The Plan for Seniors Tenerife It begins with the design of 130 collective participation workshops that will be held in the coming months in the 31 municipalities of the Island. The objective is for the people themselves to propose, together with the rest of the social, economic and political agents, the island strategies in the matter for the next five years. The project is part of the Conecta Mayores program, created to promote social inclusion and active aging with actions and activities tailored to the needs and demands.
This program, managed from the Social Action, Citizen Participation and Diversity area of the Cabildo de Tenerife, pursues the objective of providing older people with a set of island strategies adapted to the realities that converge in the group. Also that they feel identified for having actively participated in its preparation, with the freedom and autonomy that corresponds to them.
The Plan for the Elderly proposes tackling quality in aging from different prisms such as mobility, accessibility, equality, participation, culture, education, tourism, sport, the environment or foreign action. This, therefore, is equivalent to a transversal and comprehensive nature of the initiative.
The phases that comprise this program can be summarized in three major milestones: the planning and coordination of the workshops; their execution, which will last approximately six months; and the definitive elaboration of the Plan for its future implementation. A work strategy that sets the lines to guide actions in this area for the next five years.
In the initial workshops, in addition to the protagonists, social, economic and political agents who know and work with the group will participate to contribute projects and ideas to be included.
The foundations of this roadmap deal mainly with the defense of the rights of the elderly and their autonomy in decision-making; in collaboration between administrations, with a leading role for town halls, given their closeness to this group, and in the transversality of matters that concern aging and territorial balance.
All the implementation phases of the Plan will be guided by a communication and participation campaign in which all data will be reported and updated on a daily basis through a specialized website, in addition to the traditional communication channels. This Plan does not forget the digital divide; For this reason, work will be carried out along parallel lines, adapting the communication at all times to the population to which it is addressed.
