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The mayor, Luis Barcala, at the inauguration of the day on the elderly. T.A.
Alicante to Double Budget for Elderly Care

Alicante to Double Budget for Elderly Care

The City Council will create more places and activities in the 19 centers aimed at this group

José Vicente Pérez Pardo

Alicante

Miércoles, 23 de octubre 2024, 13:10

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The mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, has announced that the City Council "will double in 2025 the budget of the senior centers to create more places, programs, and activities" in the municipal budgets that he is negotiating these days with opposition groups. The draft of the public accounts is expected to double the resources allocated to senior centers (from 282,000 euros to 588,000 euros), which will allow offering more places and developing more activities.

Alicante has 19 senior centers, with 27,000 users, which represents a third of the seniors living in Alicante. The programs developed in them are aimed at promoting active aging that benefits physical and mental health from the age of 60 and are also important to avoid unwanted loneliness.

Barcala expressed these views during the celebration, this Wednesday, of the first Senior Day, 'Unwanted Loneliness', organized by the Alicante City Council at the Felicidad Sánchez Community Center, with the aim of raising awareness about this issue affecting part of the elderly population of the municipality and addressing possible solutions and initiatives to alleviate it.

In addition to the mayor, the councilors for Seniors, Nayma Beldjilali, and for Social Welfare, Begoña León, as well as municipal technicians, experts, and seniors participated in the day, debating in two round tables about unwanted loneliness and how to combat it from the public administration and social entities. In addition, the short film 'Maruja' was screened for the first time, which is part of the campaign launched by the City Council against this issue and clearly, directly, and emotionally reflects the situation many of our seniors live in.

'Keep them in mind'

"The campaign I mentioned when we celebrated the International Day of Older Persons in the Blue Hall on the 1st officially starts," Barcala explained to the attendees of the conference. "With the campaign 'Keep them in mind' we want to raise awareness in society about one of the biggest problems facing the elderly, unwanted loneliness, since the first step to solving a problem is to admit it, diagnose it, and start working," he stated.

For the mayor, "tackling loneliness is everyone's business, we all must do our part, sometimes with small gestures and others, like what we have to do as an administration, with global ideas and initiatives that help curb this global epidemic." In this regard, he emphasized that "it is necessary for all administrations to orient their services and policies to meet the needs of the elderly" and defended that in the Alicante City Council "we are demonstrating with actions that this is the mandate of the elderly and housing."

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