Happy ending for Cecilio and Candelaria. The Cabildo de Tenerife has confirmed that they have granted him a place in a residence as he is his only caregiver, despite also being sick, it has taken effect and they have already granted him a social health center in La Laguna, the municipality in which they reside. The woman is expected to enter next week.
This octogenarian canary a few weeks ago turned to Canarian Television where he told his story. For eleven years, he took care of his wife every day with a pension of 650 euros per month and he used half to pay for the day center where his wife goes and which is the only moment of respite, who only lives for her.
to the microphones of Radio Television Canaria (RTVC) He assured that he does not know if in the next few days they will cut off the electricity and water supply that he stopped paying in January “because he cannot.”
He will go to see her every day
Now Cecilio affirms through tears that he knows that she will be very well cared for and that she will not lack for anything, but he recognizes that the distance and loneliness will not be easy to manage. Of course, he is clear that he is not going to stop going to see her for a single day. He will take her bus and come to her center to be with her and accompany her as he has always done, since they met back in 1958.
“I have thought about getting out of the way,” he said then, overwhelmed by the pain of this disease, which takes a little more from the person you love every day, and the financial anguish of having to live on just 300 euros a month. .
The Councilor for Social Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Marián Franquet, has reported that the case has been resolved so quickly because the “social emergency” of this couple of octogenarians was evident and it was also necessary to correct the administrative and bureaucratic error that was has produced with Cecilio Hernández and his wife.
Deaths on the waiting list
During the first semester of 2022, 23,837 people died in Spain on dependency waiting lists, 10,101 people pending resolution of the degree of dependency and 13,736 without having been able to exercise their rights derived from the status of person in a situation of dependency. The increase in the number of applications, in these six months, has been 287% compared to the same period in 2021 and 12% compared to all of last year. They also suffer an increase compared to the same period in 2021, but much more content, the ratings (+17%) and the people recognized with rights (+5%).
The autonomous community with the highest percentage of potentially dependent population in applications and assessments is Andalusia and the lowest is Galicia. The Community that applies the dependency scale with greater rigidity is Extremadura (28.2% of applicants do not obtain a degree) and the one with the greatest flexibility is Galicia (only 10.4% do not obtain a degree).
The communities with the largest number of people pending to receive benefits are Catalonia (28.9%) and the Canary Islands (23.8%), and those with the least are Castilla y León (0.14%) and Galicia (5.2%). . Canarias is the community that has increased the number of beneficiaries in this semester the most, 3,115 (11.6%). Cantabria and the Basque Country did not even maintain the replacement rate.
The Autonomous Community that takes the longest days to resolve a benefit or service, from when the request is received is Canary Islands 993, and those that least Castilla y León 118. The average time nationwide is 378 days.
