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The Minister of Family and Equality of Opportunities, Violante Tomás, together with the mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez, visited today the social center of elderly people of the municipality and announced that "we are going to expand with five places the attention in the day center to People with intellectual disabilities in the locality to respond to the needs of the citizens of Mazarrón, to which we will allocate 15,000 euros. "
The Institute Murciano de Acción Social (IMAS) funds with 405,498 euros the services for people with disabilities in this municipality.
Of these, 104,335 are allocated to the center for early childhood development and care, which has 240 users, and 300,000 euros to the 29 places of the day center for people with intellectual disabilities.
The center for people with disabilities provides assistance services in basic activities of daily living, transportation and maintenance.
In addition, it develops intervention programs on a personal, social, family and occupational level, as well as counseling services to the user and their family and prevention.
Day care center for elderly people and home help
Likewise, the IMAS allocated 162.808 euros to finance 20 places in the day center for senior citizens of Mazarrón.
In addition, 64 people receive the tele-assistance service.
Tomás advanced that "soon we will sign with the City council of Mazarrón an agreement by which the consistory joins to the Regional service of help at home and that will allow 12 people to receive the benefits of this service".
This year, the agency's home help service has been extended to four new municipalities: Totana, Aguilas, Alhama de Murcia and San Pedro del Pinatar, in addition to the existing Abarán, Alcantarilla and Puerto Lumbreras.
During the visit to the social center of elderly people of Mazarron, which has 5,502 members, the counselor recalled that the 17 social centers of older that depend on the IMAS have opened since last month its doors every weekday.
Over the course of 2015/2016, more than 350 workshops on gerontogymics, crafts, poetry, theater, painting and intergenerational exchanges were held in the IMAS centers, among others.
More than 30,000 majors participate in one or more activities organized in these workshops.
Tomas also recalled that "in what we have been in the legislature have created 654 places for seniors in residences and day care center."
Source: CARM
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