SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 14. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The candidate of the Canary Islands Coalition for the Presidency of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has announced that if he becomes president he will create the General Directorate for the Elderly, Participation and Unwanted Loneliness to “restore the dignity and leading role to the elderly that they should never have lose after the pandemic”.
In a meeting with the elderly held in Guamasa, in the municipality of La Laguna, Fernando Clavijo advanced that this General Directorate “will be a transversal area that will allow the coordinated execution of care and attention policies to guarantee and promote the rights of our elderly” .
Clavijo acknowledged that four years have been “very difficult and very scary” for the elderly and affirmed that the administrations, the Government of the Canary Islands, “have not been able to live up to it; they have not corresponded to everything that the elderly have given us “.
For this reason, he insisted that the elderly “will recover the leading role that they should never have lost with a Canarian Coalition Government, not only with a specific area that will allow coordinated care and attention policies to be executed, but to guarantee and promote the rights of the elderly and improve their quality of life, in which the empowerment of the elderly and people with disabilities is promoted”.
In the same way, the nationalist candidate marked as a priority objective the recovery of the Sociosanitary Infrastructure Plan that “CC left ready in the previous term, with the planning, the agreement signed with the Cabildos and the financial file and that the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres put it in a drawer”.
Clavijo advocated “closing the gap in the Pact of Flowers in socio-sanitary matters with work and planning.” “That is what we nationalists will do from minute one, work so that the Islands have the socio-sanitary places that our elders need, which should have been launched these four years, and prioritize the planning and execution of the next infrastructure plan health care of the Canary Islands”, he added.
The candidate assured that the nationalists will make “a determined commitment to reinforce the quality and volume of professional home care and telecare services; they will promote specific measures to guarantee” the right and access to public health for all older people on an equal basis with the rest of citizens”; as well as they will include “geriatric services in hospitals to guarantee health care for the elderly and implement liaison units between hospital geriatric services and residential centers for the elderly”.
Another of the nationalists’ proposals is the reform of the Law for the promotion of personal autonomy and care for people in a situation of dependency, agreed upon with all administrations to promote personal autonomy and adapt benefits to the new reality. The professionalization of the sector, the promotion of volunteering and the support for innovation and new technologies in order to improve the empowerment of the elderly are some of the axes that the Canary Coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands will promote.
ANSINA RECOVERY.
For her part, the candidate for the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, recognized as one of her priorities the recovery of the ANSINA program starting next May 28: “It is something that we owe to the elderly on this island, a program that eliminated the Socialist Party as soon as it arrived at the Cabildo de Tenerife, subjecting our elders to abandonment”. For this reason, she insisted on returning the program “which has contributed so much to the elderly so that they have activities to fight loneliness and above all so that they are treated with dignity on this island.”
The head of the Parliamentary list for the Tenerife constituency, Ana Oramas, admitted that she was “very excited” because people recognized the work done by her in Madrid and told her “you have fought for the Canary Islands and now you are going to fight from Canarisd”. In the same way, he agreed to point out the setback that has occurred these four years in care policies for the elderly with the excuse of the pandemic and advocated returning them to their rightful place and giving them the leading role that they should never have lost because ” today the Canary Islands is what it is thanks to them”.
The candidate for the City Council of La Laguna, Jonathan Domínguez, stressed that in the Canary Islands Coalition they have always had a real commitment to the elderly and in the meetings they have had with them and they “cry out to recover programs like ANSINA and want to revitalization projects, as we had in previous mandates”.
Domínguez recalled that the Cabildo “has paralyzed the projects for social and health centers and the La Laguna City Council has done the same with day centers and premises for associations of the elderly.” The nationalist candidate promised to provide a day center for each district and infrastructures so that the elderly have adequate care; because the data “reveals that in La Laguna in the year 2035 more than 50% of the population will be over 50 years of age, and it is necessary to have new equipment for this age group, so it is essential to have a General Management Plan and have land to serve them in the best conditions”.
