SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 9. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS), has begun to provide a specialized home care service throughout the island that promotes care by professionals for people in vulnerable situations without having to leave your home
The insular president, Pedro Martín; the third vice president and counselor for Social Action, Marián Franquet; the manager of the IASS, Yazmina León; and the head of the Institute’s Dependency Unit, Beatriz Durán.
Pedro Martín explained that it is a personalized service that has a total of 240 places, of which 190 are for the elderly and the other 50 for people with disabilities. “It is the first service of these characteristics that is implemented in Tenerife to promote the well-being of the most vulnerable people through care by professionals from the socio-health sector who will act according to the needs required in each case,” he explained.
The president stressed that this new home care service is complementary and helps to improve the home help provided by municipalities, providing a portfolio of specialized services that did not exist until now. “Ultimately, we are looking for the person who receives the benefit to be as autonomous as possible and avoid alternatives such as moving to residences when the ideal is to continue living at home, with his family,” he added.
Along the same lines, Marián Franquet pointed out that the objective of the Cabildo with this service “is to adapt the resources to the needs of the elderly, in each of their stages”, and not the other way around. “We have come across people who have had to adapt to the services that the administrations offered them and occupy residential places when, with adequate care, they had possibilities and wanted to stay in their homes,” he commented.
The counselor emphasized the benefits that this program brings “not only to people who need care, but also to their environment and families who work as non-professional caregivers and who are offered a respite, with the peace of mind of knowing that their relatives are well cared for, at home”.
The IASS manager recalled, for her part, that this service is part of a pilot project in which a small number of 20 restricted places were enabled, mainly in the metropolitan area. “Now we reach the entire island, so that people who want to can stay in their homes for as long as possible and enjoy their families and their surroundings,” she said.
Both she and the person in charge of the Dependency Unit explained that the development of this program entails the hiring of 110 socio-health professionals and highlighted the good reception that the service is having as well as the technical complexity that its implementation has entailed, both for the characteristics of the service provided as well as the people to whom it is addressed.
Awarded to the company Clece for a period of two years, the Specialized Home Care service has financing of 6,331,546 euros, of which 46% corresponds to the Dependency Agreement signed by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands and the other 54 percent are own funds provided by the Island Corporation.
The positions of this service have been granted to people who have been recognized as a position for the Promotion of Autonomy within the dependency lists. In addition, the IASS Dependency Unit has reserved a small percentage of the places to deal with emergency cases.
The portfolio of services that each person receives, according to their needs, includes rehabilitation, health promotion, psychosocial support, physiotherapy, active ageing, socio-community integration and personal care.
Two batches have been made: one for the elderly, in which 90 places have been allocated to the metropolitan area, 60 to the north and 40 to the south; and a second batch of 50 parking spaces, divided equally between the northern area, including La Laguna, and the southern area, including Santa Cruz.
