Summer Activities - 01.08.2008

The Centres for the Provision of Care to the Elderly organise summer activities for users.

The Council of Tenerife set in motion the Project for Intervention in Centres for the Provision of Care to the Elderly in various locations throughout the island. The Project consists of specialised day services for the sociocultural revitalisation of those elderly persons who exhibit a certain degree of dependency, thereby enabling them to remain in the areas in which they live whilst participating in activities that increase their quality of life.

The initiative forms a part of the Ansina Program for Revitalisation and Social Intervention and operates in accordance with the strategic guidelines and lines of action outlined in Tenerife’s Insular Plan for Social and Health Services.

The activities take place during the morning period and are aimed at improving the quality of life of users, achieving the improved physical, psychological, social and functional well-being of the elderly people who attend.

The project also seeks to ensure that the elderly remain in their usual surroundings with the highest possible quality of life, offering a series of individualised and social services in the centres for the elderly and supporting measures that facilitate the continuance and improvement of the autonomy of the elderly person in all areas (functional, psychological and social, with attention to the profile and unique characteristics of the individual in question).

The Centres for the Provision of Care to the Elderly, where the project will be implemented, are set up as community resources that employ the installations of the associations for the elderly, whilst presenting a more specialised approach, both in terms of the profile of the individuals who attend and the activities that are set in motion.

During the summer months, the project follows a specific program, which includes gymnasium in the Bajamar swimming pools, various sociocultural visits and workshops (gymnasium, memory, handicrafts, psychomotricity, aesthetician and leisure activities).

The users of these centres are people over 75 years of age with light to moderate levels of dependency, but who nevertheless are capable of carrying out day-to-day activities independently and without aid. They live alone within the area taken in by the centre for the elderly.