Team members: Matthew Evans, Amanda Hart Jasmine Kumar, Daniela Maniscalchi
PriHEMAC is an organization that works with the elderly community to provide care and services to them. They are located in Oyo State, Nigeria. PriHEMAC offers many things to those in need, such as professional primary caregivers,trained elderly friendly ambassadors, in-home nurses, monetary aid, safe companionship, and partnerships with other organizations to provide food and other services. PriHEMAC offers high quality care by having its own training facility run by experts in their fields. Specifically, PriHEMAC has five stages put into place to train their caregivers and elderly friendly ambassadors, so that their organization members are elderly friendly. These stages include meeting and recognizing the social, emotional, and physical needs of the elderly, collecting data regarding the elderly’s health, celebrating the elderly, and more. Other than providing elderly friendly training, PriHEMAC hopes to change the narrative of the cultural view towards the elderly in Nigeria, so that they could achieve an elderly friendliness at the community and hopefully state level. PriHEMAC’s efforts have helped progress achieving SDG’s 1,2,3,10,16 and 17.
For our project, we made a magazine for PriHEMAC that can be printed and distributed or accessed online. In this magazine, we talked about a lot of the issues the elderly community face in everyday life and especially now during the COVID – 19 pandemic. In this magazine, we related back to PriHEMAC to show how they are addressing these issues and what they are doing to help this community. We wanted to offer PriHEMAC a source to display the knowledge and services they offer and to be able to promote their organization while providing important information to empowered stakeholders within Nigeria. We hope our magazine serves as a useful resource for the elderly regarding COVID-19 prevention and signs and symptoms, and we hope the elderly recognize that PriHEMAC is a wonderful resource for them to rely on for support and care. Thank you to PriHEMAC and SUNY COIL Global Commons for allowing us to have such an enriching educational and vocational experience. Special thanks to PriHEMAC’s Program Officer Gideon Adeniyi, Executive Director Dr. Martins Ogundeji, and PriHEMAC’s staff for helping us create this magazine!
Link to PriHEMAC website: PriHEMAC – Primary Health Care and Health Management
If you are having trouble viewing the Magazine above you can use this link to our Web-Magazine: prihemac.pdf
Dr.Martins Ogundeji, Executive Director of PriHEMAC 
Gideon Adeniyi, Program Officer 
Picture of trained experts/elderly friendly ambassadors of PriHEMAC 
Cover Page of Magazine 
Bio page of students/Project Supervisors
“PriHEMAC Magazine” by Matthew Evans, Amanda Hart Jasmine Kumar, Daniela Maniscalchi, SUNY COIL Global Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
