The City of Cartagena has worked with the Federation of Senior Centers and District of Cartagena and the celebration of the Fourth Conference on Safety and the Elderly, on November 11, in which older people have learned from other basic needs to avoid scams scammers professionals.
Under the slogan Safety and the Elderly, the activity is held in the auditorium of the National University of Distance Education which opened for Social Care Councillor of the City of Cartagena, Antonio Calderon.
This conference served to teach safety to the elderly to avoid being deceived by how professional scammers who come to the houses as false commercial vendors or gas or telephone.
Those involved in providing these classes were the strength of the local police, National Guard and Civil.
Security is one of the basic needs that every human being should be covered to achieve well-being and full development.
Throughout our lives, the areas of security that attempts to fill vary and are determined inter alia by age and time of our lives we go through.
Thus, the safety of a young person is focused on labor issues, personal achievement, while in the case of older people is based more on achieving a safe environment have to let you enjoy the years of life that are not large smoothly.
Although the elderly are more likely to have accidents or become victims of crime, speak very little care and security that should have these seniors, however the older segment has been growing steadily over the last two decades, and advances the figure will continue to grow, so it is important to work on their quality of life is better every day.
These are the reasons why the Federation of Senior Centers and Cartagena and Region, in collaboration with the Department of Social Policy, has organized this day of Safety and the Elderly.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena