Hard times

Our KAPI centre is in trouble and, as so often seems to be the case these days, the root problem is a financial one. We are a community based, open care centre for older people, supplying health, social, and recreational services to our members, and, although one of over 250 such centres throughout the country, we do have some special characteristics that make our situation somewhat different from the others.

Firstly, we were and continue to be regarded as one of the prototype KAPI centres that were piloted in the late 1970s and acted as a model on which the whole …