The Councilor for Social Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Marián Franquet, has met with the associations of the elderly in the southeast of Tenerife to present them with the program of leisure and free time activities that the Cabildo has promoted through the municipalities of the Island. This meeting has also served to publicize the new program under which the Island Corporation intends to combine all the actions carried out for the elderly from each of the island areas, with the aim of improving their quality of life, their integration social and health, Conecta Mayores.
Franquet explained that “we have carried out an ambitious program based on prevention and healthy living, but the work has not finished, now we are getting down to work to bring it to older women and men throughout the Island and who know so much the activities and services that they can access, as well as the objectives pursued by each of the actions that we carry out”.
At the meeting, the different proposals of the municipalities were presented to invest the more than 119,000 euros that the Island Institution has distributed to promote active leisure for the elderly of Candelaria, Güimar, Arafo, Fasnia and Arico. The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliuotta, and the insular director of Innovation, Planning and Social Action Strategy, Ascensión Bacallado, were in charge of clarifying issues such as the distribution of these funds, the type of activities to be developed or the dates on which they will take place.
The counselor also put on the table some structural changes that entail “new ways of doing things”, as is the case of the personalized attention points for the elderly in the Citizen Attention Offices, which seek to facilitate electronic processing in the administrations public.
