The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS)has begun to lend a Service home care specialized throughout the Island with which care is promoted by professionals for people in situations of vulnerability without having to leave your home. The insular president, Pedro Martín; the Minister of Social Action, Marián Franquet; the IASS manager, Yazmina León, and the head of the Institute’s Dependency Unit, Beatriz Durán.
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 social and health sector who will act according to the needs required in each case,” he said.
The president stressed that this new home care service is complementary and improves 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 assessed. 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 the appropriate care, they had possibilities and wanted to remain in their homes,” he added.
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 are reaching out to the entire Island, so that people who so wish can stay in their homes for as long as possible and enjoy their families and their surroundings,” she indicated.
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 and the Government of the Canary Islands and the another 54% are own funds of the insular 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 one with 50 seats, divided equally between the northern zone, including La Laguna, and the south, including Santa Cruz.
