Situated in Tangier, Morocco, this Jewish nursing home has about 16 residents and is maintained by the Tangier community with JDC’s help.

Casablanca Jewish Home for the Aged - Maintained by the Jewish community in Casablanca with help from JDC, this Moroccan facility is home to 51 residents, with 60 additional elderly benefiting from services provided at the day center operating out of this spacious institution. Recreational and therapeutic activities initiated and supervised by JDC local staff and recent JDC Jewish Service Corps volunteers include exercise and physiotherapy sessions, music programs, holiday celebrations, social events, and excursions. OSE furnishes 24-hour medical supervision and nursing care as needed at an in-house facility set up a few years ago with JDC’s support.

OSE is the primary health care provider in Morocco for needy and elderly Jews, as well as for an increasing number of middle income Jewish families who lack health insurance and can no longer afford the cost of private care. JDC helps finance OSE’s activities and has encouraged it to upgrade medical services at its Casablanca clinic and initiate new screening programs and preventive efforts. JDC works with OSE to address the needs of elderly Jews in the provinces, and, together with the Casablanca community, to provide new home care services for welfare clients in Casablanca and funding for an emergency medical treatment program. OSE provides health services—including vaccinations—for children in the Jewish schools, and it furnishes residents of the Jewish old age home in Casablanca with 24-hour medical care at an in-house facility set up with JDC’s support.

An important part of Jewish community welfare services in various countries in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia, the winter relief program helps beneficiaries—mostly elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors and also impoverished children—purchase warm clothing, blankets, and non-perishable foods and pay their home heating and utility bills.