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The Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities, Thomas Violante, visited today the elderly social center 'Cartagena III' and residence of seniors 'Virgen del Mar'.
After concluding his tour, he announced that his department plans to expand to 40 the number of seats currently held by concerted residence, up to 107. A financing this total capacity of the Community will allocate 1,124,000 euros.
Violante Thomas said: "This expansion in the residence" Virgen del Mar 'and opening Source Cubas, which will feature 120 residential care places and 40 service day center for older people affected or not Alzheimer's, aims to answer to the great demand in the city. "
The Ministry allocated a total of 5.9 million euros to the hiring of 951 seats in nursing homes, telecare and day care centers in the municipality this year.
Moreover, the Instituto Murciano Social Action (IMAS) has 17 social centers for the elderly in different municipalities that serve a total of 102,450 members.
In the municipality of Cartagena are two of these centers, which have a total of 21,214 members.
Over the past year, they scheduled gerontogimnasia workshops, crafts, painting, poetry, theater and intergenerational exchanges and other activities in these areas.
In the tour of the social center of seniors 'Cartagena III', Violante Thomas stressed "the importance of active aging, whose promotion is one of the axes that govern our work and the way forward in everything that concerns older people, because we are giving more life to your years. "
Source: CARM
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