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The Minister of Social Policy, Women and Migration, Joaquín Bascuñana, launched this morning in Yecla two new services for citizens dependent on their department: the Department of Assessment and Orientation, Handicap, and the expansion of Day Care Center, for people affected by Alzheimer's.
With the former, the inhabitants of Jumilla and Yecla no longer have to travel to Murcia to carry out the assessment that enables them to access to obtain the degree of disability.
The new Assessment and Counseling Service, located on Calle San José, will be devoted to assessing the situations of disability to determine the degree of disability, rating scales to determine the assistance of another person and the existence of mobility difficulties for public transport and guidance on potential for rehabilitation.
Of the 56,465 inhabitants of the region of the Altiplano, the number of applications for receiving disability benefits has been 3,306 over the past five years, representing an annual average of 662.
Given the remoteness of recognition, the regional government through the Ministry, decided to solve the problem by creating the Service, in collaboration with the city of Yecla, who has given the necessary space in the current Social Services Center.
So from now on will be in these new facilities where an assessment team, moved from Murcia, attend once a week (Tuesday) to residents in the towns of Jumilla and Yecla, which no longer have to travel to capital to qualify for these benefits.
The Assessment and Guidance Service of the Ministry has three centers in the region, with eight teams located in Cartagena (two), Lorca (a) and Murcia (five), comprising a doctor, a psychologist and social worker.
Last 2008, the three centers received 41,068 applications, of which 20,732 correspond to assess the degree of disability and other certifications and reports.
Expansion of Day Care Center
As for the new Day Care Service for People with Alzheimer 'The Herratillas', it is remodeling a building area of operation since 2004, conducted by the need to expand places.
To this end, the Community granted 277,799 euros to the City Council through the Plan of Action for Older Persons.
The opening of this new area in the center of an increase of 14 beds for people with Alzheimer's or other dementias, which currently 'The Herratillas' has 44 seats.
In addition, the municipality has yeclano other day stays 20 seats to serve the elderly in the Day Centre Yecla, Murcia Institute under the Social Action (IMAS), and located in the Rambla, which runs from 1997.
With this expansion, the Day Care Service in the Region for Alzheimer's patients and 249 public squares sum.
Both openings, the Minister was accompanied by the mayor of Yecla, Juan Miguel Benedito, the managing director of IMAS, Miguel Angel Miranda, and the Director General of Pensions, Assessment and Inclusion Programs, John Brown.
Source: CARM
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