Thanks to the agreement signed between Health and Social Services and the Extremadura Red Cross, this Community will develop a new telecare program in rural areas. With a budget of 3.6 million euros, it will begin to be implemented in nine towns, with plans to extend it to other municipalities.
It is expected that this new care resource will reach 4,000 users by the end of 2023and intends to promote the stay of vulnerable people in their homeswith programs personalized advanced telecare aimed at the population over 65 years of age, especially those over 80 years of ageresidents in the Rural environmentpreferably, and whose homes will be endowed, by Red Crossof the necessary technological infrastructure to access the services provided in the program.
The agreement signed between the Juhta and the Extremadura Red Cross contemplates a budget of 3.6 million euros and, in principle, it will be launched in the towns of Mirandilla, Valdelacalzada, Torrejoncillo, Eljas, Guadalupe, Esparragosa de la Serena, Holguera and Moralejawith the forecast of extending it to other municipalities.
The Second Vice President and Minister of Health and Social Services, José María Vergeles, and the President of the Extremadura Red Cross, Jesús Palo, have signed this agreement to implement a new advanced telecare model in Extremadura
As stated by the second vice president and Minister of Health and Social Services, Jose Maria Vergelesduring the presentation of this program, this initiative “pursues that the Older people stay as long as possible in their homes providing services that allow combat loneliness and isolation non-elected and uprooting, avoiding the rapid aging that is observed in the case of elderly institutionalized in residences, as well as greater control of chronic diseases”.
And to achieve this, this telecare program contemplates the involvement in the care of these people of both social services and health services. “The aim is for these people to receive the service they need at the time they need it”stressed Vergeles.
The Personalized Advanced Telecare (TAP) includes, in addition to basic telecare services, complementary technological supports inside or outside the home, or in both cases, as well as interconnection with information services and reference professionals in the health and social systems, developing processes and action protocols based on the situation of need for care detected in each person.
The agreement includes various performance programs in the field of Personalized Advanced Telecare. One of them focuses on people who live alone and have little or no social support, allocating 800 personalized telecare devices. another goes to people with chronic illnesses who need regular health control, with 1,200 monitoring devices.
The third program is aimed at caring for the elderly in situation of abuse or at risk of being so, which will be provided with 500 devices that meet their needs. He fourth program provides for the monitoring of the social and health situation of people with cognitive impairment or who suffer from a sensory disabilitywith another 500 technological devices.
The technological equipment that will be used in each of the four adapted telecare programs will complement the care through voice devices, already deployed in the autonomous community. «These TAP programs will accommodate the devices to the technological advances that are being improved or known»pointed out the president of the Extremadura Red Cross, jesus stick.
will lead the management of this program. Volunteers from this entity, municipal workers and SEPAD will be in charge of explaining to the users how telecare works, which will be installed in homes, with features and benefits adapted to personal needs. This use of the devices will also contribute, according to Vergeles, «to reduce that which affects the elderly«.