens' Line will begin serving seniors on the toll-free number 800 200 007. V provozu je každý všední den od 17 do 19 hodin a je nabízena jako linka informační.

Internet School for the Elderly participates in the Tereza project "Internet connects generations" . In ten selected primary and secondary schools, students trained 470 seniors. We are publishing educational scripts Internet School for Seniors.

The golden line becomes a helpline and crisis intervention . Compared to 2003, there was a rapid increase in the number of calls in 2004. At autumn 2004, the possibility of contacting the Gold Line was added to the telephone service. via email zlatalinka@elpida.cz or via the form on the website www.elpida.cz.

The line is establishing itself as a stable and positively perceived service for the elderly by professionals and lay people alike. It has a firm place in the network of psychosocial services.

A very important event in February 2006 with a society-wide impact was undoubtedly the participation of the NFE and the Golden Line in the campaign "No to Violence!" .

Elpida Golden Sheets transformed into a magazine Elán Plus . With the name, the format and concept of the magazine changed. The periodicity of the magazine was set as a bi-monthly magazine with an online version to be published every month.

10 186 seniors called the Hotline. The issues they contact the Line with are already for several years: loneliness, isolation, loss of a loved one.

Opening new advanced courses (e.g. Digital Photography, Working with Laptop). During the year, 1361 students completed the courses. seniors. In June we respond to the demand from seniors for more activities and offer new new educational and counselling activities. According to the Act on Social Services No. 108/2006 Coll. We register a new social service Senior Centre Elpida.

Vital Magazine has completed its first full year. We bring you interviews with H. Illnerová, M. Janek, L. Reinerová, V. Havel, E. Fučíková, I. Medek, Z. Mahler, M. Cerna. In October for the first time in October, we're asking readers to volunteer to support the magazine. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

The line has gone busiest year ever of its existence, with a total of 27,225 callers. Among them were not only seniors, but increasingly their children and other caregivers.

We're moving from Prague 10 to Prague 4. We are publishing a new textbook Internet school for seniors . 2 130 seniors visited the centre.

Talk about old age: Leave my grandmother alone! - Together with the O2 Foundation and the media agency VCCP we are launching the first big society-wide campaign for a positive perception of old age in the Czech Republic.

Senior Citizens Line comes up with an awareness campaign "Afraid of forgetting?" about the symptoms of dementia.

The Elpida Centre hosts premieres of lectures and courses or , a nationwide series of financial literacy courses for seniors Money in Old Age.

Elpida Tour 2011/ 2012 - The Elpida Choir and Please the Trees continue their series of concerts. Published by Elpida and Please the Trees CD , we are creating a joint video clips "Song" and "Let the Wind".

Elpida starts cooperation with fashion website Fashionbook.cz , photographer Bet Orten is preparing Grand Chic editorial with five selected chorus girls and members of the band Please the Trees.

Starts the society-wide campaign Kájo, don't call! campaign to raise funds to expand the line's daily service from 8am to 8pm.

Elpida is the main partner of the project of philosopher Jan Sokol "Seniors write Wikipedia" which aims to motivate seniors to write and edit articles.

VITAL magazine read by more than 60 thousand people and is the most read magazine for seniors in the Czech Republic.

Second year of Old's cool ReFestival offered a varied week-long program.

With the financial support of the Telefónica Foundation, the project Buy a book , thanks to which we sell books from our antiquarian bookshop in 17 Prague and 4 non-Prague cafés.

Knitters from the project Socks from grandma recycled 80 kilos of wool in a year. Before Christmas, Elpida sold almost 500 pairs of socks from 39 knitters.

We are opening a new branch - ELPIDA POINT - in Madridská Street in Prague 10.

Through a series of lectures on migration we want to contribute to a greater understanding of the phenomenon migration.

I fourth edition of OLD'S COOL 2016 was worth it . We presented exceptional senior personalities, role models and great life stories, intergenerational projects and inspiring ideas.

Emerging The Dementia Ten Commandments (10 points to help you cope with a loved one's serious illness) and The Carer's Ten Commandments (10 tips for coping with the challenges of caring for your loved one.)

In the framework of OLD´S COOL 2018 we present an exhibition on the beautiful, difficult and intimate theme of Mother and Daughter. We publish OLD'S COOL Magazine which charts Elpida's five years of collaboration with photographer Bet Orten and journalist and stylist Veronika Ruppert. All exhibitions have one thing in common - the main stars are senior men and women.

Grandma's socks have a new e-shop ponozkyodbabicky.cz, 203 knitters from all over the Czech Republic, 14 thousand pairs of socks sold, 700 pairs of socks for the homeless in cooperation with the Salvation Army, we organized 6 knitting workshops for the public in Prague, Olomouc and Košice.

Emerging Elpida to the house - an online educational and cultural programme for the elderly. Clients can now attend their favourite activities from the comfort of their own homes.

Together with Transitions we are starting a new three-year project Media and digital education in towns and cities through local organisations and institutions, funded by the EEA and Norway Grants under the Active Citizens Fund.

Senior Citizens Line significantly boosts traffic in response to increased caller demand due to the coronavirus epidemic. In cooperation with Scouts, it is also helping with the delivery of supplies and the registration of seniors for vaccinations.

During the pandemic, we distributed more than 5,000 free issues of VITAL magazine to care facilities or to lonely seniors through cities and towns and their outreach care services.

Individuals and companies have purchased 2,500 pairs of Grandma's Socks, which we distributed to seniors in nursing homes homes. In turn, a total of 380 pairs warmed the feet of the homeless.

In cooperation with the O2 Foundation and Seznam.c portal we have launched the Don't Risk! with Jan Rosák . to better equip seniors with simple tools that they can use to recognize themselves, when someone is trying to manipulate them.