Social Rights
DESCRIPTION
Support for Social Integration of Lonely Elderly People is a project that aims to evaluate and provide support for elderly people who are lonely due to unwanted solitude, by means of a specialised team and through individual and home-based assistance as well as group activities of a preventive nature.
This municipal resource is intended to be one of the available benefit mechanisms that allow elderly people to remain in their own homes under the best possible conditions
It’s a service that aims to prevent, detect and provide assistance with unwanted isolation and loneliness for people over 65 and, to a lesser degree in exceptional cases, for people at high risk of social isolation.
OBJECTIVES
- Enable and empower elderly people to manage their loneliness and prevent negative consequences
- Strengthen relational skills through supportive, educational group interventions aimed at social cognitive training and building social skills
- Put a stop to any situations of loneliness, working to eliminate or reduce its effects (anxiety, depression, stress, etc.), minimise its consequences and foster social relations
- Facilitate acceptance by the elderly person in question of the social resources necessary to reverse or mitigate negative situations associated with loneliness
- For elderly people at risk of isolation, take an approach that allows the situation to be steered towards their social inclusion
- Collect and update information on actions taken to tackle loneliness and on the people assisted, creating an activity data set
- Evaluate the various actions taken, including specific aspects of activities as well as their outcome and impact
DURATION
The project began on 1 June 2021 and has a duration of 24 months.
INVESTMENT
2021 (June - November): 231,105.22 euros
2022: 465,630.09 euros
2023 (December – May): 234,846.80 euros
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Loneliness in the Elderly >>
