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The Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities, Thomas Violante, with the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, today visited the homes of elderly San Diego and Caser.

After the visit, she stressed that the Community "is spending more than 8 million euros to care for the elderly in the municipality, through the concert of places in residences, day centers, telecare service and home help."

The Department continues to expand the places in residences and day centers to strengthen care for the elderly.

"We have been created in the first nine months of 2016 to 632 new jobs, which means that we exceeded the record figure of more than 4,000 seats, a total of 4,080 seats between day centers and residences, compared to the 3,448 we had in 2015, "said Thomas Violante.

Specifically, residences that today visited has expanded the concert up to 15 seats in Residence Caser in April, and another 15 more in San Diego in May, so the Murciano Institute of Social Action (IMAS) and 177 seats funds in these two centers.

The Minister congratulated the directors and professionals in these residences, "because they continue working with great dedication to improve the quality of care for the elderly, increasingly specialized in these centers" so that "go from being care centers to be centers where the main point is people care needs relationship and therapeutic needs. "

Among the improvements he has launched the Ministry of Family, has also carried out the expansion of home help service to all municipalities in the region can have this service under the same conditions.

Lorca City Council has already shown its intention to join the regional agreement, and the municipality 156 people are benefiting from this service.

In the summary of all the services offered in Lorca for care for the elderly, to 308 people are benefiting from the funding of places in the residence Sunday Sastre, residence Caser, residence San Diego, Downtown Day Alzheimer Lorca and downtown Poncemar Day Foundation.

Source: CARM