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Adoración Peñas, councilor of the municipal group of IU-Verdes de Lorca has reported having received complaints from users of the Day Center for the Elderly of Lorca, located in the residential Miguel Angel, relating to an alleged deception in the trips that the center organizes.

The mayor has been able to verify that these are not baseless complaints, since she has been able to personally corroborate how the travel proposals offered to pensioners are priced far above their real value.

Peñas has ensured that, after requesting budgets from different travel agencies for the same activity and destination, the prices sometimes differ by 50% less than that offered by the Day Center itself, a question that those affected have brought to the attention of the management of the center and of the General Directorate of Care for the Elderly of the IMAS, without obtaining a satisfactory response from either of them.

Specifically, he gave as an example a trip to the Alpujarra and Sierra de Granada that the Day Center offered for € 130 per person and that in various travel agencies budgeted at € 70, but ensures that it is not an isolated case.

From the training remember that pensioners are one of the most socially and economically punished groups in the last years of crisis, with a significant loss and continued purchasing power and supporting precarious pensions that sometimes suppose the livelihood of entire families.

Peñas recalls that day centers for the elderly are socio-community resources that exist to prevent, improve and increase the quality of life of our elders.

Specialized facilities where a group of professionals is dedicated to the prevention, treatment and care of the elderly, without disassociating themselves from their environment and reference environment, where in addition to specialized therapies, various activities, having the service of dining room or cafeteria, they perform various leisure activities such as excursions, short visits to places near the center or intergenerational meetings, etc.

It is for all the reasons that from IU-Greens require the government team to investigate this issue and intermediate with the General Directorate for the elderly in order to clarify the facts and that pensioners are not injured by paying for a service designed especially for them a price much higher than its real cost.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca