The Elderly Area of the Arona City Council has reopened the doors of five of the eleven centers aimed at this group that were closed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and that had not reopened since then
These are the centers of Las Galletas, Buzanada, Guargacho, Las Rosas and Parque La Reina, which will allow dozens of residents to have a meeting place and carry out different activities. For their part, those that were already open are those of El Fraile, Valle San Lorenzo, Cabo Blanco, Arona Casco, La Camella and Los Cristianos.
This improvement has been possible thanks to the last social employment program launched in Arona on December 16 with 73 new workers out of the 116 that make up the Arona Social Employment Program 2022-2023, highly oriented to reinforce areas such as Social and Senior Services, reported the City Council.
This fact is what has allowed closed centers to reopen, in addition to reinforcing services such as home help, which now has seven more workers, or aid processing, which now has another eight administrative assistants.
The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, described the reopening of the five centers as “fundamental”, “both because of the need of the elderly and their families, who had been waiting for too long and asking for a solution to this situation that now, for end, see the light.
For her part, Councilor Ruth Lorenzo stressed that “the elderly are a vulnerable group, who need meeting places and activities in which to maintain activity and, therefore, opening these centers as a public service was key, in the same way in the same way as domiciliary help or the processing of public aid itself”.
